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Flutter has revealed that its UK and Ireland division has contributed up to £8m in charitable initiatives this year. The news follows its three betting brands, Paddy Power, Sky Betting & Gaming (SBG) and Betfair, each forming new partnerships in recent weeks.  Meanwhile, a further £250,000 has been raised through fundraising events for its two Charities of the Year. The …

GambleAware has published new insights into the lived experience of gambling harms suffered by members of minority communities across Great Britain. New findings have been published in the ‘Minority Communities & Gambling Harms: Qualitative and Synthesis Report‘ authored by the research teams of Ipsos UK and Clearview. Research was conducted as GambleAware recognises that “gambling harms need to be understood …

SIS (Sports Information Services) is the new sponsor of the $100,000 Copa Confraternidad del Caribe on the Clásico Internacional del Caribe race day. The annual Caribbean nations thoroughbred championship day, held on 10 December at the Hipódromo Presidente Remón in Panama, attracts leading horses from Panama, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic. The competition also carries …

The Senate of Australia has approved the Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2023 (Credit and Other Measures), which will prohibit the use of credit card transactions to fund online gambling accounts. The Bill’s measures were approved by the House of Representatives last month and forwarded to the Senate for its sign-off into federal law across Australia’s six state territories. The Bill’s …

Rhino.Bet has announced Grade 1 winning jockey Henry Brooke as its horse racing ambassador for the 2023-24 jumps season. Brooke joins the Playbook Gaming-owned platform as one of the north’s leading jockeys, whose career high came in 2019 when he won the Grade 1 Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle on Cornerstone Lad.  Ceiron Jones, Head of Retention at Rhino.Bet, commented: …

Although the excitement surrounding NFTs in the sports industry has been left in 2021, and the peak of interest in such digital products observed in recent years has subsided, there still remains potential for other innovative technologies in this domain. In its 2024 Digital Trends report, IMG expressed how machine learning will have the ‘most immediate and profound impact’ on …

Logifuture, the B2B igaming services provider, has announced the expansion this week of its Simulate virtual gaming product into two new European and African markets. The move, which sees Simulate enter Kenya and Serbia, has been completed in partnership with Mozzartbet Group.   In a statement confirming the news, Logifuture described Simulate as cutting-edge gaming technology that “decides virtual results of …

HappyHour.io has confirmed the appointment of Patrick Soric as Investment & Portfolio Partner of the Malta-based igaming venture capital fund. An expert in corporate finance and private equity, Soric holds a distinguished career in investment banking in which he served as a former partner of Danske Bank (2018-2022) and Luxembourg’s Union Bancaire Privée (2022-2023). HappyHour.io cited: “As Investment & Portfolio …

Irakli Gharibashvili, the Prime Minister of Georgia, has signed an executive order to implement new gambling laws, penalties and protections. Gambling businesses in Georgia have been warned to prepare for a regulatory overhaul beginning in 2024. From 1 July 2024, the laws and amendments of the new ‘Code of Administrative Offences’ will come into force in Georgia, which oversees a …