News Corp, the global media conglomerate of the Murdoch Family, is reported to be scaling down its investment in Australian sportsbook challenger Betr.  As reported by the Australian Financial Review (AFR.com), News Corp seeks to “water down its investment in Betr”, the sportsbook venture of Matthew Tripp in which it owns a 47% stake. Investment concerns have grown due to …

Spelinspektionen – Sweden’s gambling inspectorate, has called on all gambling policy stakeholders and industry leadership of Nordic gambling markets to join its ‘Live Seminar’ on 21 March 2023.  The event will be hosted at the Stockholm Waterfront from 10am-to-5pm and will provide the most comprehensive analysis of Nordic gambling market’s policy developments and wider issues impacting regulatory affairs. “Together with …

Last week the UK government delivered on a pledge of the 2019 General Election, publishing the White Paper of its review of Football. Regulus Partners draws on the expected parallels and horse-trading of how football’s fan-led recommendations will resemble UK gambling’s forthcoming judgements… The government demonstrated this week that, contrary to speculation, DCMS White Papers do exist. It has taken …

DCMS has confirmed that at present, no minister has been assigned to oversee the brief of the Gambling Review.  The statement was made in light of the Racing Post announcing on Wednesday that Stuart Andrew, DCMS current Sports Minister would oversee gambling duties replacing Paul Scully. This February, PM Rishi Sunak announced that DCMS would be restructured due to the …

l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), France’s unified gambling regulator, has ordered operators to prioritise reducing their percentage share of gross gaming revenues (GGR) generated from ‘problematic players’.  The initiative was called upon by ANJ’s board following its review of action plans on the “prevention of excessive or pathological gambling” submitted by licensees in 2022. Problematic gambling is recognised as “French …

Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) has secured a significant commercial upgrade to its existing content partnership with News Corp Limited.  Since December 2022, GiG’s media division has led the editorial of sports betting and online casino content for News Corp’s flagship The Sun and talkSPORT properties. Following a ‘successful launch’ that has exceeded partnership expectations, News Corp announced that GiG media …

Heritage South American gambling group Enjoy SA has unveiled its new online betting platform EnjoyWin, which is now operational in Brazil, a market that the Chilean based company expects to become “the next big thing”. In an interview with local media DF MAS, Enjoy’s Product and Innovation Manager Marianela Artoni shared that the platform features an expanded offer that includes …

Grupo CIRSA has lauded its 2022 financial recovery as all core business units “return and outperform pre-COVID 2019 trading”.  Full-year 2022 results saw the Blackstone-owned Spanish gambling group declare an operating profit of €552m, up 66% on the corresponding FY2021 result of €331m. Headline growth was attributed to CIRSA units achieving a combined peak operating income of €1.74bn, ahead by …