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New €3.8m Kaizen Foundation to ‘drastically change lives’

SBC News New €3.8m Kaizen Foundation to ‘drastically change lives’

Kaizen Gaming has officially established the Kaizen Foundation –  a charity organisation dedicated to supporting non-profit organisations. The European gametech company will be the sole financial backer of the foundation’s initiatives and programs – which will aim to have a significant impact in every country Kaizen Gaming operates.  The company has outlined that its projects will come to fruition in …

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Uri Poliavich, Soft2Bet: tapping into mobile gaming’s two billion players with MEGA

SBC News Uri Poliavich, Soft2Bet: tapping into mobile gaming’s two billion players with MEGA

Soft2Bet descended on the show floor at ICE London to sing the praises of its latest gamification instrument, the Motivational Engineering Gaming Application, or MEGA for short.  The new innovation takes popular mobile games across both Android and IOS and combines their APIs with MEGA to transform them into real-money gambling titles.  Revealing the “amazing” results seen from this solution …

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KSA: Decrease in match-fixing reports does not equal safer market

SBC News KSA: Decrease in match-fixing reports does not equal safer market

The Sports Betting Intelligence Unit (SBIU) of the Dutch Gaming Authority Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has published its latest findings on a number of match-fixing reports received in the period between 19 December, 2022 and 31 December, 2023.  The analysis shows that there have been considerably low numbers of instances of alleged match-fixing incidents, making out a total of 6 reports in …

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SBC Summit Tbilisi: 2024 Promises Growth and a Deep-Dive into Eastern Europe & Central Asia

SBC News SBC Summit Tbilisi: 2024 Promises Growth and a Deep-Dive into Eastern Europe & Central Asia

SBC Summit Tbilisi is poised to reclaim the spotlight on 25-26 June at the Sheraton Grand Tbilisi Metechi Palace, marking its early return after a highly successful inaugural edition in October 2023. 1,500 senior sports betting and iGaming executives will reconvene in the heart of Georgia’s capital, to solidify their foothold in the promising markets of Eastern Europe and Central …

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Lottomatica lauds Italy online market share gains ahead of SKS enlargement 

SBC News Lottomatica lauds Italy online market share gains ahead of SKS enlargement 

Lottomatica Group SPA states that it has achieved all corporate objectives of a transformative 2023, as its business prepares to become Italian gambling’s outright market leader by acquiring SKS365 Group.  Publishing its full-2023 accounts this morning, Lottomatica announced corporate revenues of €1.63bn, up 12% on FY2022 results of €1.49bn. Growth in headline revenues reflects Lottomatica generating consolidated bets (volume) of …

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German Tote and TPD ‘enrich the sport’ through tracking deal

SBC News German Tote and TPD ‘enrich the sport’ through tracking deal

The German Tote has partnered with Total Performance Data (TPD) for race tracking and data monetisation across all 19 thoroughbred racecourses and several harness tracks in the country. The deal with the horse racing data provider starts at Berlin’s Hoppegarten for the beginning of their Turf season in late March. Meanwhile, TPD is also tasked with providing data feeds and …

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SBC Webinars: Third-party providers as drivers of innovation

ESA Gaming: The dawn of non-traditional content

Technological innovation can sometimes end up in stalemate when it comes to sports betting products – something contrary to the constant push by operators to bring the lever higher with trading solutions so that they can acquire a new breed of sports betting end users.  Brands often decide that the best approach going forward is to develop their offerings in-house, …

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BHA: UKGC must ensure a genuine pilot on affordability checks

SBC News BHA: UKGC must ensure a genuine pilot on affordability checks

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) will persist in advocating for the government to comprehensively evaluate the implementation of financial risk checks on UK gambling customers.  The demand was underscored by BHA CEO, Julie Harrington, following Monday’s parliamentary debate concerning affordability checks, as proposed by the Gambling Review’s White Paper – a discussion tabled by UK Racing stakeholders. MPs were implored …

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Finland warned that gambling harms do not match gambling prevalence trends

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Finland’s Institute of Health and Welfare (THL) has expressed detailed concerns about the increasing instances of gambling-related disorders, even as Finland experiences a decline in gambling participation. The observation was made by the Health Institute during its public survey to ascertain the prevalence of moderate and problem gambling risks among Finnish adults.  The Institute, responsible for monitoring records on disorders …

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Betby introduces sportsbook to St8 with ‘no additional integrations’

bet365 extends GIG marketing compliance partnership

Betby has partnered with games aggregator St8.io in a deal that will see the supplier’s sportsbook made available to the latter’s operator partners. In using the same, single API as St8.io’s casino content, no additional integration is required, with the default API covering all resettles and rollbacks.  Betby has promised that operators will be able to go live with the …

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