Caliente will become the first operator in Latin America to launch Player Props, the player proposition betting product from Digital Sports Tech. This follows the recent successful integration with Coral in the UK and Europe, and with MadBookie in Australia. Ladbrokes Australia will also launch Player Props in early 2017. Caliente, the largest sportsbook in Mexico, will be launching the …
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Bookies suffer a Christmas football betting battering
A set of punter-friendly football results over the Christmas and New Year period will have hurt the bookies at a crucial period in their financial years, according to analysis from Cenkos. All the leading Premier League teams won on Boxing Day including Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea, the current league leaders. Liverpool subsequently won the following day and …
Read More »Anthony Joshua favourite for SPOTY 2017
Coral has already started taking bets for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017 and has made Anthony Joshua the 11-4 favourite to take the crown. Andy Murray won this year’s to become the first person to hit a SPOTY hat-trick but is priced at 4/1 to retain it once more next year. Joshua is set for a mammoth year. His …
Read More »Lydia Barbara – Microgaming – What 2016 meant to me
As the sports betting and gaming industry gets back down to business in 2017, SBC News caught up with Lydia Barbara, Head of Pegasus Gaming Solutions at Microgaming, to reflect on a successful 2016 for the company. Favourite Memory of 2016 I’ve been running an internal challenge/innovation incubator at Microgaming throughout the year. My favourite memory is announcing our winners …
Read More »Clarion increases net space by 5% for biggest ICE in 2017
ICE 2017 will occupy a total net space of 40,925 sqm compared to the 38,980 sqm in 2016, making it the biggest ICE on record. The additional 1,945 sqm represents a 5% increase in space for the only B2B gaming event in the world that brings together the online and offline gaming sectors. The 2016 event attracted a record 28,487 …
Read More »Superdata report estimates esports betting at $56m
Superdata Research published its end of year report in December and in its assessment of esports it valued the betting sector at $58.9m (£47.9m). This was a significant but minor portion of the overall esports pie, which Superdata valued at $892m (£727.9m) currently with growth expectations putting it at a $1.4bn (£1.1bn) industry by 2019. You can read a full …
Read More »Gambling Commission justifies remote licence fee increases
The Gambling Commission has explained its motivation behind some of the changes in its annual fee structure which will see a number of remote operators facing higher costs than before, while many other operators will see a much greater reduction. Overall there will be fee reductions for around 1,900 operators while fees will be held at their current levels for …
Read More »New 12-sided £1 coin replaces round pound from March 28
The government has launched a campaign to encourage the public to return round £1 coins after it was announced that the new 12-sided £1 coin will enter circulation on March 28. The Treasury, which estimates that £1 coins’ account for almost a third of £1.3 billion of coins stored in saving jars across the UK, has confirmed that the old-style …
Read More »BetOnFinance.com launches CEO ‘sack race’ markets
Financial betting site BetOnFinance.com has launched a new game allowing players to bet on which CEO will depart next. Punters have long been able to bet on the next football manager to get the sack, and now BetOnFinance is giving its customers the opportunity to predict the next CEO to leave their current company, allowing them to bet on one of …
Read More »Kevin Pietersen admits fears over cricket corruption
Kevin Pietersen has admitted that he is not surprised by Cricket Australia’s (CA) claim that its emerging players are being targeted by corrupt foreign bookmakers via social media. CA’s Head of Integrity Iain Roy confirmed that players on the verge of squads for the national team and Big Bash League (BBL) are being targeted via tools such as Twitter, Instagram and …
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