The Swedish Football Association (SvFF) has hit back at the country’s gambling regulatory body Spelinspektionen for not prohibiting licensed operators from offering betting on a domestic football club competition – despite its warning of some suspected match-fixing. Last month, the SvFF revealed that it had received reports of match-fixing within Division 2 Södra Svealand, advising the Spelinspektionen to implement a complete ban on …

Announcing a two-year ‘principal partnership’ agreement with Ligue 1 football club Girondins de Bordeaux, French online betting group Betclic confirms that it has achieved it it’s marketing mandate of sponsoring all professional sports teams within its home city. Ahead of this weekend’s Ligue 1 football season (9 August), FC Bordeaux management confirms that the Betclic brand will be displayed across …

UK media welcomes new US player ‘The Athletic’ a digital publisher seeking to disrupt sports journalism by offering in-depth content of every football club across the land. Backed by a raft of US venture capital firms, The Athletic comes to the UK media scene with deep pockets having raised a reported $90 million in enterprise funding to date. Founded by …

Embattled Global Gaming AB maintains a presence in its home market of Sweden, having this weekend launched its new online casino property NanoCasino.com. The Stockholm-listed online gambling group’s flagship NinjaCasino brand remains ‘indefinitely suspended’ by Swedish regulator Spelinspektionen, who in June revoked the licence of NinjaCasino operating company SafeEnt, charged with multiple AML and care-of-duty failures. Global Gaming governance maintains …

Industry publisher and market intelligence services provider ComplianceOnline begins a new era, as London investment fund Kester Capital a specialist in a ‘primary buyouts’ has backed a management buyout of the company. The publishing group of Gambling Compliance and PaymentsCompliance industry portals, ComplianceOnline offers legal, regulatory, and risk management oversight for global betting incumbents. Completing its transaction, Kester’s investment team …

Did you know that it is nearly 61 years since the first successful recognizably modern credit card – the BankAmericard – was introduced? It was not until 8 years later, in 1966, that Barclaycard launched in the UK the first credit card outside the USA. Credit cards have been controversial from the outset because of the potential harms that arise …