Europe

The All-in Diversity Project (AIDP) has strengthened its global advisory by confirming the addition of Birgitte Sand and Esu Ma’at as board members. Ma’at is AIDP’s first appointment which the organisation stated is ‘reflective of educational and institutional and organizational change management’. AIDP praised his appointment, pointing out that Ma’at is a ‘trans-disciplinary thought leader’ who has a distinguished track …

Mateusz Juroszek, owner and Chief Executive of STS, Poland’s biggest bookmaker tells SBC that his company is coming out of lockdown stronger having completed key management objectives in expanding the firm’s proprietary technology capacity acquiring long-term Czech IT partner Betsy.   Accelerating STS European expansion projects and initiatives, Juroszek states that his firm will be the one-to-watch for the remainder …

Sports betting platform provider FSB has confirmed that former SG Digital executive Glenn Elliott has joined the company’s executive leadership team as new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Elliott will be tasked with overseeing the company’s account management team as well as managing FSB’s five operational service divisions: Sports, Platform, Marketing, Retail and SaaS Hosting. Commenting on his new role, Elliott …

Free-to-play (FTP) sports-game provider SportCaller has extended its partnership with Coral after the duo confirmed the launch of the new Racing Super Series game. The game, which ‘delivers a fresh twist on the classic Placepot’, will give punters the chance to share in a minimum £25,000 jackpot by picking a horse to finish in the places across the first six …

LiveScore has secured an expanded set of league and competition free-to-air live streaming rights for the 2020-21 football season, including Serie A, Primeira Liga, Eredivisie and the Chinese Super League. As part of the expanded rights agreements, LiveScore will stream 306 matches from Italy’s 2020-21 Serie A campaign, which amounts to 80% of the total fixtures. LiveScore also confirmed that …

Julie Harrington, Chief Executive of British Cycling, has been selected as the new head of the British Racing Authority, effective as of 4 January 2021. In addition to working for British Cycling, Harrington is also a former member of the BHA Board and was a senior executive with Northern Racing for eight years, having also served as the Managing Director …

The QL Gaming Group (QLGG) has confirmed that it has boosted the capabilities of its BetQL subsidiary after acquiring TennisInsight, the world’s largest online tennis community. Through the acquisition, BetQL, QLGG’s sports betting analytics platform, will include statistics from both men’s and women’s professional tennis. “We envision BetQL as an all-in-one platform where users can find insightful data for all …

Ukraine’s regulated gambling marketplace developments remain on track for 2020 after President Volodymyr Zelensky formally signed the ascension of Bill-2285D, following July’s legislative approval by the Verkhovna Rada. Bill-2285D maintains the Rada-approved legislative framework and guidelines forming the ‘Ukraine Gambling Law’, a mandate which will overturn Ukraine’s 11-year prohibition of all forms of gambling except for lotteries The formation of …

Gamesys Group has lauded its ability to mitigate COVID-19 complications, implementing ‘more restrictive advertising and bonusing requirements’ across its active European markets domains. Publishing its H1 2020 interim results (period ending 30 June), Gamesys revealed that regulatory headwinds in Sweden had contributed to the decline in revenues, with implications hampering its European operations falling by 4% from £36 million to …