John Kelly, Chairman of Ladbrokes plc, has announced the appointment of Mark Clare as Senior Independent Director (SID) and Stevie Spring as Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. Both appointments will take effect at the close of business today. As part of the transition towards the merged Ladbrokes and Coral business, Non-Executive Directors Sly Bailey and David …
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BHA boosts integrity monitoring capabilities with Genius Sports
The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has moved to strengthen its integrity monitoring provisions by utilising Genius Sports’ ‘Price Monitoring System’, which will help it analyse and investigate irregular betting patterns in real-time. Delivered by Genius Sports’ proprietary Sport Integrity Monitor (SportIM) platform, the Price Monitoring System will provide the BHA with provisions for reviewing live betting prices, industry averages and …
Read More »Inspired launches its virtual sports in Italy with Isibet
Inspired, a provider of virtual sports, mobile games and SBG Video Lottery, has announced that its virtual sports will go live in Italy with Isibet later this month. Isibet will launch Inspired’s full suite of Virtual Sports, including Rush Football 2, Rush Horses and Rush Cycling, across mobile and retail channels during September 2016. Rush Football 2 offers between 7-15 …
Read More »The Guests look for Value Racing Tips at Goodwood
This week marks the penultimate week of Tipster Challenge action in its current format, before we revamp the horse-racing based competition. Can Value Racing Tips hold on to the Guest’s lead at the top of the leaderboard? Having produced a profit of £4,433.70 since 1st November 2013, Value Racing Tips has earned its spot on the Betting Gods network of …
Read More »Betway sponsors Belgium Football’s Croky Cup
European bookmaker Betway has announced that it has secured its second ‘landmark’ Belgium football partnership, by agreeing terms with the Royal Belgian Football Association (Belgian FA) to sponsor the ‘Croky Cup’ the country’s principal cup competition. The Croky Cup (Belgian Cup) which begins its first round of matches tonight, sees all levels of Belgium football compete in a knockout competition. …
Read More »Bet on the Nets with BetOnFinance IPO Game
With a vision of making the financial markets accessible to the man on the street, BetOnFinance has now launched The IPO Game, a new product where you guess the IPO settlement price to win. The current subject of the IPO game is Nets, which has had a turbulent IPO period. Not only has it decreased its price range to 145-160, …
Read More »Conall McSorley – Metric Gaming – Developing and trading real time golf markets
Conall McSorley, the Commercial Director at Metric Gaming, was at Betting on Sports 2016 to speak about international appeal, and the global reach for sports such as golf. Less than a week on, we caught up with him to discuss some of the points that came out of this session, expand on his predictions for golf betting, and find out who …
Read More »BOS – Future Shock – Money Laundering, Data Protection & Responsible Gambling
Kicking off the first day’s breakout sessions at BOS, Future Shock – Money Laundering, Data Protection & Responsible Gambling was an interactive workshop presented by David Clifton and Suzanne Davies of Clifton Davies Consultancy and Roy Ramm of Extrayard, together with comment from Jenny Williams, former CEO of the Gambling Commission. It focused on key regulatory issues affecting the betting …
Read More »Greece to open new licensing regime by October
Updating industry stakeholders, the Greek Syriza government has announced that it will implement its new gambling licensing regime by October, opening its market to foreign operators. This September, Deputy Finance Minister Trifon Alexiadis informed Greek news sources that regulatory and business provisions would be made available ‘within a month.’ Following amendments, the Syriza government is confident that its new licensing …
Read More »RGA urges Poland to rethink turnover tax
Industry body The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) urges the Polish Government to change its online sports betting tax regime to one based on gross profits rather than turnover. The Polish Government adopted a Bill on 19 July to amend the existing online gambling law. Despite the stated objectives, which include reducing the size of the unregulated market, the Bill does …
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