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Betting technology services and platform supplier BetConstruct has announced its first Spanish market agreement with operator R Franco The agreement sees R Franco, a Spanish gambling legacy operator move into the sports betting market utilizing BetConstruct’s sports betting product which will give to 20,000 live matches per month. R Franco governance noted that it had been seeking a sports betting …

Sport Integrity Monitor (SportIM) has formed a betting integrity partnership with the British Basketball League (BBL). SportIM will  now observe and analyse the worldwide betting markets on British Basketball League events and work directly with the league to prevent any issues. British Basketball League will be able to take advantage of SportIM’s market-leading basketball monitoring system, which tracks over 35,000 …

Publishing its 2015 half year financial results (period ending 26 September), UK National Lottery operator Camelot UK Ltd, announced record prize payouts of £2 billion in prize money. The operator succeeded in growing total ticket sales to £3.6 billion, an increase of £145 million on the corresponding period last year. Total sales in the first six months of 2015, were …

Racecourse Media Group (RMG) has agreed an exclusive content distribution deal with sports betting software provider Betgenius. As chosen distributor Betgenuis has gained rights to stream live content and data of RMG on digital and mobile verticals to the regions of Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. The live content will be integrated alongside Betgenius’s wagering solution, allowing for the software …

SIS, supplier of betting operational provisions, has welcomed back former Operations Director Brent Dolan as Head of Horse Racing Content. Dolan was previously with SIS for 26 years, launching innovations such as virtual gaming on SIS FACTS, dedicated greyhounds channel SIS2, and the Virtual Betting Channel. His newly-created role as Head of Horse Racing Content will leverage horse racing products, …

Betfred has announced the closure of its Tote Park Wigan call centre. The call centre was inherited from its 2011 £250 million acquisition of former state-owned betting operator Tote. The closure of the call centre could see 14 full-time and 98 part-time employees lose their jobs, although the company says that, given the size of the overall enterprise, it would …

With a view to capture a modern audience amid its declining readership, Playboy Founder and Editor in-Chief Hugh Hefner announced last week that his magazine would no longer publish fully nude female models/centrefolds. Playboy senior executives announced that February 2016 would see the last publication of its ‘nude magazine’ as the publisher takes on a social-media relevant, “PG-13” strategy. Opening …

Rank Group Plc governance has announced that Non-Executive Director Tim Scoble is to step down from its board. Scoble leaves the gambling operator following five years’ board service. Scoble was charged with leading and advising Rank Group’s governance remuneration committee. The operator informed that Scoble had decided to step down from its board as outside commitments had grown substantially. Scoble …

The fight against corruption in sport moved up a gear today when ESSA, the body representing most of the world’s biggest regulated betting firms, urged the EU to endorse plans to ensure betting integrity across Europe and to use its standing to promote the approach worldwide. Unveiling the British Integrity Action Plan at the European Parliament, Mike O’Kane, ESSA Chairman …

Rank Group governance remains fully confident of hitting its 2015 full year expectations, having recorded key metric growth on all its core business channels for the 15-week period to 11 October 2015 Updating investors and markets via an interim management statement, Rank informed that its group revenues had gained an 8% increase in a like for like basis. For its …