Clarion Gaming’s Sales Director James King is undertaking the challenge of a lifetime as he swaps Putney for the Sahara to compete in the Marathon des Sables. The Discovery Channel has ranked the race as the ‘toughest footrace on earth’ as competitors attempt to complete a course of 156 miles across the Sahara in 50 degrees centigrade across six days. In …

Ahead of this week’s Champions League quarter-final stage, Betfair marketing has released its latest social media viral campaign featuring players from official betting partner FC Barcelona and UK street magician Dynamo. The campaign named #MagicOfBarca sees Dynamo star of  Sky TV’s ‘Magician Impossible’ series perform visual tricks for FC Barcelona players including Luis Suarez, Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba as …

188Bet will relaunch its UK online casino services  (188BET.co.uk) utilising EveryMatrix’s ‘CasinoEngine’ as its lead platform solution.   Confirming the partnership, 188Bet management stated that a new casino platform with enhanced scalability and improved games content selection was needed for the company to compete it the saturated UK betting/igaming market. EveryMatrix’s CasinoEngine offers its clients one of the broadest portfolios …

Australian gambling operator Tabcorp has stated that its strong start to the UK greyhound season has been led by its content streaming partnership with SIS. As of February, Tabcorp’s racing media arm, Sky Racing commenced broadcasting pictures across Australia from UK stadia in partnership with SIS, supplier of greyhound and racing content. Tabcorp management has been pleased with its customer …

Stockholm-listed Cherry AB’s new business B2B services division XCaliber will provide Swedish fantasy sports platform FSport with its affiliate marketing platform ‘Omarsys’. Launched in November 2016, XCaliber is a specialist division focusing on player management and acquisition services. The division is set to bring to market new performance related tools to help industry stakeholders optimise performance and management of game …

SportPesa investor Bradley Trading has moved to challenge the Kenyan government regarding its increased gambling/betting industry tax hike to 50%. Presenting its 2017/18 Kenyan National Budget last March, Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich shocked industry stakeholders by announcing a blanket 50% tax on all licensed betting and gambling services. The majority of industry stakeholders expected the Treasury to announce an increase …

The board of Stockholm-listed Betsson AB has confirmed the promotion of Abby Rachel Cosgrave to the position of Vice President of Legal for Betsson AB and General Counsel for Betsson Malta. Cosgrave has been an executive team member of Betsson AB since 2014, primarily acting as Group Legal Counsel as well as serving the operator as Acting General Counsel as …

Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) has awarded its retail maintenance contract to facility management specialist ISS for its portfolio of +600 Paddy Power betting shops across the UK and Ireland. The contract will see ISS act as the bookmaker’s technical services lead, as well as managing betting shop portfolio maintenance. ISS provisions for Paddy Power estates will include cleaning, support services, property …

Updating the market this morning, Toronto TSX-listed NYX Gaming Group (NYX) has informed that it has expanded its GVC content partnership with its ‘NYX OGS’ games server being integrated by GVC flagship brand Bwin. GVC has been a customer of NYX since 2014, servicing games content to its Sportingbet brand. By integrating its NYX OGS games server the Bwin brand …

Australia ASX-listed gambling operator Tabcorp Holdings is reported to have made a significant bid to maintain its position as main gambling services supplier to hotels and pubs in New South Wales (NSW). NSW a key region for Tabcorp operations, has come under threat from James Packer-backed Crownbet who in February won the contract to supply gambling interactive services for Clubs …