Digitain, the sportsbook and casino platform provider, has opened a new office in the Romanian capital Bucharest as part of its long-term European expansion strategy. The Armenian technology specialist has achieved significant growth in Central and Eastern Europe in recent times and views the new site as an ideal location from which to broaden its customer base and service its …
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Virtually Sports: One million in-play events in 2023
Virtually Sports was founded in 2021 with a mission to create unique virtual betting games. The company is now ready to launch its initial games, including a suite of in-play titles. We spoke to CEO Mark Israney about the games and the business. SBC: What makes your new in-play games different to standard virtuals, and how do they work? Mark …
Read More »Sports IQ adds Sportradar and Genius Sports veterans to exec team
Sports IQ, the Vancouver headquartered odds maker, has bolstered its executive team with the appointments of industry veterans Neale Deeley and Kristjan Tamlak. Deeley has joined the business as Commercial Director, having spent the past eight years at Sportradar, most recently as Managing Director of US Betting. His 20-year career in the gaming industry has also included roles with William …
Read More »Bet365 World Cup review: Moroccan heroes and a Messi finale
The 2022 World Cup delivered more than its fair share of bookmaker-friendly shocks, but also a remarkable final that delighted huge numbers of punters. To assess the tournament from a bookie’s perspective, SBC News caught up with bet365’s Steve Freeth. bet365 certainly proved popular with bettors as the action unfolded in Qatar, and insights provided by Oddschecker revealed that it …
Read More »bet365 reveals total eight-figure payout after Argentina’s World Cup triumph
Lionel Messi and the Argentinian public were not the only people with reason to celebrate after the epic 2022 World Cup final, as bet365 revealed it had paid out an eight-figure sum to punters as a result of the classic. After a month of bookmaker-friendly shocks in Qatar, the final was very much an occasion for the punters. Not only …
Read More »OddsMatrix adds Kiron Interactive’s virtual sports to Data Feeds offering
OddsMatrix Data Feeds has expanded the selection of products available to its operator partners by completing the integration of Kiron Interactive’s range of virtual games. The move means that clients of the EveryMatrix-owned data solutions supplier now have access to odds, streaming and settlement for more than ten of Kiron’s premium virtual sports titles. Alexander Jones, Business Development Officer at …
Read More »Trustly’s Vasilije Lekovic: Rising to meet the challenge of onboarding users
Trustly’s VP of Gaming, Vasilije Lekovic, explains how the company revolutionised user onboarding and verification for betting and gaming operators in the Nordics, and how they will use that foundation of success to solve onboarding across Europe, the UK and North America. Get ready to witness a transformation in user onboarding for gaming across Europe and beyond. As more markets …
Read More »Sporting Solutions secures Sky Bet odds services extension
Sky Bet has renewed its long-established partnership with Sporting Solutions and will again use the betting technology supplier’s odds services in 2023. The deal will see the Flutter-owned UK bookmaker continue to use Sporting Solutions’ trading services for pre-match and in-play odds across thousands of events, encompassing a wide variety of sports. The latest renewal of the odds services agreement …
Read More »bet365’s World Cup Fan Nation Survey finds England supporters in confident mood
bet365 has put together a comprehensive customer engagement strategy for the Qatar World Cup, including a free-to-play game with big cash prizes, exclusive video content and a fan survey that found 47.79% of England supporters are confident that Gareth Southgate’s men will bring the trophy home. The F2P Tournament Predictor game, which is powered by Incentive Games, will see the …
Read More »Armenia: Creating a new Silicon Valley
Armenia has established a reputation as a centre of excellence for product development in the sportsbook and igaming industry, but gambling is just one element of the nation’s increasingly strong technology sector. The country may not yet enjoy the same kind of global profile as the more established IT powerhouses, but the number of Armenian tech success stories is growing. …
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