Cherry Gaming AB has moved to further extend its presence within the highly competitive Finnish igaming market, by announcing the launch of Suomicasino.com Suomicasino.com a Finnish market tailored white-label casino, will be operated by Cherry AB marketing subsidiary Game Lounge. The casino will feature gaming content from Cherry AB’s Yggdrasil Gaming, and further inventory from Amaya Inc, NetEnt and Microgaming. …

US sports network ESPN, has lifted its temporary suspension of DraftKings advertising throughout its channels, as all major US sports networks continue to promote fantasy sports services. This weekend the sports network resumed advertising coverage of DraftKings services, despite the operator’s ongoing employee data conflict allegations. ESPN a key partner for DraftKings, had publically announced that it had taken a …

Betting technology and platform supplier BetConstruct has confirmed that it has gained certification of its Spanish betting services under the Spanish Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling (DGOJ) by Gaming Laboratories International (GLI). BetConstruct management further detailed that its product had received GLI evaluation and certification for its sportsbook information and security management systems. George Voyatzis, Commercial Director at …

Eighteen cases of suspicious betting patterns were detected in the third quarter of 2015 by the sports betting integrity association, ESSA, which represents many of the world’s largest regulated betting operators. Whilst these figures represents a slight fall from those detected by ESSA in Q1 (24 cases) and Q2 (23 cases), it highlights the continuing threat to sport, consumers and …

The Netherlands’ Council of Ministers has given the go-ahead for national lottery operators Staatsloterij and Sichting Nationale Sporttotlisator (SNS) to merge. The planned merger comes as both operators implemented cost saving strategies in 2015, due to continued declines in ticket sales. Dutch Secretary of State for Finance Eric Wiebes with the support of his office personally supported the move, stating that it …

Australian online betting operator SportsBet (sportsbet.com.au) has committed AUS $1.5 million to promote its new “Take a Break” campaign. Planned for launch in November, SportsBet aims to raise awareness of problem gambling, addiction and other risks associated with online betting. The operator revealed its campaign to the media, which promotes its self-exclusion system which allows players to temporarily bar themselves …

Tasked with leading new innovation for William Hill, Crispin Nieboer Director of Corporate Development & Innovation believes refining data for a  further personalised customer engagement as the operator’s key to future growth. Nieboer a founding team member of WHLabs, William Hill’s specialist industry incubator shed personal insight to marketing news source The Drum. With regards to data and customer personalisation, …

It appears that Sportech Plc are prepared to play the waiting game by allowing Canadian gambling investment firm Contagious Gaming a second deal extension, to its proposed 18 August takeover inquiry. Yet to receive a definitive offer, Sportech governance had given Contagious Gaming a 9 October ‘Put up or shut up’ (PUSU) deadline. However it appears that the Canadian outfit …

Soldier Jon Heywood from Crewe (Cheshire) has been named Betway biggest ever winner, after striking a €17.8 million (£13.2 million) jackpot on Microgaming’s Mega Moolah progressive slot. A 25p spin on the slot, saw Heywood land the €17,879,645 progressive jackpot, setting a world record for the the largest payout in an online slot machine game. Heywood’s win, is the highest …

Following reports that the Swedish government is preparing to review the national gambling regulatory framework, Sweden’s Media Associations for digital, media and publishing have pledged to self-regulate gambling advertising. The move sees the associations, which represent Swedish media owners, pre-empt the government’s potential future policy with regards to gambling advertising. Swedish media owners have had a fraught relationship with national …