iGaming

A successful loyalty scheme that saw one lucky customer win a solid gold bar worth £25,000 is to be extended at Jack Gold Casino.The Gold Rush-themed promotion was designed to reward its regular players and ran alongside the popular site’s first television adverts. Users collected ‘Gold Dust’ and earned ‘Tickets’ in a multi-level mechanic which handed out greater incentives to those …

Williams Interactive LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scientific Games Corporation, is to provide its vast library of authentic Las Vegas-style slot games to many of the gaming sites run by Bwin.party digital entertainment. Williams Interactive will integrate its Remote Game Server into the Bwin.party platform, providing players on sites run on the Bwin.party gaming platform with access to slot …

SBC Members are being offered discounts to two of the industry’s big events over the next couple of months – our very own Betting on Football Conference, held on 8 May at Stamford Bridge, and the I-Gaming Forum, held on 8-9 April at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden. We are also taking nominations for our Betting on Football Awards …

Richard Glynn Chief Executive of Ladbrokes briefed staff that the operator was on  course to deliver its full migration to Israeli igaming software developer’s product portfolio and player management solution. Ladbrokes will integrate Playtech’s systems before the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup. The operator aims to drop its current software and player management solutions, in favour of Playtech’s Information Management …

Paddy Power management expects its Italian focused operations to break even this year, despite suffering loses of €16.8 million (£13.8 million) in 2013. The betting has operated its Italian betting and igaming services since 2012, the operator is yet to post profits for its operations in the region. In 2012 the operator posted loses of €14.7 million (£11.56 million) Paddy Power management …

New changes to the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) were published this week by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC). These changes are set to come into effect on August 1 2014, and will relate to anti-money laundering and widening the scope for detecting suspicious betting patterns which may relate to match fixing. The changes that are set to be …

French gambling regulator ARJEL have promoted Gilles Crespin as Chief Executive of the regulatory organisation. Crespin takes over from the position following the retirement of incumbent Frédéric Epaulard. Crespin is set to undertake the restructuring of the organisation as ARJEL looks to be more in-tune with modern gaming consumer demands. Crespin had served as Assistant General Manager for the French …

Team SBC catches up with Anton Kaszubowski, Founder of Greenlaw Limited – an advisory and investment vertical for igaming start-ups. Anton is an experienced igaming executive and investor in new ventures, gambling and media sectors, he has played a significant role in the financing, growth and eventual sale of several businesses in the interactive gaming and media sectors as either …

Sports media portal and sports betting affiliate LiveSport have confirmed the acquisition of live football news and live results website– SoccerStand.com. LiveSport acquired the services of SoccerStand.com from founding company Enetpulse for an undisclosed amount. LiveSport are set to re-designed the SoccerStand.com website, which will be re-launched at the end of this week. LiveSport want to shift focus on SoccerStand.com, …

German sports betting market focused operator Digibet has asked the European Court of Justice to bring clarity to the German sports betting licensing procedure.  The operator has brought fourth a case concerning German licensing procedure, stating it to be cumbersome and lacking in transparency, which has in turn affected its business practices. Digibet are concern by the slow progress, of …