Two City executives are launching an innovative web-based TV programme which will offer advice to punters playing the financial and burgeoning sports gaming markets. TipTV.co.uk launched this week and has been devised by Square Mile veterans Nick ‘The Moose’ Batsford, a former trader and analyst; and financial and football industry PR David Bick. TipTV.co.uk is a free to view, daily …
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the regulated betting industry have announced a new information reporting arrangement surrounding any suspicious betting activity. The agreement signed by the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) and the European Sports Security Association (ESSA) comes in time for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi but will extend to include Rio 2016. IOC Communications …
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Reporting from the ICE 2014 conference floor, SBC catches up with A BET A Business Development Manager Jason Hardman to discuss A BET A’s mobile and SMS retail betting system. The newly launched betting system, will allow betting shop customers to have easier access to all markets and staff to better monitor betting activities The A BET A system aims …
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Brendan O’Kane CEO of OtherLevels mobile analytic and data gives ICE 2014 insight into post user acquisition retention and optimization of users on mobile platforms. O’Kane focuses on retention of new user during their first 90 days of engagement with new mobile products. O’Kane states that this is a key area, where igaming operators need to focus further resources in, …
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Betway has signed an agreement to sponsor the 2014 Betway Premier League Darts tournament, the UK & Ireland’s biggest indoor sporting event. The tournament, staged by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), the world’s leading darts organisation, is played over 16 consecutive Thursdays from February 6 through to May 22 in arenas across the UK and Ireland. The PDC, chaired by …
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Payment processing firm Skrill have agreed to cancel their sponsorship of the Football Conference just one year into a three year deal. A joint press release explained: “Skrill has undergone a number of changes since the agreement was entered into and will be aligning any future sponsorship activity to its global strategy. “The Football Conference has always enjoyed excellent relations …
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Gaming and sports betting operator – Rank Group PLC, announced a pretax loss of £6.2M (€7.2M) for its operational performance for the six months ended 31 December 2013. The profit slump published by the operator, see’s Rank Group report a loss 23.5% on its 2012 performance reporting. The Interim results published on the 31st of January 2014. Rank Group. Key …
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The Israel Sports Betting Board (ISBB), which has exclusive rights operator for sports betting in Israel, is now live with a system developed by British sports betting software provider LVS Ltd and its French counterpart, lottery solutions specialist Lotsys SAS (FDJ Group). LVS and Lotsys won an international tender to supply their Advanced Betting & Lottery Platform technology (ABP) to …
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Vitaliano Casalone is the President of Inspired Italy, which has recently kicked into gear with the roll out of its virtual sports product in the country. SBC: How big is the Italian market potentially for virtual sports? Vitaliano Casalone: “Sports, sports betting, and football in particular, are a big part of Italian life. Since the change in Italian legislation, to …
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David Archer, owner of FREEBETS.com, the leading affiliate and sports betting service, talks to Sports Betting Community about his firm’s new app, which was released earlier this month. FREEBETS.com has grown rapidly in the last year and we are well aware of how important mobile is in the online gaming and betting space. Simply put, if affiliates and operators are …
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