Tag Archives: Spain

The board of Spanish gambling operator Grupo Codere SA has unanimously approved the reappointment of Jose Antonio Martinez Sampedro as CEO. Jose Sampedro co-founded the operator and had served as CEO and President of Codere SA since May 1997 Sampedro’s reappointment follows the announcement that Codere aims to form a new business entity following the approval of the restructure of its …

La Liga’s partnership with cyber security firm COMSEC and official data provider SIS saw a record number of unofficial data scouts ejected from Spanish football grounds during the 2014/15 season. The work, undertaken with the support of Real Federación Española de Fútbol, resulted in substantial disruption to the activities of unofficial data collectors at La Liga, Liga Adelante and Segunda …

Gambling technology provider BetConstruct has continued its international services expansion by announcing the launch of Spanish and Russian language versions of BetConstruct.com Senior management stated that the fully translated business website represented a further commitment to international expansion and localised services for BetConstruct operations and products. We are happy that we can present our vision, products and services in a …

Games featuring German Cup winners Wolfsburg were predicted to be the most exciting matches last season, according to some of Europe’s best tipsters. Using data extracted from the vast bettingexpert.com tipping network, Wolfsburg’s matches were predicted to contain over 2.5 goals in almost 95 per cent of the tips, with only 5.66% of tips predicting fewer than 2.5 goals. The …

Spanish giants Real Madrid may have been trophyless this season, but there is one table that Cristiano Ronaldo’s side has topped, beating other football clubs from all over Europe. Real Madrid were the most popular side being tipped on in the past season, according to bettingexpert – Europe’s biggest community of sports tipsters, with almost 9,000 tips across the course …

A major update by the Spanish gambling regulator, La Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ), has seen the awarding of 10 new operator licenses for entry into the Spanish regulated market The DGOJ confirmed that European companies Eurobet, Merkur Interactive, SKS365 and Net Ent were amongst the operators and service providers granted license approval for market entry. The update …

Austrian bookmaker SKS365 Group GmbH has announced that it will target a Spanish online betting and gaming product within four months, having been awarded its Spanish igaming operating license. SKS365 Group, the owner of the international sports betting and gaming brand planetwin365, confirmed that it had  formally received Spanish national online licenses for betting and gaming operations, which are effective …

Spain’s Council of Ministers has banned Real Madrid & Barcelona from exclusively negotiating their television rights deals, in the upcoming and future La Liga broadcast licensing negotiations. The two biggest football clubs in La Liga (Spain’s premier football division) will be forced from 2016 to share in a collective TV Rights pool which will be distributed and controlled by La …

Spanish gambling operator Grupo CIRSA were pleased to announce an improved corporate performance for 2014 as the company finished 2014 strongly. The Barcelona based operator recorded improved revenues of 22% to €360 million for full year 2014. The improvement in revenue performance carried through to CIRSA’s top line metrics as the operator recorded a 2014 net profit of €56 million. …

Spain’s gambling regulator the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ), has pushed forward with amendments to the regulations of advertising and marketing of online gambling products to Spanish consumers. The regulator published amendments for online gambling advertising to be added its existing regulatory framework. Under the new terms all operators will have to market their products in accordance with …