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Solid account management boosts pandemic growth for Neosurf

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Neosurf has recorded growth rates in excess of market expectations during the pandemic period, underpinned by its focused ‘solid account management’ strategy. Putting people as important as profit in the quest for brand loyalty has been crucial for the popular payments platform, which enables gamers and gamblers to pay online without credit card usage and without disclosing personal information. It …

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EarlyGame enhances data visualisation with Bayes Esports and Shadow.GG

EarlyGame enhances data visualisation with Bayes Esports and Shadow.GG

Bayes Esports and Shadow.GG will help EarlyGame to drive user engagement after agreeing to make its esports statistics and data available to the Munich-based esports, gaming and entertainment platform. The partnership will see Bayes Esports and Shadow.GG support EarlyGame with its data visualisations.  EarlyGame believes that its increased focus on data visualisations will help “users to understand and engage with …

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Gambling.com files its Nasdaq IPO notice to fuel global growth drive

SBC News Gambling.com files its Nasdaq IPO notice to fuel global growth drive

Gambling.com Group has filed an F1 notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) confirming its intent to list on the US Nasdaq. The notice disclosed that Gambling.com had recruited investment banks Jefferies, Stifel and Truist Securities to lead the IPO’s planning as underwriters, in which no target price or date has been agreed on yet. The SEC will be …

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DSWV: Federal tax approval sees GlüNeuRStv become dead on arrival

SBC News DSWV: Federal tax approval sees GlüNeuRStv become dead on arrival

Germany’s Sports Betting Association, DSWV, has lambasted the Bundesrat and Bundestag’s decision to uphold the Fourth State Treaty on Gambling’s (GlüNeuRStv) controversial tax regime. Securing its federal approval this week, Germany’s legislature ratified for GlüNeuRStv to maintain its much-disputed 5.3% wagering tax on online casino and poker verticals. Prior to the Bundesrat vote, the DSWV had called for the tax …

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Sportsflare expands into bet-on-yourself space with Gaming Stars

Sportsflare expands into bet-on-yourself space with Gaming Stars

Sportsflare, a division of Tiidal Gaming Group, has extended its reach into the bet-on-yourself sector of the esports industry by partnering with Gaming Stars. Through the partnership, Sportsflare will offer its dynamic odds pricing and automated risk management services to the B2C esports platform. Kenny Jang, co-founder of Sportsflare, commented: “This opportunity to work with Gaming Stars on a new …

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Stats Perform partners with CWI to enhance cricket offering

SBC News Stats Perform partners with CWI to enhance cricket offering

Stats Perform has added Cricket West Indies (CWI) into its portfolio of partners, incorporating exclusive and official international and domestic data and live streams from the sports authority to its official cricket service. Covering live streams, live data and news videos for all CWI home international fixtures featuring the men’s, women’s and ‘A’ teams, the sports tech provider will supply …

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Scientific Games wins instant games supplier contract for Santa Casa Portugal

SBC News Scientific Games wins instant games supplier contract for Santa Casa Portugal

Scientific Games Corporation has been selected as the exclusive instant games supplier to Portugal’s Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (Santa Casa) on a three-year contract. Santa Casa is a charitable organisation, responsible for distributing all funds generated by Portugal’s national lottery and football pool products. The lottery is Europe’s fourth-largest instant game operator with the vertical producing about $1.9bn of its annual …

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Bingo Association confirms full house for National Bingo Day

SBC News Bingo Association confirms full house for National Bingo Day

The Bingo Association has confirmed that this Sunday 27 June, all members (retail and online) will participate in the UK’s first-ever ‘National Bingo Day’. The initiative was announced last March, as the UK government published its lockdown easing roadmap, with the Bingo Association calling for all industry stakeholders to help bingo’s hospitality venues return to business.  Securing its 27 June …

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Malta placed on FATF rogue list following litany of AML discrepancies

SBC News Malta placed on FATF rogue list following litany of AML discrepancies

Malta has been placed on a greylist of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – the global AML and anti terrorist financing unit of the G7.  The EU member state has previously faced international criticism regarding issues such as the Panama Papers scandal, which saw Maltese government figures implicated in establishing offshore companies encountered little legal action, as well as …

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Catena orders €55m bond placement on Stockholm Nasdaq

SBC News Catena orders €55m bond placement on Stockholm Nasdaq

Catena Media has applied for €55 million (£4.75m) of its senior unsecured bonds to be traded on the Stockholm Nasdaq. The transaction has been authorised by Finansinspektionen, Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority, with Catena providing a new company prospectus for investors. On 9 June, Catena secured an initial floating rate for its Nasdaq bond placement, allowing the Stockholm-listed publisher to price …

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