Europe

Lottoland Deutschland has gained approval to launch its online lottery brokerage business in Germany. With a new licence – under its Lottoland-deutschland.de and Lottohelden-deutschland.de domains – the organisation will distribute state-licensed lotteries in the country online as a broker. Magnus von Zitzewitz, Lottoland Deutschland Managing Director, commented: “We are delighted that our licence application has finally been approved by the …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) and bet365 have settled on a fine of £582,120 related to anti-money laundering and social responsibility failures of its bingo and casino business.  These failings were discovered during a Commission compliance assessment in March last year. In total, Hillside (UK Gaming) ENC, which holds a licence for bet365’s bingo and casino products, must pay £343,035, …

Entain Plc has informed markets that Chairman Barry Gibson will resign from all corporate governance duties by the end of September 2024. Gibson will be succeeded by current interim Chief Executive Stella David, who may take over boardroom leadership duties earlier depending on the timing of the appointment of a permanent Group CEO. The announcement sees Gibson end his four-year …

Ahead of its inaugural edition, the Italian Gaming Expo (IGE) is already seeing an influx of interested parties looking to participate in the conference, some of which consist of Italian regulator Agenzia Dogane e Monopoli (ADM), together with representatives from government and industry shareholders.  With over 35 panels scheduled for the event taking place in Rome on 18 and 19 …

In his final tenure as Chairman of the Dutch Gaming Authority (KSA), René Jansen signed off the regulator’s new problem gambling report for one last time.  One for the road Jansen will step down from his duties later this year and used the report’s foreword to reflect on the KSA’s most recent achievements in terms of preventing illegal gambling and …

Intralot SPA has achieved its corporate objective of reducing its gross debt below €500m, despite witnessing a slowdown in its B2C performance. Publishing its full-year 2023 accounts, the Athens-listed gambling and lottery technology group reported revenues of €364m, a 7.3% decline from FY2022 results of €398m. The decline in headline revenues is attributed to the discontinuation of its Malta Lottery …

Swedish operators have pledged to back the terms of a memorandum proposing greater cooperation between key stakeholders on match-fixing threats. Currently under review by the Swedish government, the memorandum amends terms of the Gaming Act of 2018 to allow licensed operators to request and share more data related to suspected match-fixing incidents. Proposed amendments would establish a new framework for the …

Racing Victoria has announced a multi-year partnership with TripleSdata (tSd) and Total Performance Data (TPD). The deal will see the integration of live race tracking content from Victoria’s most frequently used racecourses into TPD’s live odds engine, generating fully automated in-the-run odds for every runner throughout the race. Carlos Santo, CEO of tripleSdata, said: “Commercialising race data has always been …

Groupe Française des Jeux SA (Groupe FDJ) has reached an agreement with Veralda for the purchase of 2.4m shares held in gambling group Kindred Group Plc  for SEK 122.5 a share.  The transaction officially marks the start of FDJ’s acquisition of Kindred, initiated in January which saw the Paris EuroNext gambling group tender a public offer of SEK 130 per …

PIN-UP.TECH, part of the PIN-UP Global international ecosystem, has announced two key personnel changes, the first of which sees Kyrylo Aistrakhanov take over the management duties. Previously CTO of PIN-UP.TECH, his new brief is to lead the business and, said the division, continue to “transform the tech segment into an adaptive structure that responds to challenges quickly and promptly, develops …