Oceania

Australian online sports betting upstarts BetEasy, have won the rights to become official betting partner of the Australian Football League (AFL). Marketing news sources report that BetEasy, paid AU $10 million for the betting rights, the term of contract will begin from the 2015/2016 AFL season, and will last a period of five years. BetEasy replaces Tabcorp’s TAB brand as …

LOCATION: Sydney, AU JOB TYPE: Permanent The Sporting Integrity Trading Analyst will be part of Sportradar’s expanding Security Services team. Since 2004, Sportradar has provided its Fraud Detection System (FDS) to sports federations across the world in order to monitor the global betting market for signs of corruption and match-fixing. The FDS now monitors in excess of 65,000 matches each …

UK bookmaker Betfred has announced that it has shut down its Australian facing operations, just six months after its launch. Betfred Australia began operations in May 2014 after securing a licence under the Northern Territory Gaming Commission. The company had appointed former Centerbet Marketing Director Luke Brill as Managing Director of Betfred Australia. Betfred had entered the Australian market with …

Former New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade (MFAT) John Allen has been appointed Chief Executive of  the New Zealand Racing Board. Allen will join the Racing Board as its chief executive in March, after end his five-and-a-half years heading the government department in Januaray, MFAT said in a statement. He will take over from Stewart McRobie, who has acted …

Australian gambling operator Tatts Group is set to unify all its regional operations under the brand UBET. The operator’s senior management announced that it would be launching the UBET brand throughout all product verticals in Q1 of 2015. Tatts Group currently operates multiple retail and online betting verticals, including Tabonline, Queensland TAB, UniTab and TattsBet operations. The brands will be …

Social sports betting operator Favourit, has entered a platform provisions partnership with sports betting technology provider EveryMatrix.  The integration of the EveryMatrix platform will provide customers with one of the most competitive betting product ranges on the market with over 10,000 pre-match and 5,000 live betting opportunities per month. Favourit has been redesigned from the ground up as the “social …

New Zealand Racing Minister Nathan Guy identified tackling remote betting by national consumers as his number one priority. Addressing the New Zealand Racing Board’s annual meeting, Guy stated that his administration would look to tackle the growing numbers of offshore online betting operators targeting New Zealand’s consumers. In order to curb remote betting, Guy and the Racing Board of New …

Sports betting media portal Freebets,com has released an Australian app available to download from the Australian Apple iTunes store. The new app caters to the huge Australian betting market, estimated to be worth over AUD $19 billion, and has a host of innovative features that gives users information on all bookmakers’ betting offers, bonuses and incentives, as well as offering exclusive …

Casino technology provider Ainsworth Game Technology is set to enter the social gambling market, with the upcoming launch of its Players Paradise Casino, scheduled for release in January. Danny Gladstone Ainsworth GT Chief Executive said that the company could no longer afford to ignore the fast growing market, which had seen other land based casino competitors successfully enter “Whilst our …

Australian payment prepaid solution provider Emerchants Limited has announced that it has signed an agreement with corporate bookmaker, bet365, to provide their customers with reloadable payment cards. It is planned that these cards will be rolled out in the first half of 2015, pending approval from Emerchants’ sponsoring Authorised Deposit-Taking Institution (ADI). Mr Tom Cregan, Managing Director of Emerchants Limited …