Cash out functionality, feed unification and bet builders are just three of the key components of the modern day sportsbook. OPTIMA CEO Jacob Lopez talks moving with the market in 2018, why differentiation has become a buzzword for the company, and how the technology behind its beefed up sportsbook stood up to the performance challenge presented by this year’s football World …

Swedish games provider Spiffbet (formerly SpiffX) has launched its hybrid Take5Live series in the Spanish market through Betsson.es. The series, which allows customers to place bets on there being a goal within the next five minutes, has been created to provide operators with an easy acquisition, cross-sell and retention tool, accessing a section of the market that traditional sportsbook games …

W2 will expand its sales and marketing efforts after securing Series A funding to the tune of £3 million from Mercia Technologies PLC and the Development Bank of Wales. This will be used to build on an exceptional 2018 for W2, a B2B software provider focused on streamlining customer acquisition and managing regulatory risk by performing real-time identity verification, anti-money …

Inbet Games has implemented a new lobby which enables bookmakers to integrate a whole collection of virtual games rather than one at a time through the API. The lobby, designed to provide incremental revenues for its online partners, can be tailored to match the look and feel for operators including Parimatch, Fonbet and Marathonbet. It means that the following virtual …

LeoVegas is “gearing up for a big 2019 of golf” after the successful introduction of new Kambi powered betting markets at last month’s Ryder Cup in France. The mobile gametech group launched a variety of markets for featured matches at the biennial golf contest – won by Thomas Bjorn’s European team by a 17½ – 10½ scoreline, including ‘hit the …

“I can’t get on to the integration fast-track with my technology supplier unless I’ve got increased turnover, and I can’t get the turnover without the content that I need to integrate.” Does this sound familiar? Conall McSorley, Business Development Director at gbet, is on hand to explain his take on the ’cause and effect’ dilemma that brings such frustration for …

Betting on Sports America, the new sports betting conference and exhibition from SBC, is so big that it is spanning two states! The conference, which is being held from 23-25 April 2019, will start off in New York City, cross the Hudson River to New Jersey, before returning to Manhattan to round things off. The event will open on Tuesday …

Claus Jansson, Head of Sales for Better Collective, takes SBC News readers on a tour of SmartBets’ European operations, as the Better Collective Spotlight falls on the firm’s Scandinavian expansion, a bonus-based challenge for Swedish operators, legal challenges to the advertising ban in Italy, and building on its growing media profile in Germany. SBC: SmartBets expanded its Scandinavian horizons last …

Strategy and tech plans employed by OPTIMA have been vindicated after the company landed a prize for Systems Management at the Oracle Excellence Innovation Awards 2018. The ceremony, which took place at the Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco on Monday, saw the sports betting and gaming solutions provider rubbing shoulders with leading worldwide tech organisations such as Cisco and Accenture. …

FeedConstruct has confirmed the launch of AJNA, an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) enhanced feed solution for live scouting data. FeedConstruct is the data feed solutions provider for BetConstruct, driven by the following motto – ‘Stream globally. Decide the price. Earn more’. AJNA, designed to provide sports data in a faster and more efficient manner, is to be …