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Industry insurance specialist RISQ has launched its new ‘gaming first’ random number generator platform boosting client jackpots by up to £25 million. The industry-specific generator can be attached to a number of client games including slots, tables games, lottery, keno, bingo, and instant win. Furthermore, RISQ states that clients will be able to tailor the generator to individual needs for …

From sponsorship to the ever-expanding world of football media coverage, when it comes to the business of football, SBC has got you covered. The first biweekly review tackles the continuing saga of overseas TV rights money, as well as looking at some of the winners and losers from World Cup Russia 2018 qualification. Sky Sports backlash over Amazon Man City deal …

Entering a new financial year, Australia ASX-listed gambling group Tabcorp Holdings has detailed a solid opening for its 2018 operating guidance, publishing its opening quarter trading statement (period ending 30 September). Although no longer required to provide quarterly trading statements, due to its ongoing merger with Tatts Group, Tabcorp governance has proceeded to update its investors and stakeholders. Tabcorp would …

Presenting its Q3 trading update (period ending 30 September), an enlarged Kindred Group Plc continues to deliver for its investors, declaring an ‘all-time high’ quarter for revenue and profits. Trading against a tough Q3 2106 comparative period (featuring Euro 2016),  Stockholm-listed Kindred Group would generate group revenues of £194 million up 36% on Q3 2016’s £142 million. Year-to-date Kindred has surpassed …

OtherLevels has seen its partnership with Betfred.com extended, with the UK facing bookmaker to take on the supplier’s entire portfolio of player engagement messaging services. OtherLevels’ app and web push, interstitials, and rich inbox communication techniques, designed to engage customers across a variety of devices and channels to increase lifetime value through messaging, are to be integrated. Russell Young, Commercial …

Clarion Gaming has announced that the iGaming Super Show, EiG, and the Amsterdam Affiliate Conference will come together for a new consolidated event, iGB Live. The creation of iGB Live is part of the commitment made by Clarion to streamline the events calendar and provide stakeholders with the opportunity to engage across the entire iGaming space at a single event. …

W2 is a data screening solutions provider which helps major organisations, including those active in the sports betting industry, to conduct regulatory Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Fraud prevention checks. Six months on from securing significant growth fund investment, we caught up with the company’s CEO Warren Russell to discuss the development of its sales, marketing and technical …

Ladbrokes Coral has announced it will no longer offer guaranteed prices that appear in the paper for a brief time on the day of the race.   Previously, for a limited period both Ladbrokes and Coral offered the prices that had been printed in the paper at 8:30am. However, as operators continue to become further detached from paper prices, Ladbrokes …

Esports Gold, a leading online media aggregator for the eSports community, has provided investors with the opportunity to lock-in the current value of cryptocurrency Ethereum through its initial coin offering (ICO). Purchasers of its Esports Gold tokens (ESG) acquire a share of the betting revenues of the platform, giving them the chance of an effective cash dividend based on annual …

The UK gambling industry has faced some heavy criticism in the media in the past few months. Most of it began when 888 was rightly castigated for its failure in its social responsibility with no-one in the industry, or at 888, dissenting at the Gambling Commission’s judgment. But a good deal of criticism has been sown longer-term by anti-FOBTs campaigners …