The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the creation of the new AGEM Mexico Committee based in Mexico City, which will focus on issues specific to the Mexican market that affect a wide range of gaming suppliers. Current AGEM member companies with a presence in Mexico include Ainsworth Game Technology, Amatic …

Betfair informed Austrian customers that it would no longer take wagers on its betting exchange from July 14. The decision was undertaken after a review of the market by senior management. Betfair operates in Austria, under a regional igaming issued in April 2005 by the country’s gambling commission. Austria represents the firm’s second operational jurisdiction after the UK Betfair will …

Sportradar,  suppliers of sports-related data, is pleased to announce the integrationof its soccer data feeds into the Onefootball application for mobile devices. The cooperation with the world’s leading mobile football community, based in Berlin, started on June 1st 2014. With coverage of over 100 countries, 240+ soccer leagues and 40 languages, Sportradar provides the broadest soccer coverage in the market. …

European Gaming and Amusement Federation: Euromat, has announced the appointment of Nick Harding, CEO of gaming low stake operator  Praesepe as the chief representative of  British Amusement Industry – BACTA Harding  has over 30 years experience in the gambling sector said: “I’m passionate about the gaming entertainment industry so I’m pleased to be more closely involved with EUROMAT as the voice of …

The revamped Excellence in iGaming show in Berlin (21st – 23rd October) promises to be the most important gaming conference in years, as numerous key topics and concerns will be covered on the show floor. EiG Berlin will be looking to bring to the forefront the biggest issues, factors and trends concerning gaming’s present and future. The expo will showcase …

Greece’s General Secretary for fiscal transparency Giorgos Sourlas, has urged the Greek Government to toughen up its prosecution of illegal gambling operations. Speaking to the Greek General Assembly on Tuesday July 2, Sourlas estimated that more than €5 billion (£3.98 billion) per year was being wagered on illegal betting operators. Sourlas stated that illegal gambling and sports betting were harming …

The Austrian Ministry of Finance has granted the integrated global gaming firm, Novomatic, two casino licenses. These will allow Novomatic to open two new flagship casinos in the country; one at Vienna Prater and the other in Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria. The firm, which is one of the largest producers and operators of gaming technologies and one …

Betfair has partnered IT analytics service and maintenance provider Nexthink to monitor the performance of its European igaming services. The Nexthink V5 solution is set to monitor the igaming operators  IT networks, reporting on technical infrastructures, potential blocks, user and usage functionalities and network bandwidth. Betfair have selected Nexthink due to the companys knowledge and capabilities of servicing large scale …

Midlands based igaming operator bet365, has been listed as one of the top private British companies, by the Sunday Times Newspaper. In its annual business and enterprise feature, the igaming and sports betting operator owned by the Coates family came in at 54 on the 13th annual Sunday Times Top Track 100 league table. bet365 reported increase revenues of 35% …

The BBC News African focused business program ‘Africa Business Report’, featured a special insight broadcast by BBC Sierra Leone correspondent Umaru Fofana on the rising popularity of sports betting in Sierra Leone (West Africa). The program reports that the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown has witnessed a surge in the number of small telecom/text  operated betting devices, were Sierra Leonese …