Europe

FTSE-listed betting operator GVC Holdings Plc (GVC) this morning has announced its first major B2B partnership with UK independent bookmaker Betfred for the services of its online sports betting and igaming platform. Updating the market, GVC detailed a ten year ‘transformational B2B agreement’ which will see Betfred fully migrate its digital assets to GVC’s platform provisions on an exclusive basis. …

Issuing a market update, NYX Gaming (NYX) governance has confirmed that it has completed its £270 million co-funded acquisition of market leading sports betting platform provider OpenBet. First announced on 4 April, NYX acquires 100% of OpenBet assets from private equity firm Vitruvian Partners for a total consideration of £270 million, of which William Hill and Sky Betting & Gaming …

Belgium’s Gambling Commission (BGC) has granted Betclic Everest Group approval to offer licensed online sports betting and slot services under the betclic.be domain. The approval sees Betclic Everest re-enter the Belgium online gambling market, which it was forced to withdrawal from in 2012 following numerous complaints and fines from the Gambling Commission which saw its brands blacklisted by the BGC. …

French online gambling regulator L’Autorité de régulation des jeux en ligne (ARJEL) has confirmed the appointment of Cecile Chaussard to its advisory board. Chaussard a lecturer of law and political science at University of Bourgogne (Dijon) will advise the regulator’s governance on matters of public and stakeholder policy with regards to the French online gambling industry. Under the current French …

Betsson have announced that its online subsidiary Betsafe is the first to launch a gambling app to Apple TV. For now, Swedish players can now log in and play directly from their Apple TV, but Betsafe will soon introduce the product in other countries. Betsson have said that this Swedish launch illustrates its strategy to remain at the forefront of …

The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has said it will allow Ladbrokes and Gala Coral to continue with their merger plans, but only if the firms divest 350-400 betting shops. The proposed merger would create Britain’s biggest bookmaker with around 4,000 betting shops, but the CMA has identified 659 areas across the country where the deal could harm competition. …

The first Bullet Business Esports Betting Summit went off with a bang at the Royal Garden Hotel in London this week. With a strong lineup of speakers including Unikrn’s Rahul Sood, ESL UK’s James Dean and Victor Martyn of GosuGamers the 160 plus attendees were treated to a series of engaging and educational talks on the industry and how it …

The dates and venue for the inaugural eGames event has been announced by the International eGames Committee (IEGC). It’ll take place as a two-day pop up on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th of August at British House, Parque Lage, Rio, Brazil. The event will also be broadcast to esports fans worldwide. Countries from all over the globe have now been invited to battle it …

Gearing up for this summer’s Euro 2016 championships, Amaya Inc interim CEO Rafi Ashkenazi has detailed that betting subsidiary BetStars will launch its services in Italy and France. Updating Amaya investors, Ashkenazi declared that BetStars further European expansion was ‘imminent’ with the brand ready to launch in Italy and France by the start of Euro 2016 (10 June). Following BetStars …

The iGaming Super Show is pleased to announce that Marcus Tandler will be the keynote speaker at the Player Acquisition Strategies conference taking place on Thursday 9th June. Marcus Tandler wowed TEDx attendees in Munich when he described the highly complex future of web search in an elegantly simple flurry of slides that created a film-like strip of imagery conveying …