Europe

Jacob Lopez Curciel is the CEO at Optima. He admits to liking everything about ICE, but specifically ‘the high pace of the business flow and the amount of contacts and relationships created every year which is amazing’. Just a week before the conference, we caught up with him to talk about his preparation for ICE 2017, where to find him and …

Seeking to boost its client performance marketing and retention capabilities, industry affiliate marketing software provider NetRefer has launched its new customer loyalty program. Announcing its initial launch, NetRefer governance details that its customer loyalty program will be unique within the industry as it will introduce gamification features to its existing performance marketing platform. Currently being tested in beta, NetRefer states …

Sports structured finance modelling and risk assessment specialists SportsRISQ (Risq.uk) has confirmed that it has secured English football clubs’ Everton FC (Premier League) and Fulham FC (Championship) as new platform partners of its ‘RISQ Performance Dashboard’. Moving forward, Everton and Fulham will utilise the RISQ Performance Dashboard as a business intelligence tool specifically designed for football club executives. The dashboard …

Late last week, LeoVegas was revealed as the new ‘Official Betting and Gaming Partner’ for Leicester Tigers, the two-time European Cup winners and 10-time English league champions. We caught up with UK Country Manager Shenaly Amin to find out more about the three-year deal, how the company will judge the effectiveness of the partnership, and whether Leicester’s recent poor form …

SBC and the Racing Post have joined forces after agreeing to a strategic event partnership for 2017. The deal will see the Racing Post take a prominent position in SBC’s two flagship conferences this year, Betting on Football (3-5 May) and Betting on Sports (13-15 September). Both events will feature the Racing Post Networking Cafe, allowing delegates to catch up …

Betting Gods has extended its reach in Europe after a successful move into the Maltese sports betting market highlighted a clear demand for expansion. Since launching in Malta in December, Betting Gods has seen a growth in business of 17.27%. The company, which was previously available in English only, has reacted by creating French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish …

Oslo-listed Gaming Innovation Group (GIG) has announced the launch of new German-language online sportsbook Wetten.com delivered through its industry platform subsidiary iGaming Cloud. Wetten.com becomes the first betting operator to be launched on the iGaming Cloud platform, utilising GIG groups Malta Class 4 Remote Gaming License. GIG’s Wetten.com partnership has seen the company partner with German sports betting industry veterans Daniel …

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) welcomed its latest gaming/betting listed enterprise Jackpotjoy Plc this Wednesday. Debuting on the London exchange as the ‘world’s largest online bingo operator’ Jackpotjoy Plc, formerly Toronto TSX-listed Intertain Group closed its first day of LSE trading securing a share price of 645p. Headed up by new Chief Executive Andrew McIver, JackpotJoy had first stated its …

Spanish gambling operator Grupo Codere (Codere) has acquired a 51% stake in Italian gaming machines supplier Nori Games Services SRL through its Italian business subsidiary ‘Codere Italia’. Seeking to increase its presence within the Italian gambling market, Codere acquires its majority stake in Nori Games from the Cimmino family for an undisclosed sum. At present, Nori Games holds a portfolio …

The report from the gaming analysts at UBS which pulled the rug from under the share price of William Hill this week doesn’t pull its punches when it comes to the near-term future for the high-street bookmakers. The team at UBS suggest that retail operating profits could decrease by an average of 40 percent depending on what the upcoming Triennial …