Luke Massey

Eilers & Krejcik confirmed as Supporting Partner for Betting on Sports America

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Eilers & Krejcik, a boutique research firm focused on servicing the gaming equipment, sports, and interactive gaming sectors within the global gaming industry, has been named as a Supporting Partner for this year’s Betting on Sports America conference and exhibition. Organised by SBC Events, the event taking place at Meadowlands Exposition Center in New Jersey from 23-25 April is expected …

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iovation: Stopping fraud without degrading the experience for your ‘good’ players

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As a provider of online fraud prevention and authentication solutions to eight of the top 10 gambling platform providers worldwide, iovation is well placed to combat the growth of fraud and abuse reports across the industry. SBC News caught up with Angie White, the firm’s Product Marketing Manager, to discuss the key findings from its ‘2019 Gambling Industry Report’ and …

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BtoBet: Uberizing iGaming with a glocal approach

BtoBet

BtoBet has recently launched its latest industry report titled ‘Uberizing iGaming with a glocal approach‘, which amongst other aspects focuses on a harmonised approach for adapting technology to the highly demanding iGaming industry. This document also takes a closer look at both technological dilemmas and the need to act decisively at a local level according to the knowledge at hand, …

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Sportradar launches OTT platform A1now for A1 in Austria

A1

Sportradar has launched A1now, an over-the-top (OTT) product to service users on A1 – a leading digital and telecoms provider A1 in Austria – with both live and on-demand sports content. The OTT service will provide users with Live and Video On Demand (VOD) content across sport, music and entertainment, including matches from the Austrian Football Bundesliga – for which …

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6 of the Best – Sportradar’s Eduard Blonk

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This week’s 6 of the Best comes from Eduard Blonk, Managing Director of Global Sales at Sportradar. Based in the company’s headquarters in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Blonk manages a commercial team of over 85 sales individuals based in more than 30 locations. His team serves 1,000+ customers in over 80 countries across the betting and digital sports industry, while he …

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Customer safety drives 1xBet two-factor authentication launch

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1xBet has put customer safety at the forefront of its business by launching a two-factor authentication system to clamp down on unauthorised access to its players’ accounts. Rather than gaining access through one login and password, customers on 1xBet – winners of the Rising Star in Sports Betting Innovation at December’s SBC Awards – will now be encouraged to generate …

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Jesper Kärrbrink and Anthony Werkman talk regulations and public perceptions

SBC News Jesper Kärrbrink and Anthony Werkman talk regulations and public perceptions

Ahead of this year’s Betting on Football (19-22 March), SBC caught up with two of the event’s headline speakers – Jesper Kärrbrink (Mr Green) and Anthony Werkman (Betway). The pair will be taking part in the CEO panel, held as part of the ‘Leadership & Vision’ track on 20 March, which will be looking at the industry’s response to a …

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World Championship leads to “significant spike” for handball betting on LeoVegas

Handball

Handball has become a major growth sport for LeoVegas, particularly around major international tournaments such as the sport’s ongoing men’s World Championship. The tournament, which runs in Germany and Denmark until 27 January, holds huge appeal for punters in LeoVegas’ core markets, particularly while Germany and the Nordics – including Denmark, Norway and Sweden – remain among the favourites for …

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Red Sevens marks first Romanian launch for Altenar

Red Sevens

Sportsbook platform provider Altenar has this month powered the launch of Red Sevens, a first client for the company in the regulated market of Romania. Red Sevens (www.redsevens.ro) has subsequently become one of the first operators to launch with Altenar’s new responsive front-end sports betting client. Domenico Mazzola, Commercial Director at Altenar, said: “I’m delighted to announce that we are …

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