Betfred has extended its title partnership of the British Masters, continuing the bookmaker’s relationship with the European Tour event for a further two years. As a result of the extension, the betting operator will continue its partnership with the golf tournament, along with working with the event on a range of initiates. The deal continues the firm’s growing relationship with …
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FUN88 has extended its partnership with Premier League side Newcastle United after agreeing a new long-term commercial agreement. As part of the agreement, FUN88’s logo will continue to be featured on the front of its players’ shirts and training wear for the foreseeable future. A FUN88 spokesperson stated: “FUN88 is delighted to continue its association with Newcastle United Football Club. …
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LV BET CEO Adrian Sidowski has celebrated the return of the Vanarama National League with the competition’s play-offs set to commence today. As the National League’s official betting partner, the firm has announced that it will continue to provide content, previews and odds for all of the competition’s remaining matches enhancing its fan engagement opportunities since fans cannot physically go …
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Online betting operator Parimatch has extended its partnership with the UFC until the end of 2021. It means that the firm will remain as the premier MMA organisation’s “Official Betting and Wagering Partner of UFC” for the Europe and CIS region. It comes ahead of this weekend’s bumper card of fights, which features three title bouts including the much-anticipated welterweight …
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As Test cricket returns to our screens for England vs West Indies, we gathered three of the sharpest minds in trading around the SBC roundtable to assess the future of cricket betting. We spoke to John Wright, Head of Cricket at Integral Sports Management, Spreadex senior cricket trader Jamie Nuttall and William Stephenson, Head of Data & Trading Feeds at …
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Sports betting tipster social network Bettingexpert.com has crowned TheTrollmanSha as its World Tipster Champion 2020, with the Italian winning €10,000. The annual event was created by bettingexpert to reward top tipsters within the community. Taking place from July 1 2019 – June 30 2020, TheTrollmanSha provided over 14,000 tips and was the best to guess the outcome of sporting events …
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Aston Villa has announced that its principal partnership with online betting site W88 will officially conclude at the end of the campaign with Cazoo becoming the club’s front of shirt sponsor. The W88 partnership, which was the club’s third principle partner in three years following 32Red and Unibet, has come to ‘its natural end’, according to the club. Moreover, its …
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Ahead of today’s AGM, Sportech Plc has issued a trading update, informing investors of further COVID-19 pandemic impacts and countermeasures undertaken by the LSE-listed wagering technology group. Updating investors, Sportech explained that it has implemented its pandemic cost-saving measures announced during March trading, based on its forecast scenario that global sporting events would be curtailed through to the end of …
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The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) has named Philip Chen as the new Chairman of the Club after being elected by the firm’s Board of Stewards. Chen will take over from Dr Anthony Chow, who has stepped down from the HKJC after 18 years as a Steward, two of which were as Chairman. Chen has been a member of the …
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The suspicious live betting activity from over 50% of the football matches identified by Sportradar between 2017 and 2019 emerged within the first 15 minutes, signifying a clear trend for match fixers to enter the betting markets early in the game. This was one of the headline findings revealed as part of #ProtectingGlobalSport – a social media campaign initiated by …
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