The disco-themed SBC Awards provided SBC Events with a fittingly stunning finish to 2017, a year in which both its headline conferences recorded growth of more than 100%. The success of the ceremony at the Artillery Garden, which featured a silent auction that raised £1,700 for GambleAware and saw bet365 collect the Bookmaker of the Year prize for the fourth …
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SBC Events has marked the launch of its new Knowledge Centre by sharing specialist sports betting insight from a trio of industry big hitters. During last month’s Betting on Football conference at Stamford Bridge, SBC gathered valuable knowledge for sports betting and gaming professionals by conducting exclusive video interviews with speakers and high-level delegates. The first three of these videos …
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SBC Events will include an Italian flavour again at Betting on Football 2017, with an Italian Market Profile session featuring SNAI, RCS Media Group and AC Milan. Betting on Football, which is being held on 3-5 May at Stamford Bridge, has covered the Italian market every year since it started in 2014, with help from Italian lawyer Quirino Mancini, now …
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Betting on Football 2017 will underline its international credentials by delivering an extensive update on football betting markets across the globe, from an increasingly digitalised Africa, to a newly regulated Italy and the potential for legalised sports betting in Donald Trump’s North America. With less than three months to go until the fourth incarnation of the event at Stamford Bridge …
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Marathonbet CEO Viktor Hoffman has touched upon the difficulties the industry has dealing with ‘millennials’ and the different approach that might be needed to attract this youthful demographic. Speaking at a betting conference last week, Hoffmann discussed how to engage millennials, commenting: “Millennials might spend less but they engage more. They’re generally more on mobile which tends to mean less …
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The SBC Awards is the culmination of a landmark year for the betting industry, which has seen a wave of consolidation, a profitable European Championships, the rise of DFS and esports, and the inaugural Betting on Sports conference. SBC is inviting the industry to join in with the year-end celebrations and nominate companies for one of the 15 awards created …
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Speaking at BOS, Fabio Schiavolin the CEO of Italian gambling operator SNAI stated that amid industry mass industry consolidation, stakeholders and leadership should not shy away from ‘innovation’. Schiavolin is currently heading up the merger integration of SNAI with Italian gambling technology firm Cogemat (€150 million deal announced May 2015). The CEO stated that he viewed the merger as a …
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Kelly Eden is Head of TXTRADER at TXODDS, a key event and single session sponsor for the upcoming Betting on Sports Conference in London. The two-day conference is the largest of its kind within the sports betting industry, and takes place in September (15-16) at the 5-star Grange Tower Bridge Hotel. TXODDS is a data company, who specialise in the …
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Recent history has not been kind to Italian football, which this summer was rocked by football corruption charges. Faced with growing scepticism towards betting operators, BOF Italian market panel asses Italy’s current market conditions and how the industry can fight its current predicaments. Session Panel SBC Notes Quirino Mancini – Italian operators are well aware of public scepticism towards …
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Italian gambling operator Gruppo SNAI has announced that Giorgio Sandi is to step down as CEO and Chairman. Sandi’s departure from SNAI governance team, follows the operators May merger with Italian gambling technology provider Cogemat. The departure of Sandi who had led the operator since 2012, was announced following a governance meeting between SNAI and Cogemat boards. Sandi will be …
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