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As all operators licensed by the Gambling Commission reading this will surely be aware, they are required to uphold the licensing objectives under the Gambling Act 2005 and to have in place effective policies and procedures to identify and manage the risks to those objectives arising from their business. In order to uphold the first licensing objective to prevent gambling …

Tobias Fagerlund, CEO of innovative betting exchange SpiffX, explains how the firm can offer bookmakers more than just hedging facilities. How powerful is your Spiffindex model for bookmakers looking to hedge liabilities? With Spiffindex we have opened the doors for odds to be traded on a large market. It is a very useful tool for price hedging especially during in-play …

Claudia Farrugia, Operations Manager of listed operator SpiffX, discusses the challenges of liquidity for betting exchanges and the best ways of ensuring good liquidity on the market. For bettors and professional traders, betting exchanges are usually the obvious choice due to the strategical freedom that they allow. The question is usually which exchange to choose. Various elements determine the player’s …

As with comedy, timing is everything in business. While there is a logic to the recent outbreak of consolidation within the gambling industry, for two of the mega-deals currently underway – the Paddy Power Betfair and Ladbrokes Coral mergers – the coincidence of the deals is providing onlookers with some choice compare and contrast examples. ____________________________ Last week was an …

At last week’s Malta i-Gaming Seminar (MiGS), Gaming Economics participated in an industry panel discussing the issues surrounding sports integrity and betting. One essential question was debated; who has most to lose from fixed matches, corrupt governance, doping scandals and all the rest?  The sport itself, bookmakers, punters or fans? All have a special and vested perspective, of course, yet …

As the European gambling industry consolidates creating sector giants. Scott Longley takes a look at the debt crisis that has engulfed Caesars Entertainment.   If anyone doubts that we are still living with the after effects of the 2008 financial crisis, they need look no further than the travails of one of the more high-profile corporate victims of the appropriately-termed …

Buoyed by interconnected global regions, high profile tournaments with impressive prize pools and an explosion of livestreaming, through platforms such as Twitch, an entirely new entertainment experience has been born. Media research firm Newzoo is  expecting the esports  industry to generate more than $765 million by 2018 with the number of competitive-gaming enthusiasts reaching 165 million. In that light, advertisers will …

Spreadex’s Andy MacKenzie bemoans the hiatus on top level league action during the international break and wants to see them carry on regardless. The international football friendly weekends prompt a collective sigh from footy fans as the Premier League and Championship fixtures take a back-seat for usually fairly drab national affairs. And it’s the same in the betting industry too …

Jelena Kuzmanov, product owner at Danish affiliate Better Collective, attended the recent Slot Academy in Holland on behalf of SBC News – and she found it an enlightening experience. When you walk into a slot parlour, you might think that one looks like any other – it’s just some slots, placed all over the room, not much philosophy around it. …

Having announced an all-star ‘US Advisory Board’, with business and sports heavyweights such as Mark Cuban and Michael Jordan guiding its initiatives. SBC caught up with Ulrich Harmuth Managing Director of Sportradar AG to discuss the company’s ambitious market plans.  Harmuth details why Sportradar set-up its ‘US Advisory Board’,  the company’s entry into the market and the core differences between US sports practices/trends at both commercial …