Tag Archives: Colombia

The World Cup’s Finest with Marathonbet’s Joe Lovelace

SBC News The World Cup’s Finest with Marathonbet’s Joe Lovelace

In The World Cup’s Finest we ask various individuals to delve into their own personal history of football’s quadrennial showpiece extravaganza, selecting a number of favourites as well as revealing what is their very first World Cup memory. Today’s bumper issue comes courtesy of Joe Lovelace, Head of PR at Marathonbet, who goes very left-field when addressing a favourite World …

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Luiz Gustavo Zonca: Sportradar AG: Insiders Take… Colombia’s Open Opportunity

SBC News Luiz Gustavo Zonca: Sportradar AG: Insiders Take... Colombia’s Open Opportunity

The opening of the US sports betting market is dominating the industry’s current context and agenda. However, all betting stakeholders should keep a close eye on Colombia’s liberalised and revamped betting marketplace.  Gaining an insiders take, SBC speaks to Luiz Gustavo Zonca, Managing Director of LATAM Sportradar AG on Colombia’s initial progress, and how its agenda could impact and influence …

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OPTIMA’s Javier Manceñido: Differentiation and flexibility to drive LatAm success

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Companies looking to enter LatAm need to look well beyond the hype about size and potential. Successful penetration of this vibrant region will require patience, attention to detail and a tailored approach to doing business. Find out more from Javier Manceñido, Vice President of Sales at OPTIMA, including why LatAm represents such a challenge for its new market incumbents, and …

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Golden Race meets the online betting challenge in LatAm

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Golden Race will target the increasing number of smartphone users in LatAm by focusing on “better interaction with online products”, and by appeasing the customer demand for more “dynamic access” to the consumption of data. This comes after Golden Race, a provider of fixed odds virtual betting games solutions, used the recent (FADJA) in Bogotá to promote some new game …

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Vamos… Sportium makes its Colombian play

SBC News Vamos... Sportium makes its Colombian play

Grupo Cirsa and Ladbrokes Coral joint venture Sportium (Sportium.es), has secured Colombia Colijuegos’ ninth online gambling licence. The Spanish online betting brand will move to launch Colombian property Sportium.com.co, aiming to become a major player in the newly regulated South American jurisdiction. Colombian news sources report that Cirsa governance has secured a 5-year Colijuegos licence valued at approximately $7 million. Last …

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Corredor Empresarial launches first campaign for BetPlayCO Colombia

SBC News Corredor Empresarial launches first campaign for BetPlayCO Colombia

Colombian lottery operator Corredor Empresarial SA has launched its first marketing campaign for new sports betting product BetPlayCO – BetPlay.com.co. Corredor Empresarial is the lottery operator of popular Colombian instant-win and football pools games; SuperAstro, LIGA14 and MegaGOL. Last September, the Bogota gambling firm became the second operator to be granted a newly sanctioned online gambling licence by Colombian gambling …

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Winning Post – How 2017 shaped up for the gambling industry

SBC News Winning Post - How 2017 shaped up for the gambling industry

Regulus Partners, the strategic consultancy focused on international gambling and related industries, takes a look at how the gambling industry fared this year in its ‘Winning Post’ column. 2017 in review: growing up? Three key themes dominated the changing shape of the online gambling market in 2017: continuing channel shift, the continued march of Point of Consumption regimes, and increased …

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Golden Race – Martin Wachter – a “gratifying” year, virtual football and 2018

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As 2017 approaches its culmination, glances are increasingly being thrown towards a huge year ahead and the Russian World Cup on the horizon. Off the back of a winning performance at the SBC Awards 2017 Martin Wachter, CEO of Golden Race, reflects on a busy year for the virtual sports provider: “For Golden Race the year 2017 has been very …

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