Alerting the market of its intention, Stockholm Nasdaq OMX listed gambling investment firm Nordic Leisure AB has made a formal SEK 60.9 million (£5 million) bid for sports betting solutions provider Betting Promotion SE. Nordic Leisure informed the media last week that it had reached an agreement to acquire Betting Promotion with a group of investors representing 74% of the …

UK race track operator Arena Racing Company (ARC) has announced a £600,000 investment in Uttoxeter Racecourse, to modernise its restaurant and hospitality facilities. The new restaurant facility will replace the current Silks Restaurant which ARC hopes to cater 300 guests on race days. Uttoxeter Racecourse will further improve its corporate facilities, with a view to becoming a key venue for Staffordshire …

UltraPlay announced the appointment of Borislav Borisov to the position of Chief Operating Officer. Borislav Borisov has been involved in the world of online gambling since 2007 having worked in PartyGaming and bwin.party, before joining UltraPlay. Borisov has vast experience in the online gambling space spanning across all traditional verticals and most recently eSports. In addition to his industry savvy, …

Ian Chuter, former group operations director at both William Hill and Betfair, has joined Playtech as a strategic advisor with a specific remit focusing on gaming, sports betting and M&A. Chuter, who has more than 25 years’ experience in the gaming industry, will join Playtech on November 2 following a four and a half year period at Betfair where he was …

Australian Football League (AFL) clubs are turning their backs on betting sponsorships by signing up to the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation’s ‘Gambling’s Not a Game’ program. The program which has gained significant political support, aims to remove betting advertising from AFL grounds. AFL Clubs Hawthorn, Collingwood, North Melbourne, Melbourne Victory, St. Kilde, Essendon, and the Western Bulldogs have announced that …

bwin.party brands have been blacklisted by the Romanian online gaming regulator despite the operator having re-paid €8 million in back taxes and having been approved an igaming licence by authorities. Romania’s regulator ONJN published a new blacklist of offending operators (click here to view list), which featured bwin.com, partycasino.com and partypoker.com. ONJN informed that the bwin.party brands had breached national …

Fresh from announcing his firm’s first esports centric data and integrity partnership with ESL the world’s largest eSports network, SBC catches up with Sportradar CEO & Founder Carsten Koerl. A leading figurehead in sports and wagering data, Koerl sheds insight and opinion on the growth of esports, its potential integrity challenges and the sectors development of competitive/wagering functions. ____________________________________ SBC: …

Fantasy football start-up Oulala (Oulala.com) has launched its UK monetized platform, allowing customers to compete against other users and in tournaments for real money prizes. Launched by Malta based entrepreneurs Valery Bollier and Benjamin Carlotti, Oulala is aiming to be the leader in European fantasy sports, with its games designed on player skill rather than luck. Oulala uses a unique …

Bookmakers are predicting a two-way shoot-out between acclaimed Hawaiian novelist Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life” and Derby’s Sunjeev Sahota’s “The Year of the Runaways” to win today’s 2015 Man Booker Prize. Yanagihara’s “A Little Life” at present leads the market at 5/6, and has been the leading contender since the July longlist announcement. The Hawaiian novelist whose book has been …

Virtual games specialist Kiron Interactive has gone live online in Italy after extending its retail distribution deal with SISAL. Kiron, who were the first virtual games supplier to enter the Italian market, initially went live with the operator in June 2014 to provide content via satellite to its extensive estate of nearly 4,000 point of sales. Following the success of …