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Sky Betting & Gaming (Sky Bet) governance has announced that it has invested £11 million with a view of creating 200 new jobs and opening its new customer hub in Leeds City Center. Sky Bet detailed that the £11 million investment will be spent this financial year on the following: 200 new hires primarily in the technology and contact centre …

Ladbrokes marketing has been forced to pull down an email campaign featuring Manchester United Dutch footballer Memphis Depay. Memphis Depay (22) image was used in a ‘Don’t Miss Out – Money Back’ email promotion by Ladbrokes. The UK Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) branded the advertisement as ‘irresponsible’, since it featured an image of a athlete aged under 25 attached to …

With a year to go to the US presidential election, Hillary Clinton stands out as the clear favourite among UK bettors to secure the Democratic party candidacy and to win the race to The White House. Matchbook.com punters in the UK have put their money where their opinions are, placing eight times the amount of money on Clinton compared to …

Advertising watchdog, the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) is set to launch a discussion paper addressing concerns regarding the promotion and marketing of gambling products to national consumers. The discussion paper would cover gambling across racing and sports betting, gaming and other casino games, along with lotteries and scratchcards. The AANA’s paper, follows this week’s announcement that New South Wales …

Daniel Silvers one of the non-executive directors appointed to the board of bwin.party Entertainment by investment fund Springowl has stepped down from the governance position. Silvers exits the bwin.party board having withdrawn from his position as Springowl President. Recommended by bwin.party activist investor Jason Ader CEO of Springowl (owner of 5.1% of bwin.party shares). Silvers had been appointed in May …

Aiming to promote fair competition for consumers, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published invitation on the planned £6.2 billion merger of Paddy Power and Betfair (first announced in August 2015). The competition regulator has requested for assistance regarding its review of the merger, inviting comments from concerned parties. The CMA noted that any comments or concerns regarding …

A grim Saturday for bookmakers was tempered by an unexpected Sunday fillip according to data from the AccaTracker app, developed by Team FA to help people keep track of their multiple bets. On Saturday all but one of the top seven most popular accumulator matches went the way of the favourite, with Leicester’s victory over Watford and Manchester United’s defeat …

European sports betting operator bet-at-home AG continues its strong 2015 momentum recording a 9 month EBITDA profit increase (period ending 30 September) of 28.8% to €23 million (2014 Q1-Q3: €17.2 million). Despite no major summer football tournament, bet-at-home recorded an 8.9% gain in gross gaming/betting revenues to €87.5 million (2014 Q1-Q3: €80 million). bet-at-home governance was pleased to highlight that …

UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph has reported that GVC Holdings governance has rebuffed a number of offers interested in acquiring its bwin.party Entertainment assets. The Aim listed operator, stated to the newspaper that it had been approached by interested parties in the potential sale of UK bingo operator Cashcade and its B2C brand Foxy Bingo. GVC had received further interest …

New South Wales (NSW) regulators have moved to ban the advertising of live odds on sports television and radio broadcasts. The broadcasts restrictions were announced by NSW Deputy Premier Troy Grant last Friday, and are set to be implemented by March 2016. NSW restrictions will apply to sports broadcasts which are less than four hours long in duration, the restrictions …