Sportsbook

UK bookmaker Coral has announced that it has launched Digital Sports Tech betting solutions on its platform, broadening its market choice for customers. Launched today under a ‘period of exclusivity’ with Coral, Digital Sports Tech solutions is the only industry product that enables customers to create and customise their own bets on player performance across a range of statistics and …

Mikael Pawlo the former Chief Executive and co-founder of European igaming operator Mr Green & Co (Mr Green), has invested in Gothenburg (Sweden) start-up Football Addicts (www.footballaddicts.com) the developers of next generation live score app, Forza Football. The undisclosed funding round was carried out by Pawlo’s private investment firm Derzhava, who acquired its equity from existing shareholders. Football Addicts aims to …

Following its Q3 ‘preliminary’ trading update, the governance of Frankfurt Xetra-listed mybet Holdings SE has informed investors that it will further reduce its full-year 2016 corporate revenue forecasts to between $43-46 million. Issuing a short corporate statement, mybet governance detailed that the operator had continued to witness a ‘negative trend in revenues from previous quarters’. mybet would declare that its …

Industry software and platform provider EveryMatrix has confirmed the appointment of Nicolas Fleiderman as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). A fifteen-year industry veteran, Fleiderman joins the EveryMatrix leadership team having served as a senior strategic consultant to Dutch national lottery operators De Lotto and Nederlandse Loterij. Updating the market on its leadership appointment, EveryMatrix Governance informed that Fleiderman would …

Sky Betting & Gaming’s Caroline Ackroyd has been named as the Best Finance Director of a Private Equity Company (£50m+) in the 14th annual Yorkshire Finance Director Awards. Ackroyd, who wasn’t even aware she had received a nomination, was selected from a shortlist of 32 candidates across the country. The judging process involved a panel interview with the four awards …

Spanish gambling group Grupo Codere has announced the launch of its new platform for its online sportsbook and casino verticals, hosted under its Codere.es brand. The platform launch has been additionally supported by a new fully responsive website launched last week. Optimising its sportsbook offering Codere.es will feature more in-play betting markets, faster website loading times and better user functionality …

The merger of Ladbrokes and Coral has been granted final approval by the UK Competition & Markets Authority (“CMA”), closing the £2.27 billion deal which has taken 18 months to complete (first announced June 2015). Completing its final review of Ladbrokes-Coral merger process, the authority has approved the operators sale of 359 betting shops to Betfred (322 estates) and Stan …

Arena Racing Company (ARC) has announced the brand new Northern Stayers series in association with Sun Bets, which is designed to support grassroots jump racing in the North of England. The Sun Bets Northern Stayers Series will consist of eleven qualifiers across ARC’s Northern jump racecourses, before a final worth £20,000 at Newcastle on Saturday 18 March 2017. The first race …

Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor has approved Leon.ru as the country’s fifth licensed online sports betting operator. Leon.ru has been launched by Russian retail bookmaker SRO, who currently operate 300 betting points under a state federal tax license, which was awarded to Leon.ru’s previous corporate identity of Euromir. The new operator follows Liga Stavok, 888.ru, Winline and 1xBet as an approved …

Updating the market on its year-to-date corporate performance (nine-month period ending 30 September) European sports betting operator Interwetten has reported a group revenue uplift of 27% to €50 million. Following strong consecutive quarter performances, Interwetten governance detailed that the company was targeting a ‘breakthrough of €1 billion turnover threshold’. For its YTD 2016 performance, the European operator has generated a …