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The Isle of Man Parliament has announced the appointment of Jonathan Mills as new Director of e-Business with immediate effect. Mills takes on the executive position having been Non-Executive Director of Isle of Man based gaming company Veros Digital. A thirty year digital veteran Mills is Chairman of gambling technology provider ABETA (2009-2015), and has served as Managing Director of …

Reporting on its Q3 2015 corporate performance (period ending 30 September), Toronto listed Amaya Inc has reported quarter revenues of CAD $325 million (£160 million) up 8% on Q3 2014’s CAD $300 million. Revenue growth would transfer to EBITDA earnings of CAD 141 million (£70 million) for the period, up 8% on Q3 2014’s CAD $ 130 million. Amaya Q3 net …

Aiming to promote fair competition for consumers, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published invitation on the planned £6.2 billion merger of Paddy Power and Betfair (first announced in August 2015). The competition regulator has requested for assistance regarding its review of the merger, inviting comments from concerned parties. The CMA noted that any comments or concerns regarding …

Four time world Super Middle Weight Champion Carl ‘The Cobra’ Froch has been announced as partypoker’s new brand ambassador. With Froch on-board as ambassador, partypoker announced that it would be giving 99 poker players the chance to knock the champ out and win a share of $100,000 Furthermore Froch unveiled partypoker’s new tournament schedule for the ‘partypoker Power Series’, with …

A grim Saturday for bookmakers was tempered by an unexpected Sunday fillip according to data from the AccaTracker app, developed by Team FA to help people keep track of their multiple bets. On Saturday all but one of the top seven most popular accumulator matches went the way of the favourite, with Leicester’s victory over Watford and Manchester United’s defeat …

Specialist developer of virtual sports content Kiron Interactive has been approved as a Microgaming Quickfire development partner. The agreement will see Kiron Interactive virtual sports content released on Microgaming’s Quickfire system, one of the leading industry casino games platform. Kiron Interactive managment announced that it would begin its Quickfire partnership, by rolling out popular virtual football, sports and boxing content, …

UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph has reported that GVC Holdings governance has rebuffed a number of offers interested in acquiring its bwin.party Entertainment assets. The Aim listed operator, stated to the newspaper that it had been approached by interested parties in the potential sale of UK bingo operator Cashcade and its B2C brand Foxy Bingo. GVC had received further interest …

Gambling operators licensed by the Gambling Commission are required by LCCP social responsibility code provision 6.1.1 (which has the force of a licence condition) to: put in effect a written procedure for handling customer complaints and disputes and offer dispute resolution by an ADR provider. This is to ensure that customers with a dispute about the outcome of their gambling …

Industry domain market place GamblingInvest.com (GamblingInvest), reports that Amaya Inc is preparing to launch a dedicated sports betting portal under the brand ‘BetStars.com’. GamblingInvest a specialist broker in gambling focused domains, claims that Amaya Inc under subsidiary Rational Intellectual Holdings has acquired a group of domains all connected with the brand term BetStars.com. The BetStars.com domain was reportedly acquired late …

Jamie Vardy has already fired Leicester City to the top of the league, albeit the league table monitoring the most popular bets among AccaTracker users. Punters are choosing the Foxes’ home match against Watford to underpin their weekend accumulators in force, with only West Bromwich Albion’s trip to Old Trafford able to match it in popularity. It is testament to …