With five African teams making it to the Qatar World Cup, bookmakers and suppliers alike are seeing plenty of betting action across the African continent. But while retail still holds strong for many bettors, BetGames has seen growing momentum towards the online space. James Everett, Sales Director for Africa at BetGames, discusses why Africa is a core market for the …
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Twain Sports, the sportsbook vertical of BetGames, has partnered with Betway to put its African expansion plans into action. The firm’s T-Basket product will be the first to go live in Africa as Twain seeks to ‘bridge the gap in demand’ for live sport with ‘high frequency entertainment’. T-Basket features professional athletes competing to score the most points in 60 …
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With “decades of experience” in different international betting markets, 10bet is confident that it can transfer this knowledge to its African operations. But something that will help drive the company’s expansion across the continent is its focus on localisation. Nir Saadon (right), Chief Operating Officer 10bet Africa, spoke to SBC News about the need for gambling operators to offer a …
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Super Group Inc (SGHC) continues to navigate against macro headwinds impacting the performance of its flagship Betway and Spin brands across global jurisdictions. Publishing its Q3 trading update, the NYSE online gambling group registered corporate revenues of €308m, down 2% on 2021 comparative results of €312m. The decline in headline revenues was primarily attributed to the slowdown of the Spin …
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In a major expansion of its African operations, bet365 has confirmed that it has launched a sportsbook offering in Ghana. Lauding the development as a ‘landmark moment’ for the Stoke-based global operator, bet365 confirmed that its site went live in Ghana on Friday 18 November. The firm intended to launch an offering in the country in time for the 2022 …
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Entain Plc has launched its first African markets venture, debuting its flagship international sportsbook brand, bwin in Zambia. bwin announced its Zambian entry at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Lusaka, where Entain proclaimed to local media its “commitment to promote sports and tourism” in the East African nation. Interim trading saw Entain leadership reveal to investors the FTSE100 firm’s intent …
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South Africa has become the latest market entry for 10bet, in a move which highlights the operator’s commitment to “expanding further into Africa, one country at a time”. 10bet is currently live in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. By entering South Africa, the firm explained that it will offer sports bettors access to more than 2,000 betting markets across 25,000 …
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Nigeria has greenlit a new business programme allowing non-domiciled operators to secure five-year permits to offer online gambling and sports betting. The project is led by the National Lottery Regulatory Commission of Nigeria, which will oversee the AML screening and fit-and-proper due diligence of applicants seeking permits. Valid for a period of five years, the Lottery Commission will charge an …
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To the general public and the industry as a whole, no sport is seen as intrinsically linked to betting as horse racing for obvious reasons – but questions have been raised about how long this will last. By extension, a betting product which is glued to the essence of horse racing is tote wagering – the future of which was …
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Maintaining focus on its strategy for Africa, Sportingtech has secured another client on the continent, partnering with international firm SunBet. A South African hotel, betting and casino operator, Sun International is currently targeting an expansion of its SunBet sportsbook holding across the continent, including ‘three well-established territories’. To support this ambition, the firm will incorporate Sportingtech’s Quantum platform, a localised …
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