The murder of betting shop manager Andrew Iacovou, 55, at the Ladbrokes branch in Aberconway Road, Morden, on 25 May, saw local newspaper the Sutton Guardian launch its SafeBet campaign. The campaign aims to improve safety measures for betting shop staff members and has been backed by Carshalton and Wellington MP Tom Brake. Andrew Iacovou, was working alone as betting shop manager, when …

French gambling regulator ARJEL have promoted Gilles Crespin as Chief Executive of the regulatory organisation. Crespin takes over from the position following the retirement of incumbent Frédéric Epaulard. Crespin is set to undertake the restructuring of the organisation as ARJEL looks to be more in-tune with modern gaming consumer demands. Crespin had served as Assistant General Manager for the French …

Team SBC catches up with Anton Kaszubowski, Founder of Greenlaw Limited – an advisory and investment vertical for igaming start-ups. Anton is an experienced igaming executive and investor in new ventures, gambling and media sectors, he has played a significant role in the financing, growth and eventual sale of several businesses in the interactive gaming and media sectors as either …

Sports media portal and sports betting affiliate LiveSport have confirmed the acquisition of live football news and live results website– SoccerStand.com. LiveSport acquired the services of SoccerStand.com from founding company Enetpulse for an undisclosed amount. LiveSport are set to re-designed the SoccerStand.com website, which will be re-launched at the end of this week. LiveSport want to shift focus on SoccerStand.com, …

German sports betting market focused operator Digibet has asked the European Court of Justice to bring clarity to the German sports betting licensing procedure.  The operator has brought fourth a case concerning German licensing procedure, stating it to be cumbersome and lacking in transparency, which has in turn affected its business practices. Digibet are concern by the slow progress, of …

Former Greek state run gambling operator OPAP, posted a bigger than expected drop in profits for 2013. The operator had been hurt by new corporate gaming taxes implemented in the region. The operator had been burdened with a new 30% levy on its gross gaming revenue, which saw 2013 net profits drop to €141 million (£117 million). The new 30% …

French sports betting operator – France Pari witnessed growth in their B2B and B2C services divisions, as the French licensed operator posted a 70% increase in revenues for Q1 2014. The operator generated Q1 2014 revenues of €4 million (£3.4 million), France Pari further posted EBITDA of €150,000 (£124,000). The operator highlighted uptake of its mobile betting product by customers …

US based social gaming developer has acquired $12 million (£ 7.3 million) in venture funding , as the developer looks to build its real money gaming platform. Based in Glendale California, Gamblit Gaming aims to open its platform to game developers who want to add real money mechanisms to their game portfolio. Once integrated in the platform, Gamblit will promote …

Ahead of the Betting on Football Conference, team SBC caught up with  online betting exchange Matchbook.com’s CEO Mark Brosnan. Having recently re-launched Matchbook.com, Brosnan gives insight into building new brands in igaming and forming deeper bonds with sports betting customer s whilst being to optimise football betting marketing This April Matchbook.com has partnered with charity ‘Right to Play’, donating all commissions generated …

SafeCharge, the payments solutions provider specializing in Forex brokers and online gambling sites, formally launched its shares for trading today with an initial public offering (IPO) which raised new equity capital for the company to the sum of $125 million. The SafeCharge International Group Limited, a Central Bank of Cyprus authorized payment institution with about two hundred employees worldwide, floated 149,759,260 …