Sportsbook

Kicking off the first day’s breakout sessions at BOS, Future Shock – Money Laundering, Data Protection & Responsible Gambling was an interactive workshop presented by David Clifton and Suzanne Davies of Clifton Davies Consultancy and Roy Ramm of Extrayard, together with comment from Jenny Williams, former CEO of the Gambling Commission. It focused on key regulatory issues affecting the betting …

Industry body The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) urges the Polish Government to change its online sports betting tax regime to one based on gross profits rather than turnover. The Polish Government adopted a Bill on 19 July to amend the existing online gambling law. Despite the stated objectives, which include reducing the size of the unregulated market, the Bill does …

London FTSE-listed online gambling operator GVC Holdings Plc (GVC) has this morning announced that Group Chief Financial Officer Richard Cooper is set to step down from its board in February 2017. GVC governance informed that Cooper has decided to leave the company in order to ‘pursue private business interests’. The operator has found a direct replacement for Cooper, confirming that …

Changing political dynamics combined with unpredictable voter behaviour has seen politics return to the top of bookmakers’ agendas. Opening Betting on Sports (BOS) ‘Politics Session,’ Matthew Shaddick Head of Political Betting at Ladbrokes detailed to delegates that the market was no longer considered ‘expensive wallpaper’ used by bookmakers for PR outreach. Detailing a ‘vibrant market,’ Shaddick stated that recent political …

Betway has moved to increase its brand coverage in the newly regulated Belgian online betting market, by securing a three-year betting partnership with Brussels-based football club RSC Anderlecht. The partnership will see the Betway brand gain enhanced branding throughout Anderlecht’s Constant Vanden Stock Stadium (capacity: 27,000) on Belgium Frist Division A match days. On signing the agreement, Anderlecht’s General Manager …

Updating its ‘US National Election’ market, Betfair has detailed that Republican candidate Donald Trump has hit his ‘lowest exchange’ price at 2.9. The Betfair exchange now gives Trump a 34% chance of winning the US Election on 8 November. In favour of Trumps White House quest, last week Hilary Clinton had to pause her presidential campaign temporarily due to illness. …

Sky Betting and Gaming welcomed 80 advanced agile practitioners from across Yorkshire, for a session focusing on how its team of delivery specialists are working in new and different ways. The talks, which reflected on twelve months of forward thinking, collaboration and partnership for the company, were led by Sky Betting and Gaming’s Lead Business Analyst Tom Holmes, who was …

BOS ‘US Sports’ panel are all in agreement that the NFL represents the ‘Golden Goose’ of US sports for European betting operators. Opening Day 2 of BOS, Don Best Sports’ Benji Cherniak inquiries the expert panel about ‘the opportunities NFL offers as a betting market?’. Cherniak’s question is met with great enthusiasm from Jamie McKitterick (Head of Sports Trading – …

Johan Styren, CEO for LeoVegas, has confirmed that its June 2016 sportsbook launch was based on the application of skills that had made the company such a success in the casino world. Styren highlighted fast load times, quick registration, easy-to-use navigation, intuitive player experience and smooth payment systems as the main points of differentiation for the new sportsbook. The mobile-focused …

Paul Witten, Commercial Director for SIS, expressed the need for sports betting markets to find the right balance between the amount of live data provided and the simplicity of the user experience. He stated that the aim for live betting environments should be to process enough data in real time to help inform a decision, without over complicating the user …