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UK bookmaker Coral has announced that it has launched Digital Sports Tech betting solutions on its platform, broadening its market choice for customers. Launched today under a ‘period of exclusivity’ with Coral, Digital Sports Tech solutions is the only industry product that enables customers to create and customise their own bets on player performance across a range of statistics and …

Mikael Pawlo the former Chief Executive and co-founder of European igaming operator Mr Green & Co (Mr Green), has invested in Gothenburg (Sweden) start-up Football Addicts (www.footballaddicts.com) the developers of next generation live score app, Forza Football. The undisclosed funding round was carried out by Pawlo’s private investment firm Derzhava, who acquired its equity from existing shareholders. Football Addicts aims to …

Following its Q3 ‘preliminary’ trading update, the governance of Frankfurt Xetra-listed mybet Holdings SE has informed investors that it will further reduce its full-year 2016 corporate revenue forecasts to between $43-46 million. Issuing a short corporate statement, mybet governance detailed that the operator had continued to witness a ‘negative trend in revenues from previous quarters’. mybet would declare that its …

European sports integrity unit ESSA has reported that tennis accounted for 84% of all cases of suspicious betting reported to regulatory authorities. Tennis alerts have now dominated ESSA’s integrity statistics for seven consecutive quarters since ESSA introduced its quarterly reporting practice at the start of 2015. The third quarter of 2016 saw 37 cases of suspicious betting activity identified by …

Industry software and platform provider EveryMatrix has confirmed the appointment of Nicolas Fleiderman as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). A fifteen-year industry veteran, Fleiderman joins the EveryMatrix leadership team having served as a senior strategic consultant to Dutch national lottery operators De Lotto and Nederlandse Loterij. Updating the market on its leadership appointment, EveryMatrix Governance informed that Fleiderman would …

John Hill, PR Manager at Coral, produced a decent performance in the Tipster Challenge at Fakenham, returning 4.25 points to enter in second place on the leaderboard after four weeks. That leaves Hill, who has been in his current role with Coral since March 2014, behind only Alan Alger in the latest standings. The PR Manager for Betway collected 11.41 …

Sky Betting & Gaming’s Caroline Ackroyd has been named as the Best Finance Director of a Private Equity Company (£50m+) in the 14th annual Yorkshire Finance Director Awards. Ackroyd, who wasn’t even aware she had received a nomination, was selected from a shortlist of 32 candidates across the country. The judging process involved a panel interview with the four awards …

Spanish gambling group Grupo Codere has announced the launch of its new platform for its online sportsbook and casino verticals, hosted under its Codere.es brand. The platform launch has been additionally supported by a new fully responsive website launched last week. Optimising its sportsbook offering Codere.es will feature more in-play betting markets, faster website loading times and better user functionality …

Real money Android app store Betcade has confirmed that it has been approved an ‘Authorised Payment Institution’ for the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Updating the market, Betcade governance stated that its FCA approval market a significant milestone for its product which had been officially launched in the UK this May. Moving forward, the Betcade app store will …

Updating the market, industry games developer Yggdrasil Gaming has announced that it is to establish a new parent company and expanded its Stockholm office in order to meet commercial demands. The new parent company will sit at the top of Yggdrasil’s existing corporate structure, with the developer aiming to expand its presence within the thriving Stockholm tech scene. Yggdrasil governance …