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Rights holder will pay rumoured €500m per year to broadcast eight out of nine matches of France’s top football league every matchday  France’s Ligue 1 McDonald’s has agreed a five-year deal worth a reported €500m per year with DAZN and BeIN Sports giving the broadcasters the rights to screen matches from the country’s top football league.  According to press reports, …

Licensed bookmakers in France took €650m in stakes from French punters during the UEFA Euro 2024 championships that concluded on 14 July with Spain becoming European champions for the fourth time, according to the latest figures published by the Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ).   The total was less than that recorded during the previous Euros in 2021, said ANJ, but …

As political machinations dominate French news, Laurent Lassiaz, CEO of France’s second largest casino operator JOA Group, speaks to Gaming&Co and SBC about accessing the digital sphere, land-based growth and strategic forks in the road. Casinos play a very important role in France’s gambling landscape. With just over 200 land-based casino establishments dotted around the country’s coastal and thermal resorts, …

How will snap parliamentary elections, and a government potentially led by the far right, reshape France’s gambling sector?  Emmanuel Macron’s surprise decision to call snap legislative elections in the wake of the success of France’s far right Rassemblement National at the European elections has caused uncertainty among the country’s gaming and sports betting industry and major ructions among the country’s …

Goldman Sachs has acquired 5.4% of Kindred Group, becoming the Stockholm-listed firm’s third largest shareholder as of 31 May. The trade bodes well for Française des Jeux’s (FDJ) M&A of Kindred, but Netherlands regulatory risks are real threat to how the deal will be finalised.  While all eyes this week were on French politics, Goldman Sachs acquired a 5.4% stake …

Médiateur des Jeux, France’s gambling mediator issued its annual report this week in partnership with industry regulator Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) and urged operators to do more to prevent cases of excessive gambling. As part of four key recommendations, Denys Millet, an honorary magistrate and France’s gambling mediator, said that currently French operators are “almost systematically” delaying or rejecting …

As France’s web 3-JONUM bill secures its official sign off, the subject of iCasino regulation remains front of stakeholders’ minds of an evolving French gambling marketplace.  France’s digital safety bill was voted through by its parliament nearly two weeks ago and with the approval of the regulations surrounding the web 3 crypto-based gaming products called JONUM bringing to an end …

Efforts to reduce problem gambling are making progress but remain a priority, says French gambling regulator ANJ. The monitoring policy instituted by the Autorité Nationale des Jeux with the aim of preventing excessive gambling has paid off and produced “observable results” over the past 12 months, said the French gambling regulator. ANJ published its fourth report on the actions of …

Française des Jeux (FDJ) will continue to focus on the international development of its lottery and online sports betting and gaming activities to enable the group to become “a leading international gaming” business in 2024 and beyond. Writing in FDJ’s annual report, CEO Stéphane Pallez said the group has set itself the aim to “deploy our strategy with determination” in …

The ‘cannibalisation’ of land-based casino resorts by online portals has been in the headlines recently and fits into broader debates on regulations and how they impact the channelisation of regulated markets, a concern impacting all industry stakeholders… The recent online-offline casino cannibalisation debate that took place (albeit by proxy) between Deutsche Bank and Eilers & Krejcik (EKG) in the US …