The winners of the 2015 iGaming North America Awards were announced on the 16th April 2015 during a special luncheon at the iGaming North America conference in Las Vegas. The iGaming North America Awards were organized in partnership with iGaming Business, The Innovation Group, eGaming Brokerage, Lewis Roca Rothberger and BolaVerde.  The awards aimed to reward excellence and innovation in our sector and …

The South Australia Treasury has been tasked with preparing an online gambling tax scheme that will charge online gambling operators on the location of its customers wagering, mirroring the current UK POC charge. The treasury estimates that +70,000 South Australian have wagered using online gambling services, the agency will look to re-structure current online gambling policies in order to raise …

Labour leader Ed Miliband has reversed UK bookmaker’s odds, and is now the favourite candidate to become Prime Minister after next month’s General Election. Bookmakers Ladbrokes, Paddy Power and Betfair have placed Miliband as favourite to win on 7 May, making the labour leader the General Election market favourite for the first time since October 2014. Paddy Power has now …

Entering the last days of what has been a busy sporting April for Bet Advisor, this weeks form table has seen a consistent tipping yield of +55%, as both senior and junior Bet Advisor Tipster have performed admirably. The mixed scheduele of sporting activity witnessed in April has given Bet Advisor its best variance as this week’s form table feature …

Industry leading software and services provider Playtech, has announced today that it is looking to add a further 300 employees to its 4000 global workforce in the next eight months, as the company looks to roll-out several large scale omni-channel projects in the UK and emerging markets. Playtech has outlined that it will look to significantly grow its investment and …

Thomas Smallwood CEO SKS365 – Group GmbH , parent company of Planetwin365,  sheds insight and opinion on the current industry debate surrounding the conduct and misuse of player protection and tax issues by governments and regulators. Can an appropriate context really be set on the subject matters  which would benefit players, the industry and national governments? Taxation Noun: the act of …

The National Football League (NFL )announced today a new multi-year agreement with Sportradar US to be its exclusive distributor of comprehensive statistics to digital outlets beginning with the 2015 NFL Season. Sportradar US will become the NFL’s exclusive distributor for official real-time scores, player statistics and play-by-play data (Game Statistics and Information System/ “GSIS”) as well as the NFL’s proprietary …

Progress on Germany’s sports betting licensing procedure by the Hesse Ministry of the Interior and Sports (HMDIS) has taken a further step back as The German Sports Advisory Board (SAB) declared that it had withdrawn from discussions with the regulator. The advisory board which represents the interests of several German sporting bodies including the country’s Olympic Committee and the Bundesliga …

UK Bookmakers have placed Manchester indie rock band The Stone Roses as favourites to headline Glastonbury 2015’s Sunday night session. Glastonbury organisers are yet to confirm which act will play the festival’s closing night set on the legendary Pyramid Stage. The Stone Roses had begun last week as 12/1 outsiders to claim the closing Sunday spot, however William Hill alerted …

Trade association The Danish Online Gambling Association (DOGA) has confirmed the appointment of Betsson Denmark Managing Director Peter Weinreich Johansen as its new Chairman. Johansen will replace the outgoing Martin Thorvaldsson as chairman, after being voted last week by DOGA members at the organisation’s annual general meeting. DOGA is the trade organisation of the Danish online gambling industry and includes …