Greyhound racing will continue to take place behind closed doors in England, the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) has confirmed. There were some doubts as to whether the sport would be allowed to go ahead amid Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s tightening of COVID-19 restrictions. However, the GBGB has said that it has ‘not been informed of any intention to …
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Writing in Commons news source Politicshome.com, Michael Dugher – Chief Executive of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) – has warned MPs that there is ‘too much fiction swirled around the debate of gambling’. As the review of the 2005 Gambling Act goes through its ‘call-for-evidence’ phase, Dugher and the BGC have welcomed the government’s ‘determination to drive big changes’ …
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Betfair has been provided bleak options by Italy’s ADM customs and monopolies agency as to how it should calculate Italy’s temporary turnover tax on its ‘Exchange’ betting product. Last summer, the Italian government imposed a 0.5% turnover tax across all sports wagering verticals (retail, digital and virtual sports) – a year-long measure approved as part of Italy’s ‘Covid Revival Decree’. The decision …
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Regulus Partners kicks off 2021 by analysing how the pent-up demand for sports betting from Covid restricted consumers enlarged betting’s Q4 margins, as well as the House of Lords’ deep interest in the Gambling Act’s review… In the depths of the first wave of lockdowns, online sports betting was among the beleaguered sectors of the gambling industry, lacking key …
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Cellxpert has been selected by CasinoFriday – the first casino brand of 1UP Entertainment – to oversee and manage its new affiliate program. Through the new partnership, Cellxpert will strengthen CasinoFriday’s global expansion strategy by leveraging its HTML5 ad serving capabilities. Moreover, the 1UP Entertainment brand will benefit from the enforcement and implementation of ‘an extensive set of regulatory compliance …
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Sports betting data provider LSports has announced the appointment of former COO and co-founder Dotan Lazar (pictured) as its new chief executive officer (CEO). His promotion follows the transition of former co-founder and CEO Shaul Lazar into the company’s first chairman and advisor position. Dotan Lazar said: “I’m extremely proud of the company’s achievements during the past years. LSports keeps proving …
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Entain CEO Shay Segev has resigned as Group CEO of the FTSE100 online gambling group to join DAZN as ‘joint-chief executive’ of the global sports OTT platform. “Shay has a notice period of six months and will remain in his current role for that period or until a successor is in place,” read Entain’s statement. “The Board, having considered succession issues …
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Pronet Gaming has opened a new ‘innovation hub’ in Sofia, Bulgaria, which will support the growth of its tech systems and client partnerships. The Sofia hub, which will be led by Pronet Gaming General Manager Tsvetanka Dimitrova, will house 40 tech professionals that will work primarily on optimising product development and innovation projects for the igaming systems and platform supplier. …
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Luckbox has strengthened its executive leadership team by appointing Ran Kaspi as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Kaspi has joined Luckbox from drone safety systems provider ParaZero Ltd, where he formerly served as financial lead of the ASX-listed company. The executive has prior industry experience having led the ‘economic and performance team’ of 888 Holdings during his five-year tenure with …
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Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Netherlands gambling regulatory authority, has imposed fines totalling €600,000 on Curaçao-based operator Virtual Coin Gaming NV for ‘offering illegal games of chance’. Publishing its enforcement notice, KSA named Virtual Coin Gaming as the operating firm of unlicensed domains futgalaxy.nl and futgamer.net – websites deemed to be actively targeting Dutch consumers. The KSA was forced to take immediate …
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