Greentube to Supply Full Casino Portfolio to SOFTSWISS

Greentube to Supply Full Casino Portfolio to SOFTSWISS

by November 14, 2019

Online gambling company SOFTSWISS has teamed up with casino content supplier Greentube, a division of NOVOMATIC Interactive, to boost its offering with its new partner’s full portfolio of titles.Under the terms of the recently inked agreement, SOFTSWISS will add Greentube’s ...

HSBC Lets UK Customers Self-Exclude from Gambling Transactions

HSBC Lets UK Customers Self-Exclude from Gambling Transactions

by November 14, 2019

HSBC will allow its UK customers to self-exclude from gambling transactions for at least 24 hours as anti-gambling campaigners call on banking and financial services providers to adopt measures that can help regular gamblers control their spending.UK and Europe’s largest bank ...

Cyprus Casino Watchdog Hires Due Diligence Experts to Vet Junket Promoters

Cyprus Casino Watchdog Hires Due Diligence Experts to Vet Junket Promoters

by November 14, 2019

The Cyprus Gaming and Casino Supervision Authority has reportedly tapped three international firms to perform due diligence on junket operators that will be working with Cyprus’ first integrated casino resort – City of Dreams Mediterranean – when it opens doors in late 2021....

Bet365 Sets Up DevOps Team to Progress Automation

Bet365 Sets Up DevOps Team to Progress Automation

by November 14, 2019

Online gambling giant bet365 has set up a DevOps department into its existing business to progress automation and engineering principles that optimize monitoring, reporting, and self-diagnostics/healing.The company’s newly assembled DevOps team is running out of its technolog ...

SBTech Launches Physical Sportsbook at Indiana’s Rising Star Casino

SBTech Launches Physical Sportsbook at Indiana’s Rising Star Casino

by November 13, 2019

European sports betting technology company SBTech this week debuted an on-property sportsbook at Rising Star Casino in Rising Sun, Indiana. The sports betting facility is powered by the provider and operated under the BetAmerica brand of US casino and racetrack operator Churchill ...

Latvia Increases State Budget’s Gambling Tax Share

Latvia Increases State Budget’s Gambling Tax Share

by November 13, 2019

The Latvian Saeima, known to be the Baltic nation’s parliament, today approved a set of amendments to the Law on Lotteries and Gambling Fee and Tax that provide for significant changes in the way gambling tax money is split.Under the newly adopted provisions, the state budge ...

Japanese Government Announces Casino Regulator Member Nominees

Japanese Government Announces Casino Regulator Member Nominees

by November 13, 2019

The government of Japan today revealed its nomination for head of the future casino management board, the regulatory body that will be tasked with overseeing the nation’s nascent casino industry and its participants.Japanese lawmakers have chosen to nominate Michio Kitamura ...

Global Gaming Loses Another Appeal of Swedish License Revocation

Global Gaming Loses Another Appeal of Swedish License Revocation

by November 13, 2019

Global Gaming’s bad luck in Sweden continues as the company just lost another appeal of the revocation of its license in the Scandinavian country.The Swedish Gambling Authority, Spelinspektionen, revoked Global Gaming’s license this past June, or six months after Sweden reorg ...

Microgaming Offers Volcanic Slot Experience with Volatile Slot

Microgaming Offers Volcanic Slot Experience with Volatile Slot

by November 12, 2019

Online casino content provider Microgaming this week debuted the latest addition to its ever-growing portfolio of online slots – Volatile Slot.The game was developed exclusively for Microgaming as part of the provider’s recently penned content supply deal with indie gaming st ...

Sri Lanka Tightens Sports Betting Rules, Toughens Match Fixing Penalties

Sri Lanka Tightens Sports Betting Rules, Toughens Match Fixing Penalties

by November 12, 2019

Sri Lanka has outlawed sports betting and has criminalized match fixing as part of its efforts to stamp out corruption in cricket.Cricket is arguably Sri Lanka’s most popular sport. However, it has been plagued by graft scandals in the past few years. Due to multiple alleged ...

GVC Boss Slams Online Gambling Crackdown, Addresses Cowardice Accusations

GVC Boss Slams Online Gambling Crackdown, Addresses Cowardice Accusations

by November 12, 2019

GVC Holdings boss Kenny Alexander lashed out back at a UK parliamentary group that called him a coward after the executive did not appear before MPs as they sought evidence on whether a new wave of gambling restrictions should be unleashed upon the sector.Following a six-mon ...

MGM Seeks Joint Venture Partners for MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay Casino Resorts

MGM Seeks Joint Venture Partners for MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay Casino Resorts

by November 12, 2019

Casino operator MGM Resorts International and its real estate investment trust MGM Growth Properties LLC are reportedly seeking an investor to form a joint venture that would own the company’s MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay casino resorts in Las Vegas.According to people familiar ...

PartnerMatrix to Boost Dafabet, Nextbet Gambler Acquisition Efforts

PartnerMatrix to Boost Dafabet, Nextbet Gambler Acquisition Efforts

by November 11, 2019

Provider of solutions for the global gambling industry EveryMatrix announced today a new partnership with AsianLogic, the operator of major sports betting brands Dafabet and Nextbet.Under the terms of the recently penned agreement, EveryMatrix will deliver its PartnerMatrix ...

DraftKings Exec Confirms the Company Is Exploring a “Bunch” of Options to Go Public

DraftKings Exec Confirms the Company Is Exploring a “Bunch” of Options to Go Public

by November 11, 2019

A DraftKings executive has confirmed that the sports betting and daily fantasy sports operator is exploring ways to go public and that becoming a public company had been something its management had discussed a long time ago.During an event in Manhattan on Thursday, Ezra Kuc ...

Ohio On Track to Legalize Sports Betting by Next Spring

Ohio On Track to Legalize Sports Betting by Next Spring

by November 11, 2019

Ohio is running behind other states in legalizing and regulating sports betting, but some lawmakers believe that a bill on the matter would be passed and signed by Gov. Mike DeWine by the end of the legislative session next spring.In other states where athletic gambling has ...