Digital payment start-up Easy Payment Gateway, a new payment processor targeting aggressive expansion in the online sports betting market has confirmed that it has completed a £5.5 million venture funding round. The ‘simple integration payment API’ specialist detailed that its funding round was led by two seasoned tech investors Andreas Mihalovits and Alejandro Betancourt who believe that Easy Payment Gateway can become …

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has filed a federal court order demanding a ‘further judicial review’ of the AUS $11 billion merger of Tabcorp Holdings and Tatts Group Plc. The Tabcorp-Tatts combination to form the ‘outright Australian gambling market leader’ was approved on 20 June by the Australian Competition Tribunal (ACT). However, the ACCC who acted as the …

Updating the market, BetConstruct has secured an agreement to become lead sportsbook provisions supplier for new Spanish market online operator PASTÓN (PASTON.es). The agreement will see BetConstruct’s multi-market sports betting solution integrated within PASTÓN online gambling platform, boosting the operator’s pre-match and in-play betting offering. The new Spanish online gambling enterprise is serviced by Valencia-based gambling firm Euroapuestas Online SAU. …

John Pettit, Playtech BGT Sport’s UK, Ireland, Asia and Australia Managing Director speaks to SBC on his firm’s detailed approach to servicing independent bookmakers. Having secured new terminal contracts with a number UK independent bookmakers, Pettit details how Playtech BGT services and provisions can help ‘independents’ continue to make their mark within the ultra-competitive UK retail betting sector.    __________________________ …

Updating the market, Paddy Power has informed that it has signed a five-year broadcast deal with racing content supplier SIS (Sports Information Services), which will see the bookmaker upgrade to a ‘branded retail TV Network’ hosted by SIS services. The partnership will see Paddy Power become the first bookmaker to integrate SIS’s latest production technology, Complex Automated Production (CAP), which …

Mark Frissora ,CEO of Caesars Entertainment Corporation (CEC), is set to implement an aggressive global expansion strategy with CEC looking to grow its corporate assets ‘beyond gambling’. Last week, Frissora confirmed the appointment of two key executive hires, placing former Hard Rock International VP Marco Roca as new ‘President of Global Development’ and leisure sector M&A veteran Michael Daly as ‘VP …

European sports betting operator Unibet (Kindred Group Plc) has furthered its Australian market presence by confirming that it has entered a two-year betting partnership with Supercars Australia (formerly The V8 Australia Supercars Championship). The agreement sees Unibet become the ‘Official Betting Partner’ of the ‘Virgin Supercars Australia Championship’, the premier motor racing series for Australian tour cars. The Unibet brand, …

The UK Gambling Commission has alerted industry stakeholders to new regulations implemented on money laundering and financial transfers by the UK Government. This week the UK Government published the “The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017”, with new EU-wide regulations set to come into effect from 26 June. The new publication is set …

Malta and Tel Aviv-based industry white label and turnkey platform provider Aspire Global has been approved listing on the Stockholm Nasdaq First North Premier market. The firm now plans to make its initial public offering next Friday 7 July setting a target price of SEK 30 per share on the Stockholm Nasdaq. Aspire governance has detailed that it will initially …

FTSE-listed Playtech Plc’s sports betting technology division Playtech BGT Sports (PBS) continues its strong 2017 commercial momentum detailing that it has signed a number of self-service betting terminal (SSBT) contracts with UK & Ireland independent bookmakers. Over recent months, PBS has secured new deals with G Bet, Wilf Gilbert, Victoria Gate Casino, Sean Graham and Star Sports Mayfair. Furthermore, Playtech’s …