FTSE-listed Ladbrokes Coral Group has announced that it will integrate retail property management Hexagon software across its network of UK betting shops. Hexagon is a global provider of enterprise applications for commercial property management. The agreement will see its LandMark 4 solution integrated across Ladbrokes Coral’s portfolio of 3,5000 UK betting premises. Ladbrokes Coral retail management detailed that Hexagon provisions …

Updating the market, Stockholm-listed European online gambling operator Kindred Group Plc has announced that it has commissioned two leading international researchers to investigate ‘gambling practices using anonymized customer data’ from its corporate assets. The study which has been commissioned for a period of three years, will seek to gain industry insight into player profiles, and user journey and interaction with Kindred …

London AIM-listed mobile gambling specialist Nektan Plc has today confirmed the departure of Leigh Nissim as its Chief Executive Officer. Issuing a corporate update, Nektan governance detailed that Nissim will officially leave the business this coming August, with founder and Non-Executive Director Gary Shaw retaking the firm’s CEO position on an interim basis. Nissim a former IGT and GTECH executive …

Ballybrit Galway racecourse management has confirmed that the 2017 Galway Races Summer Festival (31 July – 6 August) will feature its biggest prize pool with a record €2 million in festival prize money.   Galway Races event organisers were pleased to have secured the record prize money target with more than a month to go until the Festival start date. …

Industry in-play betting specialist Metric Gaming has announced that it has entered the Italian market in partnership with Eurobet Italia launching in Super Live product for football. The partnership will see Eurobet add a further 250 Super Live markets per football match. Eurobet management detailed that the Metric Gaming partnership will help it differentiate its sports betting product within the …

Betfair has teamed up with the Drone Racing League (DRL), the leading authority for professional drone racing to offer betting markets on the final race of the Allianz World Championship circuit at Alexandra Palace London (13 June). The Championship race will be the UK’s first professional drone race and will be held as part of London Tech Week, Europe’s largest …

Russian business news sources are reporting that GVC Holdings’ European sports betting subsidiary Bwin is preparing to launch a licensed Russian sportsbook property Bwin.ru in partnership with Digital Betting LLC. The Bwin project is said to be supported by Russian billionaire financier Alexander Mamut, whose investment firm owns Russian bookmaker Digital Betting LLC which will act as licensing partner in …

Scandinavian focused online bookmaker Entrobet (Entrobet.com) has launched its affiliate marketing program utilising NetRefer software services. Launching its partner marketing program, the Malta-based operator will join NetRefer’s ‘Unified Performance Marketing’ platform. Christer Frestad, Managing Director at EntroBet commented on the launch of the affiliate program “We have had nothing but good experiences with NetRefer throughout the implementation process of their cutting-edge affiliate …

With less than 24-hours to go until polling stations open, UK bookmakers have shortened the odds on a Conservative Party UK 2017 General Election ‘majority victory’. This morning Paddy Power Politics, detailed that it had cut its ‘Tory Majority’ price from 1/4 to 2/9. Furthermore, the bookmaker has drifted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s chances of becoming PM to 4/1, having …