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Gambling-harms prevention and support platform Gambless has joined forces with mental health app Mindspa to expand psychiatric support resources for gaming industry employers.    The partnership follows an 18-month evaluation in which Gambless recognised the mental fatigue of gambling employees working in a ‘perpetual state of disruption and uncertainty’. It noted that employee mental health had risen to the top of …

Aiste Garneviciene, COO at BetGames, reacts to the relaunch of its signature Lotto product.  She discusses the role of its Emerald lottery machine as an “engagement driver”, how it is powering the next generation of lottery with more than 36 draws per hour, the standing of the Lotto product within its complete live games portfolio, and why we shouldn’t expect …

Kindred Group Plc continues to progress on its group-wide business sustainability objectives, despite recording a slight increase in revenues generated from harmful gaming.     Publishing its latest ‘safer gambling update’, the group saw its share of gross win revenues from high-risk players increase from 3.9% to 4.3% during the Q2 trading period.    Irrespective of the 0.4% increase, Kindred underscored that its …

The European Gaming & Betting Association (EGBA) will develop new sector-specific guidelines to help online gambling companies comply with the European Union’s new anti-money laundering rulebook.   The directive follows the European Commission (EC) being granted approval to update the EU’s financial regulations, standards and safeguards set by the EU AML Directive.  Presenting its ‘most ambitious package of measures’ the EC …

Digital publisher Planet Sport has moved to bolster its digital sports coverage by merging with Leeds counterpart YorMedia Solutions outright.  The deal sees Planet Sport take ownership of YorMedia’s flagship Football365 and TEAMtalk online football communities as the sports media and betting publisher aims to increase its ‘audience five-fold in the next three years to more than 30 million viewers …

Raketech has acquired Spanish affiliate marketing publisher and lead generation specialist Infinileads SL, in a bid to expand its services for Latin America, Spain and Italy. Marked as an “important strategic milestone”, the acquisition of Infinileads – along with key assests Slotjava.es and Slotjava.it – sees Rakatech enhance its position within several of LatAm’s emerging markets, such as Argentina, Mexico and Peru, in addition to current Infinileads core …

Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Netherlands gambling regulatory authority, has published its policy guidelines for ‘involuntary registration’ to CRUKS – Dutch gambling’s national self-exclusion scheme.  From 1 October, all KSA licensed online gambling operators are required to centralise their player databases with the CRUKS’ self-exclusion system as a legal requirement of the Netherlands new KOA Act regime regulating online gambling. KSA policies on …