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Sportradar has signed a deal with the Serbian Basketball League (KLS) which will see the Serbian Superlige monitored by Sportradar’s integrity services. The company’s Fraud Detection System will monitor betting across over 450 betting operators, looking over the remaining matches in the current season from today onwards, as well as the upcoming season’s games. KLS Director Leon Deleon explained the …

Racecourse Media Group (RMG) has detailed that it has paid its 34 syndicated UK racetracks £80 million in media rights for 2015. The figure represents an 8% increase on 2014 media pay-outs generated from licence fees of racing broadcast owners; Turf TV – betting shop service provider to Licensed Betting Offices (LBOs) Racing UK (multi-platform subscription channel) Digital (Bet2View streams) …

Stockholm Nasdaq-listed live gambling solutions provider Evolution Gaming has confirmed that Chief Operations Officer (COO) Svante Liljevall has resigned from his executive role following eight years of service. The departure of Liljevall who has served as COO since 2008, sees Evolution Gaming lose one of its longest-serving executives.   Liljevall had been a key stakeholder in the company’s international growth …

SDB Games have announced that Gamingtec have integrated its range of skill-based Football and Cricket games in five different languages. The games are a welcome addition to a games portfolio that includes more than 1,500 casino games from software providers such as Microgaming, NetEnt and Evolution. Sapar Karyagdyyev, Managing Director of Gamingtec, said: “We are delighted to offer SDB Games’ unique …

Online gambling  platform and services provider Leander Games has partnered with the Swedish NASDAQ listed alternative betting exchange, SpiffX (NASDAQ:SPIFFX), to distribute the gaming technology supplier’s innovative new live betting product – Take 5. Take 5 is a simple, high turnover game initially focussed on football. The product allows players to make a one-click bet at odds of 5/1 that …

Sky Betting & Gaming (SB&G) has revealed that it has recruited more than 500 new employees in the past twelve months. In November 2015, the independent online betting operator detailed that it would implement an £11 million recruitment drive for its new customer hub in Leeds City Center. Furthermore, SB&G governance revealed that it had expanded its operations into a …

Sporting Index has joined ESSA, the regulated betting industry’s integrity body. By joining with Sporting Index, ESSA has added sports spread betting to its existing coverage of traditional fixed odds and pool betting markets. ESSA now has 19 members, and represents many of the major regulated international sports betting operators: the ABB, Betclic, Bet-at-Home, Betsson, Bet365, BetVictor, Betway, bwinparty, Digibet, …

One of the most fascinating bankruptcy filings in recent US corporate history, Scott Longley examines why so many Caesars stakeholders called its leveraged growth strategy wrongly. _________________________________  The denouement of the case brought against Caesars Entertainment Corporation (CEC) by its creditors in the bankruptcy court in Chicago produced a document that was commensurate with the size of the original buyout’s …

SBC News stretched the lead to almost 10 points at the top of the Tipster Challenge leaderboard after an unpredictable day of horse racing at Ascot. The Guests stayed in touch, despite John Hill only managing two victories and 4.88 points. The PR Manager at Coral was particularly disappointed with Arod (13/8) and Clever Cookie (9/4), as both well backed favourites came …

Andy Harris has been promoted to the position of chief executive officer at British slots and table games provider Realistic Games. Harris joined Realistic as commercial director in 2012 and has been integral to the significant growth the company has experienced ever since. He recently undertook a strategic review at the Berkshire-based business. On the back of this, a detailed …