Europe

As Britain hits polling stations this Thursday 8 June, SBC details bookmaker opinion on what has been a short but intriguing General Election campaign. On first sight, the UK 2017 election was viewed as a Conservative Party ‘Whitewash’, however a number of blunders has handed the initiative to the opposition. Can Labour do the impossible, has Theresa underestimated her position …

Updating investors, industry live games developer Evolution Gaming Group AB has informed that it has been approved listing on the Nasdaq Stockholm Exchange main market. The company upgrades its listing from the Nasdaq First North Premier and will move to debut its placement as a Nasdaq Stockholm enterprise on Wednesday 7 June. Evolution Gaming governance informed its current shareholders that …

Independent online bookmaker bet365 has committed £7.7 million towards building a 33,500 square foot ‘leisure & training centre’ at Etruria Valley Business Park (Stoke-on-Trent – Staffordshire). The bookmaker has been granted planning permission by Stoke City Council to redevelop the area, with the facility expected to be open by April 2018. The Etruria Valley premises is set to feature two …

Sportradar has agreed a partnership with EHF Marketing GmbH, a subsidiary of the European Handball Federation, to provide a range of services across the federation’s top club competitions. The partnership, which was unveiled at the ‘European handball goes Tech’ business event, will see Sportradar provide a range of data, streaming, marketing and digital services across over 650 matches a season, …

Horse Sport Ireland, the national governing body of equestrian sports for Ireland has announced the appointment of Ronan Murphy as new Chief Executive Officer, replacing outgoing Damian McDonald. Murphy takes over the organisation’s leadership, which has the responsibility of maintaining Irish studbooks, issuing horse passports, managing relationships between equine sports stakeholders and marketing the Irish equine industry globally. He joins …

Updating the market, New York-listed IGT Group Plc has confirmed that it has concluded its $825 million sale of social games/gambling division Double Down Interactive to Korean games developer DoubleU Games Studio. The deal was first announced last April, with IGT governance detailing that the final sales figure represented a value of ‘10.5 x on Double Down full-year 2016’s adjusted …

VSoftCo has been in the news recently after agreeing a multi-year deal to integrate its branded football game VStriker and a branded variant of Spot The Ball on Leander Games. To mark the start of a busy summer for the virtual sports specialist, we caught up with the company’s sales director Simon Westbury to discuss motion capture filming at Bramall …

Lithuania-based live gaming specialist BetGames.tv has announced that it has secured a new licensing agreement to distribute its live content portfolio to industry platform provider BestGoldBet. BestGoldBet is a developing market omni-channel gambling provider with an established presence in the LATAM, CIS and African betting markets. Moving forward, BetGames.tv will integrate its full portfolio of live table games and live …

Smarkets has announced a 30% increase in football trading volume across the biggest leagues in 2016/17, with £600 million traded on Europe’s top five leagues and two major cup competitions. Having accounted for £300 million of the football volume, the Premier League was by far the most popular league for trading on Smarkets. The rest was traded on La Liga, Serie …

Updating the market, Nordic Nasdaq-listed European sports betting platform and software supplier Kambi Group Plc (Kambi) has informed that has passed the ‘World Lottery Association Security Control Standard’ certification, underlining its position as the secure choice for both public and private operators. The‘WLA-SCS certification is granted following a comprehensive audit by WLA officials of Kambi security services and client provisions …