UK bookmakers appear adamant that Jeremy Corbyn will keep his position as Labour Party leader despite the electoral challenge of Shadow Work & Pensions Secretary Owen Smith. Smith will now challenge Corbyn at the upcoming Labour Party Elections on 24 September as sole leadership candidate, with Angela Eagles (Shadow Secretary of Business) having yesterday announced her departure from the race …

Industry platform provider FSB Technology (UK) Ltd has partnered with IT solutions company Rackspace to implement their own private cloud ahead of the new football season.  FSB has begun supplying software solutions to larger operators who want to control their own data feeds and trading teams. The technology will now allow the supplier to launch these new clients in their own …

Polish state-owned lottery operator Totalizator Sportowy has become the official title sponsor of the national Ekstraklasa league, the highest division of professional football in Poland. Agreeing sponsorship terms with the Polish Football Federation (PZPN), the sixteen team league will rebrand to the ‘Lotto Ekstraklasa.’ PZPN officials were pleased to have found a title sponsor ahead of the start of the …

Boosting its customer retention capabilities, betting data and systems provider SIS has partnered with user engagement firm Data Gains to integrate its subsidiary ‘Loyalty Rewarded’ programme. The partnership will see SIS integrate Data Gain engagement services for its client portfolio including onsite widgets and user gamification functions. SIS and Data Gains customers will benefit from targeted and in-depth data capture, …

French state-owned gambling operator Paris Mutuel Urbain (PMU), will enter the 2016/17 football and rugby seasons with eight high coverage club partnerships. Committed to raising its brand profile within French sports PMU has secured partnerships with French football clubs’ RCL Lens, Racing Club Strasbourg, FC Rennes and Stade Lavallois. Its marketing partnerships’ with French rugby clubs will see PMU partner …

Yggdrasil Gaming (Cherry AB subsidiary) has today announced the appointment of Frida Gustafsson as Chief Financial Officer in a new role created following the supplier’s rapid expansion over recent months. Gustafsson joins Yggdrasil after spending more than six years in a number of roles at NetEnt, most recently serving as the listed supplier’s finance manager for tax and new markets. She was …

Gambling harm and addiction prevention charity GamCare has launched its ‘Gamble Aware Week’ in the UK cities’ of Cardiff, Glasgow and Manchester. Aiming to raise public awareness of problem gambling conditions GamCare will be offering free drop-in information and advice sessions for anyone concerned about gambling. GamCare detailed that the sessions would be ‘friendly and informal’, focusing on giving the …

Nigerian sports betting industry stakeholders have put pressure on the Federal Government to tackle the lingering issue of double taxation, claiming that current tax-inefficiencies are stagnating sector growth. At a summit hosted by industry body the Association of Nigerian Bookmakers (ANB), syndicated operators were all in agreement that taxes charged by the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) and individual states were …

Online payment providers QIWI and Skrill (Paysafe Group), have become the latest firms to be penalised by Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor. Last week, the payment providers were served notices by Roskomnadzor stating that they had breached Russian gambling laws relating to facilitating online gaming payments and that their services contained links to unlicensed betting operators. Roskomnadzor has given both payment …

Sports Betting Community (SBC), the media and events group which focuses on the betting industry, has broadened its expertise with the recruitment of two new advisors ahead of the Betting on Sports Conference – the company’s latest two-day event in September. Bookmaker Graham Martin and lawyer Quirino Mancini have joined the advisory board for the group’s events division, SBC Events, …