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Publishing its full-year 2018 results, Therese Hillman new Chief Executive of Stockholm-listed industry games developer NetEnt AB, has emphasised that her new executive team will continue to execute ‘changes delivering efficiencies for commercial growth’. NetEnt’s CEO closes a transformative Q4 2018 trading period, in which the games developer has undertaken a series of organisational adjustments – significantly reducing headcount within …

GVC Holdings’ online betting exchange property BETDAQ has launched new portal BETDAQpro.com, seeking to better inform betting customers of all levels with a ‘professional trading outlook’. Integrated with the flagship BETDAQ exchange, the BETDAQpro.com portal has been designed to enhance traders’ experience through access to market insights, supported with BETDAQ free trading tools and video tutorials. The ‘knowledge portal’ has …

The Sunday Times has this weekend published extracts of a letter written by Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) Executive Chairman Gary McGann to Paschal Donohoe, Ireland’s Finance Minister pleading for Fine Gael not to pursue with a new betting tax regime. The letter published under ‘the freedom of legislation’ act, sees McGann state that the Dáil approved/pending doubling of the Irish …

FTSE250 bookmaker William Hill Plc is set to review its UK media planning and buying advertising account, as the betting industry faces-up to a new marketing landscape forthcoming in 2019. UK marketing news source CampaignLive has revealed that William Hill governance will call for an evaluation of the firm’s media planning and buying strategy, currently managed by long-term incumbent Vizeum UK. …

Fast-growing online betting exchange Smarkets has confirmed the departure of Todd Johnson as Chief Operations Officer (COO). Johnson, who has served as Smarkets COO since 2016, revealed via LinkedIn that he had departed the London-based online betting exchange, returning to the financial services sector as operations lead for brokerage and wealth management firm GPP Group. Smarkets’ communications team has confirmed …

The end of a long and ultimately successful road towards gambling market liberalisation in Sweden has put one of its own – Stockholm-listed LeoVegas AB – on target to break the 50 per cent barrier for revenues derived from regulated markets. ________________ LeoVegas has told SBC Magazine that it expects to derive more than 50 per cent of its revenues …

The Gambling Commission has released a new set of rules, ensuring that operators implement a new wave of age verifications checks “to make gambling safer and fairer”. Following an open consultation, and to further guard against the risk of children gambling, new rules mean operators must verify customer age before they can either deposit funds into an account or gamble with …

Data rights may not be a subject matter that sets heart rates pumping, yet as the betting sector expands its global profile, its incumbents will face greater scrutiny with regards to sports data management, integrity and collaborations. Through betting/data subsidiary Betgenius,  Genius Sports has developed one of the world’s fastest growing data and technology enterprises, detailing to SBC why in 2019 …