Europe

Entain has outlined the significance of this Saturday’s Grand National race for its flagship UK brands of Ladbrokes and Coral. Aintree’s heritage fixture will mark the first occasion in which both customers of Ladbrokes and Coral will be supported by Entain’s proprietary technology systems. Despite facing COVID-19 headwinds, during the first half of 2020 trading Entain fulfilled its technical objectives …

Parimatch has overhauled its corporate leadership structures, in order for the CIS betting group to take advantage of new commercial opportunities.  This afternoon, Parimatch confirmed that Sergey Portnov had relinquished his role as Group CEO to become Chairman of the Board.  Portnov’s leadership duties will be shared with Parimatch senior partners Roman Syrotian and Maksym Liashko, serving as the firm’s …

GamCare is ready to undertake a critical project in relation to improving problem gambling treatment support across the UK’s penal systems.  The Charity has secured two-years funding to scale up the delivery of its ‘Nationwide Programme’, in which it plans to expand treatment and the pathways to support, made available within the UK Criminal Justice System (CJS). GamCare has long …

Sportsbet.io has secured the front-of-shirt sponsorship of Southampton FC – for another three-years, following the Saints renewal of its agreement with Coingaming Group. The extension will allow Sportsbet.io to continue to take advantage of the exposure and advertising during Southampton’s Premier League fixtures, whilst also maintaining a ‘strong relationship’ with the club’s supporters and the local community. Although financial details …

France’s Conseil d’État has granted l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) the right to prosecute licensed operators for failing to meet national laws and standards on consumer protections.  Recognised as France’s Council of State, the Conseil d’Etat serves as the government’s legal advisory for matters related to the French justice system and its Supreme Courts. The council had arbitrated a two-year …

Sportradar Integrity Services has added the Netherlands Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation (NOC*NSF) to its extensive portfolio of sports authority clients. The new partnership will see Sportradar utilise its expertise gained from over 15 years of monitoring global betting markets for irregularities to assist with safeguarding the integrity of over 1500 football, basketball and darts events in the Netherlands over the …

Full-service compliance agency Maxima Compliance has strengthened its commercial operations via the appointment of Filippo Ferri, who becomes the group’s first chief commercial officer (CCO). He will be based out of the company’s Barcelona office. Ferri previously spent more than three years as director of igaming strategy and new products at BMM Testlabs. He has more than 15 years of experience within the …

Ahead of this summer’s Euro 2020 Championship, sports betting brands will be embarking on a marketing blitz as they jostle for position to be front of mind when the football crazy population look to place bets on the long awaited tournament.  However much of this marketing spend is likely to be wasted, according to Solitics CEO & Founder Tomer Baumel, …

Pinnacle has strengthened its in-play betting offering after signing a partnership with DeckPrism Sports to utilise its proprietary models. Through the partnership, Pinnacle will benefit from DeckPrism Sports’ technology and modelling capability which the online operator believes will help ‘take its betting product to the next level’. Marco Blume, Trading Director at Pinnacle, said: “Everyone knows that in-play betting is …