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Online gambling group 138.com (138) has moved to revamp its UK sportsbook and casino profile, utilising new industry software incumbent Dench turnkey platform solutions. The extensive partnership sees 138 migrate its 138.co.uk domain, services and customers to the Dench Core platform, seeking to revitalise its product proposition for the saturated UK online gambling marketplace. The 138 executive team details that …
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SBC Americas Editor Chris Murphy was in attendance as BtoBet officially launched its regional partnership with Wildar Gaming for Latin America (LatAm). BtoBet CEO Alessandro Fried shared his vision with journalists at the invite-only ICE press conference about both the ‘uberization of the igaming industry’ and the ‘importance of being glocal’. He defined ‘glocal’ as being present at a global …
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Playtech BGT Sports has announced the launch of its ‘Level-Up’ gamification program, seeking to enhance its partner customer engagements, loyalty and retention dynamics through real-time rewards. Updating the market, Playtech BGT details that it has delivered the best-in-class gamification program for its clients, who moving forward will be able to enhance their market offerings with ‘Level-Up engagements’ including – time-sensitive incentives, …
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Multi-channel data services provider Sports Information Services (SIS) has expanded its reach into the esports market by launching its industry-first Competitive Gaming betting product tailored to esports sportsbooks. The product was showcased at this year’s ICE conference, which showed attendees a live broadcast of players competing against one another. The match was moderated by a dedicated integrity referee, specifically trained …
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Global payments and e-merchant services provider Paysafe Group has stated its corporate intent to lead transactional services within the liberalised US sports betting market in 2019 and beyond. Yesterday at the ICE London 2019 conference, Paysafe leadership announced the launch of its industry-specific ‘single point API’, which will deliver a unified payment platform/solution for all igaming/betting incumbents. Launching its new vertical, …
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Updating stakeholders on a core corporate initiative, Stockholm-listed online gambling group Kindred Plc has announced that it is a ‘step closer’ towards launching its proprietary global datacentre solution. For the past two-years Kindred has worked in partnership with New York-based next-generation data infrastructure specialists/developers Cockroach Labs DB, aiming to deliver ‘a single, globally geo-distributed platform based on multi‑active datacentre’ supporting …
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Leading sports data, content and media rights distributor Sportradar has restructured and expanded its board of governance, reflecting the firm’s ongoing international growth strategy and the broadening of its core sports stakeholder base. Updating the market, Sportradar confirms the appointment of renowned US enterprise executive Tony Aquila as new ‘Global Chairman of Sportradar Group’. A leading figurehead in technology venture …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a growing part of business in the 21st century, with more and more industries integrating it into everyday solutions. In fact, gaming operators have started to base their choice of platform provider around the adoption of new technologies, including AI, which can ensure a better quality of service for its customers. In an interview originally …
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UK based software supplier Fincore has unveiled its new innovative facial recognition technology, aiming to increase efficiency and security for betting operators. We spoke to Fincore’s Head of Research and Development Nenad Hernjak and B2B Commercial Director Jamie Maskey, who explained how the technology can revolutionise and strengthen the social responsibility for operators on both digital and retail platforms, as well …
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OPTIMA has increased an existing partnership with the Betfred Group to provide the operator with its Omnichannel Player Account Management and Sports Betting system (OPTIMAMGS™) to enter the competitive Spanish market. Betfred Managing Director Mark Stebbings said that OPTIMA was the “natural choice” for Betfred to expand into the Spanish market. He explained: “We have partnered with Jacob Lopez and …
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