Malta-licensed online bookmaker ManBetX continues to expand its coverage within European football, confirming that it has secured a three-year multi-million € deal with Spain’s La Liga. Beginning season 2018/19, ManBetX will become the official ‘La Liga Betting Partner for Asia’. The partnership will see ManBetX promoted throughout La Liga’s Asian market broadcasts of Spanish football’s top two divisions (La Liga …
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Stockholm-listed Cherry AB has confirmed that it will launch new Swedish online casino property Hajper.com, operated by its B2C division ComeOn. Hajper.com will be ComeOn’s second ‘instant withdrawal’ online casino, following the successful launch of Snabbare.com last December 2017. Developed for the Swedish market, Hajper.com aims to deliver customer withdrawals within a 15-minute timeframe. Furthermore, the online casino has been …
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Mark Bird the MD of the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) has penned an open letter to Paul Darling, Chairman of the Association of British Bookmakers (ABB) and Clive Hawkswood, leader of the Remote Gambling Association (RGA), urging the industry figureheads to support further funding measures for sustaining UK greyhound racing. Bird states that greyhound racing faces a funding …
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GVC Holdings’ online bingo subsidiary GalaBingo.com has confirmed that it has extended its partnership with UK charity 52 Lives. The online bingo operator has been a partner of 52 Lives since 2016, the charity which aims to change a peoples lives every week by ‘spreading kindness and generosity’. Recent examples include raising £3,000 for a homeless family to put a …
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This summer’s most important betting market is about to commence… Russia 2018 – No Chance! ITV2’s new season of Love Island will begin on Monday 4 June, with the reality show expecting to dominate all UK entertainment and social media coverage! SBC Bookies’ Corner gets the full lowdown on pricing and predicting Love Island 2018… _____________ SBC: Is it harder …
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London-listed racing/betting systems provider Sportech Plc will bolster its US trading provisions, utilising Sportradar sports betting solutions and risk management services. Updating the market, Sportech governance confirms that it will utilise Sportradar’s comprehensive sports betting technology systems, to service its US enterprise post-PASPA’s federal repeal. The commercial agreement will see Sportech significantly expand its sports betting inventory, risk management resources …
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Presenting its final trading update as an independent enterprise, Spanish gambling operator Grupo Cirsa SA reports progress on its home and LATAM expansion projects, despite its corporate performance being hindered by severe LATAM currency impacts. Reporting strong growth across its Spanish home market properties (Spanish EBIT up 10%), Cirsa reports combined group revenues of €4.17 billion. Nevertheless, Spanish growth could …
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Last week’s failure by Giuseppe Conte Italy’s Prime Minister-designate to form a government has been met with relief by Italian betting industry stakeholders, yet angst remains as Italy faces yet another constitutional crisis. Leading the right-wing populist coalition of the Lega Nord and Five Star Movement, the only parties capable of forming a government, Conte was blocked by Italian President …
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Paddy Power has detailed that the new series of ITV2’s ‘Love Island’, starting Monday 4 June, has taken ‘90% more in pre-event bets’ than its 2017 edition. Following May’s Bank Holiday weekend, ITV2 bosses revealed the identities of Love Island 2018’s eleven contestants (5 girls – 6 boys). Running over a period of eight-weeks, Love Island producers firmly believe that …
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London AIM-listed industry white label turnkey services provider Nektan Plc, has confirmed that it has signed a multi-brand partnership with affiliate marketing network Traffic Label. Nektan will launch three new online casinos; Slotster, SpinSlots.com and Jackpotslot.com, which will utilise its lead Evolve platform system. Traffic Label, are a digital marketing services firm, primarily focused on affiliate/acquisition marketing and SEO disciplines. …
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