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Betinvest launches sportsbook solution specific to esports

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Betinvest has put its esports clients in control of the technical, technological and trading aspects of the business through its industry-first customisable Sportsbook iFrame solution. The solution’s sportsbook management function, which gives operators the opportunity to create business reports, teasers and promotions, as well as being able to see the turnovers for both main sports and other activities, is not …

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GVC embraces its digital capacity amid a changing UK landscape

SBC News GVC embraces its digital capacity amid a changing UK landscape

Completing its first year as FTSE100 enterprise, GVC Holdings reports that the betting group has demonstrated its global scale and market diversification capacities, delivering growth across all operating territories. The firm’s enlarged portfolio of nineteen brands, operating across multiple European jurisdictions records full-year 2018 group revenues of £2.9 billion (FY2017: £800m) – as GVC governance continues to explore further new …

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Redzone.bet rewards customer hot streaks with ‘Glory Goals’

SBC News Redzone.bet rewards customer hot streaks with 'Glory Goals'

Argyll Entertainment’s Redzone.bet has launched its new and exclusive ‘Glory Goals’ match bet market challenges, which see customers rewarded if they ‘hit a hot streak’. Launching ‘Glory Goals’, Redzone.bet will allow customers to bet on two twos teams playing in different games, wagering on ‘goals supremacy’ outcomes, including the draw. Redzone.bet details that Glory Goals extends the bookmaker’s successful ‘low …

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Barry Cottle – SGC significantly advances its Euro profile with IDDAA Turkey win

SBC News Barry Cottle - SGC significantly advances its Euro profile with IDDAA Turkey win

As anticipated Nasdaq gambling technology group Scientific Games Corporation (SGC) has announced a major supplier win, confirming that it will takeover the management of the Turkish IDDAA sports betting concession, in partnership with Turkish media conglomerate Demirören Holdings. Servicing 5,300 Turkish retail betting points, SGC and Demirören have established new joint-venture ‘Şans Girişim’, the company which will operate the ten-year …

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Swiss drama sees bet-at-home ‘peak performance’ unlikely to be matched in 2019

SBC News Swiss drama sees bet-at-home 'peak performance' unlikely to be matched in 2019

Led by an effective period of successful new customer acquisitions, combined with the reactivation of its existing player base, Frankfurt Xetra-listed bet-at-home AG declares a ‘historical PEAK EBITDA’ of €36.2 million (2017: €35.5m) publishing its full-year 2018 results. Updating investors bet-at-home records its highest-ever betting & gaming volume, breaking the €3 billion wagering mark supported by high-coverage advertising campaigns launched from …

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Luckbox bolsters payments capacity with MoneyMatrix

SBC News Luckbox bolsters payments capacity with MoneyMatrix

Heading towards its April 2019 launch, new betting incumbent Luckbox the betting platform seeking to revolutionise esports wagering has announced that MoneyMatrix will act as its lead payments solution provider. Updating the market, Luckbox’s development team confirms that it’s custom built esports-betting platform, will utilise EveryMatrix’s MoneyMatrix tailored payments system, powering its transactional capacities. Confirming MoneyMatrix as new partners, Luckbox …

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Debt free Raketech seeks optimal financing structure

SBC News Debt free Raketech seeks optimal financing structure

Issuing a market filing, Stockholm-listed industry affiliate marketing network Raketech Group Plc has disclosed that it has repaid its entire corporate debt of €7.7 million. Updating investors, Raketech governance details that the company has completed one of its post-IPO directives, repaying its outstanding corporate debt to allow for a better future capital operating structure. As a result of the transaction, …

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Winning Post: Betting absorbs a bumper week of UK funny games

SBC News Winning Post: Betting absorbs a bumper week of UK funny games

Industry strategic consultancy Regulus Partners reviews a week of UK parliamentary debate on the future of betting/gambling’s regulatory structure,  which appears to be turning into a game of political manoeuvring and posturing… _______________ UK: Regulation – Labour speaks softly but carries a big stick UK gambling operators awoke yesterday to the sight of two senior parliamentarians striding towards them, wielding big …

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BetVictor strengthens greyhound product offering with SIS deal

SBC News BetVictor strengthens greyhound product offering with SIS deal

BetVictor has signed an agreement with Sports Information Services (SIS), which will strengthen the operator’s current British and Irish greyhound content offering. Delivered as part of the operator’s new ‘Bet and Watch’ format, customers will have the opportunity to utilise regular short-form betting events, which is hoped to provide more engaging betting content designed to improve retention and dwell time. Eoin Ryan, …

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Philip Bowcock – Pivotal 2018 has laid global growth foundations for William Hill

SBC News Philip Bowcock – Pivotal 2018 has laid global growth foundations for William Hill

Closing a ‘pivotal 2018’ for William Hill operations, Group Chief Executive Philip Bowcock states that the firm’s reformed executive team has ‘real clarity and purpose’ on its objectives and guidance for 2019, entering a period which will define the legacy bookmaker’s future business entity. “This business has seen a lot of change over its 85-year history, but arguably, never before …

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