Technology

The board of Playtech Plc has this morning announced that Hong Kong fund TTB Partners has been granted an extension period to submit a deal to acquire the FTSE250 technology group.  TTB Partners’ previous deal submission deadline was due by 17 June, a date that has been extended to Friday 15 July, as Playtech governance informed investors that ‘discussions between …

The German Sports Betting Association (DSWV) has entered into agreements with three different fintech groups, as it seeks to bolster its payments and compliance operations.  Deals have been inked with Kerberos, DIMOCO and TrueLayer, following the launch of a partnership programme by the DSWV at the start of the year, open to companies from the sports betting value chain.  Efforts …

Rhea Craib has joined the Flows’ senior management team as the igaming technology company’s new Head of Marketing. The new hire’s tasks will revolve around the implementation of a marketing strategy with the goals of unlocking and capturing new opportunities, as well as maintaining momentum so the business continues to ‘scale at pace’.   In pursuit of this objective, Flows has …

Stats Perform has announced a new addition to its suite of sports data and AI products, launching its Opta Vision data feeds offering.  Utilising the firm’s Opta event data in conjunction with tracking data in order to create a ‘single, merged dataset’, the new offering has been released to provide greater performance insights to sports teams and improve storyline generation …

MetaRace, the world’s first NFT collectively-owned racehorse, is running its first race at Windsor racecourse today. The play-to-earn, NFT-based horseracing Dapp is built on the Caduceus blockchain, looking to bring together the oldest sport in history with virtual innovation. MetaRace’s Community Manager commented: “This is a huge milestone for MetaRace. We have a community, some of which aren’t typically horse …

PandaScore has bolstered its client services by appointing David Trehondart as Head of Customer Success of the esports data and odds provider. Trehondart joins PandaScore’s senior management team from leading US big data and intelligence services provider Palantir, where he formally served as a Deployment Strategist. Further experience has seen Trehondart manage high-profile B2B clients for Uber Eats as Restaurants …

ParionsSport en ligne, the online sportsbook of French lottery operator Française des Jeux (FDJ), has signed a deal with Sportradar.  The agreement will see the Swiss sportstech firm support ParionsSport with artificial intelligence driven, near-live sports video content, with the aim of enhancing engagement with the brand’s customers.  Sportradar’s first partnership with a French operator, ParionsSport will utilise the firm’s …

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has provided further details on its ‘Levelling Up’ plans for the next five years, as the standards body aims to assist with the UK’s post-COVID bounceback. Issuing an update this morning, the British betting and gaming trade association and standards body detailed that its members plan to generate 15,000 tech jobs over the next …

Spotlight Sports Group has announced the launch of its customised sportsbook betting hubs for the FIFA Qatar 2022 World Cup, which will be sold exclusively ‘one partner per territory’.  The content and data optimised hubs have been developed by Spotlight Sports to deliver maximum engagement with Qatar 2022 audiences, providing sportsbooks with an optimal resource for this year’s biggest global …

Sports Information Services (SIS) has reorganised its senior management team, as part of its ongoing diversification and international growth strategy.   The supplier of 24/7 live betting services has confirmed the promotion of Head of Trading, Adam Conway, to the newly formed role of Head of Competitive Gaming. A 20-year trading specialist, Conway will be charged with overseeing the full operation …