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Former Sky Sports presenter Kirsty Gallacher and three-time UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year Peter Schmeichel have been confirmed as hosts for this year’s SBC Awards, held on Tuesday 4 December at the stunning HAC Artillery Garden. Having made her television debut in 1998, Gallacher has gone onto become one of the most recognisable faces in sports broadcasting, enjoying an illustrious 20 …

Mexico’s top baseball league – Liga Mexicana de Beisbol (LMB) has moved to strengthen its all-around integrity capacities incorporating Genius Sports’ data systems and technology infrastructures. The partnership will see Genius Sports’ ‘Bet Monitoring System’ review in real-time all LMB related betting odds and markets. Confirming Genius Sports as Integrity lead, Javier Salinas, President of LMB stated that the Mexican …

Racing content and data provider SIS (Sports Information Services), has named Richard Brankley as its new Head of Greyhound Operations. Brankley joins SIS senior management from Ladbrokes, following a 19-year tenure with the FTSE UK betting group leading its in-stadia/on-course operations and betting services at the greyhound tracks of Crayford and Monmore Green. The experienced industry professionals will work alongside SIS …

Speaking at the UK Gambling Commission’s ‘Raising Standards Conference’  hosted at the ICC in Birmingham, UKGC Chief Executive Neil McArthur states that all industry stakeholders have to improve operational standards and cooperation in order to ‘know their customers better’. McArthur spoke to an audience of 170 executives from 100 gambling businesses, addressing public/political concerns during a disruptive year in which the …

Supporting its sponsorship of the FIDE World Chess Championship held at The College London (9-28 November), Unibet details that it will cater the most comprehensive chess markets inventory for its customers. This August, Unibet marketing confirmed that it had become the first betting operator to sponsor a FIDE championship as Norwegian chess master Magnus Carlsen faces American challenger Fabiano Caruana over a 12-round …

The Senate for Buenos Aires, Argentina’s largest province is reported to be reviewing legalising online gambling activities. The first set of proposals attached to Buenos Aires 2019 Budget has been put forward by BA Governor Maria Eugenia Vidal, seeking to revamp the province’s legislative gambling framework. Argentine news sources report that BA’s governing Argentina PRO party (centrist-right) seeks to issue …

MGM-GVC Interactive LLC, the new US strategic joint venture developed by MGM Resorts and GVC Holdings, has confirmed that it will utilise Sportradar as exclusive data supplier for its US sports betting provisions. The agreement sees Sportradar become the lead data provider for MGM-GVC interactive’s new and existing land-based and digital properties. Updating the market, MGM GVC Interactive’s new Chief …

Betfair failed to ‘reasonably recognise’ the red flags after one of its own customers – identified as Mr M, convinced the company to refund $150,000 which he quickly gambled away from his account. As reported by ABC News, the betting exchange should have identified “red flag behaviours” that showed the customer had a gambling problem before it agreed to reverse …

Super Early Bird tickets are now available for next year’s Betting on Football conference, which returns to the home of Chelsea FC at Stamford Bridge from 19-22 March 2019. All the ‘Early Birds’ who purchase tickets before Friday 14 December will get a £200 discount off the full ticket price, for an event featuring up to 2,000 senior delegates, space …