Evolution’s acquisition of NetEnt has been given the green light from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) almost two months after an investigation was launched to analyse if the transaction would lessen the competition in the region’s igaming market. Launching its investigation in September, the competition watchdog announced that it would be launching an inquiry in response to merger …
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Sweden’s Trade Association for Online Gambling (BOS) has branded the government’s proposals to extend temporary consumer restrictions on online casino wagering as illogical, with ministers devoid of the real-life consequences of their judgement. Sweden’s Riksdag has reviewed a raft of ‘Covid-19 protections’ proposed by the Ministry of Finance, which will see current weekly SEK 5,000 deposits limits and capped SEK …
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888 Holdings has strengthened its senior leadership team after confirming that Vaughan Lewis will assume the newly-created position of Chief Strategy Officer. Due to join the company in early 2021, Lewis will leave his role at Flutter Entertainment where he held the position of transformation lead for the international business following its acquisition of The Stars Group in May 2020. …
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Specialist virtual games provider Kiron will make its virtual sports content available across Aktiebolaget Trav och Galopp’s (ATG) online channel in a deal which the supplier has described as a ‘landmark tender’. Kiron was selected to integrate its full library of virtual games, including its recently launched Goal football and ice-hockey titles, onto the operator’s platform following a three-month procurement …
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BoyleSports has been issued a £2.8 million penalty and ordered to fulfil additional requirements related to its online gambling licence following a UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) investigation into money laundering failures. The UKGC’s penalty enforcement cited that the operator’s Boylesports.com and Boylecasino.com domains had failed to safeguard ‘appropriate money laundering risk assessments’, combined with further failings on AML duties and …
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Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) has revamped its Betspin brand as a new casino portal focusing exclusively on live casinos. Initially founded in 2015, Betspin operated as an online casino until its closure in 2019. However, GiG confirmed that the site has now been rebranded and relaunched as a fully-fledged affiliate casino site via GiG’s media affiliate business. Jonas Warrer, Managing …
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Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Netherlands gambling regulatory authority, has published its requirements for ‘systems inspections’ – a key procedure applied as a licensing condition of the ‘Remote Gambling Act’ (KOA Act) to be launched on 1 March 2021. All prospective online gambling licensees must submit a ‘systems report’ to the KSA outlining which platform and software providers will be utilised to …
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Neil McArthur, Chief Executive of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), has reiterated the government’s stance that licensed operators must ensure the highest operating standards and customer protections during the ongoing November lockdown. McArthur issued a personal statement to betting leadership as the UK entered its second national lockdown last week, underlining that the highest expectations had been placed on online …
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An ongoing structural shift from land-based gaming to online has allowed LeoVegas to offset the far-reaching impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, but the operator exercised caution over the tumultuous regulatory landscape within its home market of Sweden. Publishing its Q3 results for the period 1 July – 30 September, the operator praised its ability to ‘to quickly adapt to new, …
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In what has been an ‘unbelievable year’ for betting operators and media and marketing companies alike, the vast majority of firms believed that they had benefited from the after effects of COVID-19, as was the consensus from the guest speakers at the SBC Digital Summit CIS event. Mark McGuinness, Director of Marketing and Customer Success at Dam Mad Media and …
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