BoyleSports has grown its football sponsorship portfolio after being named the ‘principal partner’ for Coventry City Football Club. This story featured in today’s SBC News 90. To view the latest round-up, watch today’s edition here. The agreement, which covers the 2020/21 season, will see the BoyleSports logo adorn the front of the playing kit and replica shirts next season. Conor …
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Swansea City has become the latest team to drop a gambling company as its main sponsor, having confirmed that Swansea University will become the front-of-shirt sponsor. This story featured in today’s SBC News 90. To view the latest round-up, watch today’s edition here. The university will feature on the front of the first-team’s new home and away shirts for the …
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The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to safeguard the future of London’s high-end casinos by modernising current payment regulations, including an amendment to section 81 of the Gambling Act 2005 to change ‘outdated legislation’. This story featured in today’s SBC News 90. To view the latest round-up, watch today’s edition here. The BGC highlighted the …
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Jason Ader has stated that his company SpringOwl, an ‘independent sponsor and buyout firm’, is tracking all developments of a disrupted global gambling landscape as ‘the pandemic has opened the market’. Speaking to SBC, Ader stated that he is neither undeterred by talk of ‘doom-and-gloom’ nor swayed by easy rhetoric related to ‘business accelerations’. Instead, Ader recognises that global gambling …
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MansionBet continues to expand its portfolio of football partnerships after confirming that it has become the ‘principal shirt sponsor’ of Championship football team Bristol City. Bristol City joins the likes of Tottenham Hotspur, Crystal Palace and AFC Bournemouth who have all been sponsored by MansionBet previously. Dana Bocker, Head of Integrated Marketing at MansionBet, commented: “Sponsorship of a Championship team …
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On the eve of England’s final test match against Pakistan, FSB Head of Trading Mark Wilson (pictured) gave SBC News valuable insight on the rise of cricket algorithms and how he and FSB had to quickly adapt their cricket strategy during lockdown. SBC: International cricket made a return earlier this summer with the Test series. Can cricket step-up to the …
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SAZKA Group has hired London public affairs consultancy Flint Global to serve as a ‘special advisor’ as the Czech gambling conglomerate bids to become the new operating firm of the National Lottery in 2023. This story featured in today’s SBC News 90. To view the latest round-up, watch today’s edition here. Co-founded by Sir Simon Fraser, the former Head of the …
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Gambling harm minimisation consultancy EPIC Risk Management has added a 12-month extension to its partnership with Whysup, with the option of a multi-year arrangement The collaboration, which was cemented in May 2019, involves both EPIC and Whysup taking a shared collaborative approach to combat and reduce gambling-related harms at a national level. The strategic partnership will continue to contribute to …
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A recent psychology study published by Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has called for a review into gambling legislation related to lower stakes and fast-speed gambling games. This story featured in today’s SBC News 90. To view the latest round-up, watch today’s edition here. The study, entitled ‘The Relationship Between Gambling Event Frequency, Motor Response Inhibition, Arousal, and Dissociative Experience’, was …
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After being launched this summer by The Jockey Club’s Simon Bazalgette and Paul Fisher, Global Venue Services (GVS) will support equine and other sports industry stakeholders in accessing financial capital by launching its ‘Global Venue Finance’ subsidiary. ‘GV Finance’ will work closely with Andrews Bowen, an equine and sports surfaces and equipment company, as well as a group of finance …
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