Amid continuing declining revenues for its casino sector, the Macau government will publish its mid-term economic review undertaken by Economic & Finance Secretary Leong Vai Tac. The Vai Tac review which began in May aims to research the overall effect of Macau’s biggest sector on the provinces economy and its potential recovery. The mid-term review focuses on eight key topics …

Aiming to promote fair competition for consumers, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published invitation on the planned £6.2 billion merger of Paddy Power and Betfair (first announced in August 2015). The competition regulator has requested for assistance regarding its review of the merger, inviting comments from concerned parties. The CMA noted that any comments or concerns regarding …

Four time world Super Middle Weight Champion Carl ‘The Cobra’ Froch has been announced as partypoker’s new brand ambassador. With Froch on-board as ambassador, partypoker announced that it would be giving 99 poker players the chance to knock the champ out and win a share of $100,000 Furthermore Froch unveiled partypoker’s new tournament schedule for the ‘partypoker Power Series’, with …

European sports betting operator bet-at-home AG continues its strong 2015 momentum recording a 9 month EBITDA profit increase (period ending 30 September) of 28.8% to €23 million (2014 Q1-Q3: €17.2 million). Despite no major summer football tournament, bet-at-home recorded an 8.9% gain in gross gaming/betting revenues to €87.5 million (2014 Q1-Q3: €80 million). bet-at-home governance was pleased to highlight that …

Specialist developer of virtual sports content Kiron Interactive has been approved as a Microgaming Quickfire development partner. The agreement will see Kiron Interactive virtual sports content released on Microgaming’s Quickfire system, one of the leading industry casino games platform. Kiron Interactive managment announced that it would begin its Quickfire partnership, by rolling out popular virtual football, sports and boxing content, …

UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph has reported that GVC Holdings governance has rebuffed a number of offers interested in acquiring its bwin.party Entertainment assets. The Aim listed operator, stated to the newspaper that it had been approached by interested parties in the potential sale of UK bingo operator Cashcade and its B2C brand Foxy Bingo. GVC had received further interest …

New South Wales (NSW) regulators have moved to ban the advertising of live odds on sports television and radio broadcasts. The broadcasts restrictions were announced by NSW Deputy Premier Troy Grant last Friday, and are set to be implemented by March 2016. NSW restrictions will apply to sports broadcasts which are less than four hours long in duration, the restrictions …

Gambling operators licensed by the Gambling Commission are required by LCCP social responsibility code provision 6.1.1 (which has the force of a licence condition) to: put in effect a written procedure for handling customer complaints and disputes and offer dispute resolution by an ADR provider. This is to ensure that customers with a dispute about the outcome of their gambling …

Swedish slots supplier Quickspin has appointed Paul Myatt to spearhead its sales strategy and marketing drive. Myatt, who will be responsible for all commercial operations at the company’s Malta office, will report directly to CEO Daniel Lindberg as Vice President of Sales. He brings over 15 years of international business development experience with him, starting in telecoms before five successful years …

Industry domain market place GamblingInvest.com (GamblingInvest), reports that Amaya Inc is preparing to launch a dedicated sports betting portal under the brand ‘BetStars.com’. GamblingInvest a specialist broker in gambling focused domains, claims that Amaya Inc under subsidiary Rational Intellectual Holdings has acquired a group of domains all connected with the brand term BetStars.com. The BetStars.com domain was reportedly acquired late …