GERMAN STATE SETS SPORTS BETTING LICENCES CONDITIONS
The body in charge of granting sports betting licences in Germany has submitted the conditions for the concessions. Germany.- Sports betting operators are setting their eyes on Hesse, the German state that is responsible under the State Treaty on Gambling…
FA COMMUNITY SHIELD: “WHY DON’T WE CANCEL IT THEN?”
A look ahead to this weekend’s FA Community Shield as Liverpool take on Manchester City at Wembley Stadium. On Sunday, goats in the yard stop bleating, seagulls stop pecking at the dirty nappies, and TV’s in the homes of Liverpool…
SVENSKA SPEL CALLS FOR BLANKET BETTING BAN ON SODRA SVEALAND.
Following a request from the Swedish Football Association (SvFF),Svenska Spel‘s Sport & Casino igaming subsidiary has suspended all betting markets relating to the Division 2 Södra Svealand football league. The decision comes after Svenska Spel has identified a number of suspicious betting patterns relating…
PUERTO RICO LEGALIZES SPORTS BETTING
Gov. Ricardo Rosselló signed on July 29 the Betting Committee Act of the Government of Puerto Rico, which greenlights an industry whose worth, according to the official press release, is estimated to reach more than $3 billion by 2023. “By signing…
MANSIONBET LANDS COMMERCIAL DEAL WITH NEWCASTLE UNITED
Gambling operator MansionBet has agreed a new deal to become the official UK betting partner of English Premier League football club Newcastle United. The deal will run for two years – covering the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons – with MansionBet…
GENIUS SPORTS TO SUPPORT GERMAN FA WITH INTEGRITY EFFORTS
The German Football Association (DFB) has appointed Genius Sports to develop and launch a new integrity programme to help prevent match-fixing and betting-related corruption. The deal will begin from the 2019-20 season, with Genius Sports to use its Bet Monitoring…
CLARION ANNOUNCES DATE AND VENUE OF ONLINE GAMING SUMMIT BRAZIL 2019
Clarion Events Brazil, a subsidiary of Clarion Gaming, has confirmed the second edition of Online Gaming Summit Brazil (OGS). It will take place on the same date as last year’s edition, across December 9-10, and in the same city, São Paulo; but what did…
SVENSKA SPEL ‘MONITORING ALL LEAGUES’ FOLLOWING BETTING MARKET SUSPENSION
Following the confirmation that it had suspended all betting markets relating to the Division 2 Södra Svealand football league, Svenska Spel has revealed that it now ‘does not see any other solution’ to crack down on match-fixing other than to stop offering betting on…
POKER LOSES ONE OF THE BEST AS ‘MAD’ MARTY WILSON PASSES AWAY
Poker loses a star as ‘Mad’ Marty Wilson passes away after a long battle with cancer. Google ‘Marty Wilson’ and ‘Poker’, a synopsis from his Wikipedia page, screams to life. ‘Nickname: Mad.’ Assuming Wilson didn’t earn his nickname after spending…
NASDAQ AND THE FOOTBALL INDEX BECOME PARTNERS
An online sports gambling exchange in the U.K. is teaming up with NASDAQ, Inc., the company behind the NASDAQ stock exchange. The Football Index was created to allow soccer fans to buy and sell shares of players from across different leagues, and…