Irish online bookmaker BetBright this Saturday confirmed the appointment of Rich Ricci as its new Executive Chairman. Ricci (51) the former Director of Corporate Investments for Barclays Bank, is one of UK racing’s most successful owners with his stables having provided champion studs such as Douvan, Faugheen and Min. Following press speculation that Ricci would join BetBright, the operator unveiled …

Online casino authority Casinomeister (Casinomeister.com) has named Videoslots the ‘Best Online Casino of 2015’. Malta-operated Videoslots has taken home the award voted for by members of the Casinomeister forum for the second year running, beating short-listed contenders 32Red, Betat, Guts.com and Mr Green. Voting for Videoslots, Casinomeister members detailed that the casino offered attainable top value promotions, combined with an …

bwin.party Entertainment has issued a corporate statement this morning, detailing that it has suspended trading of its stock on the London Stock Exchange. The operator detailed that the UK Scheme Court Hearing had approved its acquisition by GVC Holdings, bwin.party has suspended its trading in accordance with the UK Listing Authority. Releasing the short statement bwin.party governance confirmed its delisting …

Cherry Gaming AB (Cherry AB) has confirmed the appointment of Aron Egfors as Managing Director of its Nordic focused land based gaming division ‘Restaurant Casino’ (Cherry Spelglädje AB) Egfors succeeds current Cherry Gaming CEO Fredrik Burvall as MD of the casino subsidiary. He gains promotion to MD of Cherry Spelglädje AB, following 18 years’ service with the operator. He will be tasked …

Reporting on its H1 2015/16 performance (unaudited six month period ending 31 December), the governance of Rank Group Plc, stated that it was pleased with results as like-for-like group revenues rose 5% to £370 million (H1 2014/15 – £351 million) Rank expects H1 2015/16 profits to be around the £46 million mark, up 11% on H1 2014/15 corresponding performance (£41.7 …

Yahaya Maikori Senior Partner of Law Allianz will be presenting African market development at ICE 2016 focusing on opportunities in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana & South Africa. Maikori details to SBC readers how these markets have progressed in 2015, and how consumers are developing new habits amid a fast growing and aggressive market place. Maikori has advised state governments, institutions and helped several …

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has announced that it has extended its partnership agreement with sports data supplier Sportradar. Signing the agreement both organisations stated that they were committed to strengthening their fight against match-fixing in Asia. Sportradar will continue to assist the Asian football governing body, providing the organisation with match analysis and data. The partnership will additionally see …

The governance of Interactive gambling operator NetPlay TV has stated that the company is on course to meet its corporate expectations for 2015. Issuing a market update on Thursday, NetPlay TV governance noted that key performance metrics were strong, with positive net gaming revenues and EBITDA revenues to be announced in its upcoming year end 2015 statement. In 2015 the …

In-play betting specialist Metric Gaming has confirmed that it has secured an undisclosed funding round from Las Vegas based venture financier Alternative Trading Partners (ATP) Las Vegas. The new investment will help the ‘SuperLive’ betting provider advance its mobile platform development, as it seeks further top tier partnerships within the industry. Metric Gaming governance chose not to disclose any information …

Sports betting technology provider SBTech has announced that it has extended supplier terms with European igaming operator ComeOn for a further five years. The extended partnership will see ComeOn utilise SBTech’s new gaming platform Chameleon360, and the supplier’s sports betting platform for its tablet and mobile services. ComeOn and SBTech continue their strategic turn-key partnership, which was first created in 2009 …