Sportsbook

Abelson Info has sealed back-to-back commercial agreements for its live TV and streamed sports listings feed API to be utilised by LiveScore and Virgin Bet. The customised supplier of sports data and odds provisions for global betting stakeholders welcomes leading affiliate publisher LiveScore and sportsbook challenger brand Virgin Bet as new customers of its specialised live sports listing service. Abelson’s …

ComeOn has become the first wagering partner of the Canadian Premier League (CPL) – Canada’s highest-ranking professional soccer organisation. From the 2021 season, the ComeOn brand will be displayed across all CPL club jerseys as the Malta-based operator serves as the “official sports betting and online casino partner of the Canadian Premier League”. As a principal partner, ComeOn will be …

DCMS has confirmed that Malcolm Sheehan QC will lead its independent review into the collapse of BetIndex, the operating company of failed football trading platform Football Index.  Sheehan will conduct a review of the regulatory failings concerning Football Index’s collapse, which will be reported back to the government in its ongoing review of the 2005 Gambling Act. The review will …

Channel 4 will air tonight ‘Football’s Gambling Addiction’ (7:30-8:30 pm), an investigation of football’s current relationship with gambling brands, led by former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson. The documentary was commissioned last month by the terrestrial broadcaster, which had recruited the former minister and journalist to lead an investigation of football’s ‘intertwined relationship with betting and gambling operators’. In its …

Teaming up with Stats Perform’s AI team, football analysis blog TheAnalyst.com has provided its ‘empirical answer’ as to who will win this summer’s UEFA 2020 European Championships (11 June to 11 July). Crunching the numbers on teams past and present performance, against a plethora of factors determining the likely outcome of the tournament’s groups and matches – Stats Perform has …

Swedish gambling regulator BOS has called for the country’s government to end temporary restrictions on the gambling industry, following criticism of the constraints by the Constitutional Committee of the Riksdag. The temporary measures, aimed at ‘particularly risky forms of gambling’, first came into force on 2 July 2020. They have been extended several times and are currently set to run …

Sportradar has teamed up with AI video production specialist WSC Sports to launch the sports betting sector’s debut ‘Live Video Notification’ push service.    Declaring an ‘industry first’, Sportradar and WSC will provide sportsbooks with a platform to automatically publish live event video highlights to their customers via the use of mobile push notifications. Delivering real-time highlights, the live video push …

Entain Plc has announced the next 50 young UK athletes who will be supported by its continued support of the SportsAid ‘Pitching In’ programme by the Entain Foundation. Entering year three of its partnership with SportsAid, the Entain Foundation is set to reward 50 of the UK’s most promising athletes, applying their skills and commitment across 24 sporting disciplines.  The …

Alex Muscat, Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship for Malta, has announced a new ‘Nomad Residency Permit’ aimed at attracting ‘non-EU’ remote workers and helping maintain Malta’s workforce talent resources.  Revealed in collaboration with CEO of Residency Malta Agency, Charles Mizzi, and CEO of Identity Malta Agency, Anton Sevasta, the new permit will enable remote employees to work and consume in Malta …