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BOFCON 2016 – Trading Places Panel

SBC News BOFCON 2016 - Trading Places Panel

The fourth session of this year’s Betting on Football Conference (#bofcon) at Stamford Bridge was focused on data and trading patterns. It featured Senior Odds Compiler at Super Soccer Jeevan Jeyaratnam, Paolo Personeni of Sportsradar and Nathan Rothschild, Co-Founder of iSport Genius, with the Founder of Sportsbook Training Services Jonathan Smith moderating the ‘Trading Places – How has the availability of …

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Finnplay signs agreement with Trustly Group AB

SBC News Finnplay signs agreement with Trustly Group AB

Finland-based gaming platform provider, Finnplay, has signed an agreement with Trustly Group AB to integrate its online payment solutions. Trustly Group AB is a European FinTech company, named by Deloitte as one of Sweden’s fastest growing technology companies in 2004. Martin Prantner, CEO of Finnplay, commented: “We are delighted to partner with one of Europe’s fastest growing FinTech companies and …

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NetEnt posts 33% revenue surge driven by increased user interaction

SBC News NetEnt posts 33% revenue surge driven by increased user interaction

Updating the market, Stockholm-listed NetEnt AB declared a strong opening performance to its 2016, with the games developer recording top-line growth on all core metrics. NetEnt would announce Q1 2016 revenues of SEK 345 million (£31 million) up 33% on 2015’s corresponding SEK 258 million. Detailing its revenue growth, NetEnt governance noted that 2016 had seen a substantial increase in …

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Unibet Sports Betting App gets talkative

SBC News Unibet Sports Betting App gets talkative

Unibet has introduced a new speech-enabled intelligent interactive feature for its Sports Betting App. The revolutionary feature, which makes it easy for people to place a bet using their own words and terminology, was developed on the Teneo platform by Artificial Solutions to enable users to have a meaningful, humanlike interaction with technology. Unibet, is one of Europe’s largest and …

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Data Science Masters interns join Sky Betting & Gaming

SBC News Data Science Masters interns join Sky Betting & Gaming

Sky Betting & Gaming (SB&G) has recruited two Data Science Masters students to intern with the operator this summer with the aim of having them work on two projects; machine learning techniques to better safeguard customers and the development of a casino game recommendation engine to improve customer experience. The interns will join the company from Lancaster University’s Data Science …

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Ladbrokes announces Real Sports Global Partnership

SBC News Ladbrokes announces Real Sports Global Partnership

Real Sports Global (RSG) is delighted to announce that Ladbrokes have launched the company’s innovative 5050Sports, Real Horses, Real Dogs and Scratchcards onto its website. The deal will see the full range of RSG products become available to all Ladbrokes customers on mobile, desktop and app. This includes Michael Owen’s 5050Sports Football, Michael Vaughan’s 5050Sports Cricket, Ricky Hatton’s 5050Sports Boxing and …

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Novomatic launches Loteria de Catalunya omni-channel network

SBC News Novomatic launches Loteria de Catalunya omni-channel network

Gambling technology provider Novomatic, has confirmed the launch of its omni-channel lottery system for Loteria de Catalunya. Subsidiary Novomatic Lottery Solutions (NLS), will now maintain provisions for the Catalan lottery provider, integrating its network across retail points and on digital and mobile devices. The partnership will see Loteria de Catalunya migrate its current games portfolio online, which will further gain …

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Carla Maree Vella – Optimizer Invest: Finding enterprise opportunity within sector consolidation

SBC News Carla Maree Vella - Optimizer Invest: Finding enterprise opportunity within sector consolidation

SBC begins the week by speaking to Carla Maree Vella, Chief Executive of Malta-based technology fund Optimizer Invest regarding new venture and enterprise opportunities within the igaming and betting sectors. Leading Optimizer Invest operations, a fund that has made numerous enterprise investments within the sector, Maree Vella details that even with tougher market conditions and further saturation, igaming and betting …

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Couchmans LLP – “Social Giants eye live sport assets”

SBC News Couchmans LLP – “Social Giants eye live sport assets”

The NFL last week announced Twitter as its ‘Global Streaming’ partner, a $10 million deal which will see the social media network stream ten NFL Thursday night matches (in conjunction with CBS and NBC broadcasts). The decision to partner with Twitter, shocked sports’ insiders as it was revealed that tech giants Yahoo, Verizon and Amazon had all outbid Twitter’s winning …

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