Europe

Ex-Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is backing a body hoping to purchase embattled identity and user verification provider Jumio, pledging a reported $3.7 million towards financing its ongoing operations. Jumio, which has igaming/betting clients including Betfair and Mr Green, had entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings allowing for US high courts to manage its assets. Issuing its Chapter 11 filing, Jumio management claimed …

UK race course operator Arena Racing Company (ARC) has confirmed the appointment of the Press Association as its official data delivery partner. The Press Association will be charged with maintaining and delivering ARC horseracing data to retail and online bookmakers via its multi-content distribution platform. The partnership will aim to come into effect by June 2016 when Press Association will …

Following a dreadful week of unfavourable results at Cheltenham 2016, all bookmakers will be longing for the start of Euro 2016 (France 10 June – 10 July). Euro 2016 will be the first major summer football tournament under the POC regime, Scott Longley examines how betting operators will look to turn the event into a cash cow… This summer will …

After a slow start for Damien Fearn, Managing Director of Tipstrr, he managed to help the Guests increase the lead over 2nd place SBC to 8.34 points. It was a disappointing day for Stephen Harris of bettingexpert, as he collected just 1.03 points despite early wins for Hollies Pearl and Double W’s. Timeform remain at the bottom of the Tipster …

Gaming Innovation Group (GIG) have agreed a deal to acquire sports betting technology company OddsModel. GIG will eventually integrate all OddsModel systems into iGamingCloud’s sportsbook engine, but hope to complete the initial integration process in time for Euro 2016. OddsModel develops technology platforms and statistical models to calculate probabilities of sporting outcomes, generating real-time pricing of pre-match and in-play sports …

Paddy Power coped best with the extra website traffic during Gold Cup day at Cheltenham last week, according to Capacitas, a company that specialises in preventing websites from crashing. As reported in iGaming Business, Capacitas said that the conversion rate of a website degrades when page load time exceeds two seconds. Research from Capacitas showed that around the time of the …

Paysafe Group has partnered with Emerchants Ltd to deliver white-labelled pay-out card solutions to gaming operators across Europe. Emerchants, which counts gaming operators in Australia such as Ladbrokes, William Hill and Sportsbet among its clients, offers an innovative prepaid payment technology platform with processing and programme management services. Paysafe is a Principal Member of MasterCard® and authorised by the UK …

After Ciaran O’Brien collected 16.5 points last week at Cheltenham, all eyes will be on the next special guest in the Tipster Challenge at Haydock. Trying to maintain, or even extend the Guest’s lead, will be Damien Fearn of Tipstrr Ltd. Damien used to build custom algorithmic models to provide useful and profitable advice to clients and betting syndicates. Now …

The Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Katowice 2016, which ended earlier this month, has been announced as the biggest ever esports event in ESL history.  Held at the Spodek Arena the three day event, which included tournaments in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Starcraft and League of Legends, saw Fnatic, SK Telecom T1 and Polt emerge the respective winners. This year’s event shattered all records for viewership …

Newly merged Paddy Power Betfair has confirmed that Chief Operational Officer (COO) Andy McCue has decided to step down from his leadership role at the FTSE 100 listed operator. The announcement of McCue’s departure will surprise many industry commentators, who had predicted that McCue would likely succeed Breon Corcoran as CEO of Paddy Power Betfair in the near future. McCue …