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Paddy Power’s latest marketing campaign to mark the return of Premier League football has taken aim at the phenomenon of ‘sportswashing’, with a particular dig at ‘oil money’ in the English top-flight. Sportwashing has become a widely spoken term in the English lexicon in recent years amid a range of accusations of overseas governments using sport to whitewash allegations of …

Using data from GambleAware, the relationship between mental health and gambling harms has shown new and revealing links between mental health and betting.   Studies by Alma Economics – which used the gambling harm education group’s, Annual GB Treatment and Support Survey.1 – found that there is a ‘significant link’ between higher rates of gambling harms and worse mental health. It …

The Entain that operates today has ‘no resemblance’ to its forerunner GVC Holdings, Chairman Barry Gibson informed investors this week after the group’s H1 trading results Britain’s HMRC tax office has been conducting an investigation into Entain for a dispute involving the Turkish online betting and gaming business operated by GVC Holdings which was dissolved in 2017. In 2020, GVC …

Sports gaming technology company Low6 has launched its ‘Million Pound Predictor’ for oddschecker. The new free-to-play game built by the gamification innovator has been named a ‘first-of-its-kind’ predictor for oddschecker, where fans are challenged to correctly guess where each Premier League team will finish at the end of the 2023/24 season. Jamie Pinner, VP of Marketing at oddschecker, said: “We’re …

The reference of ‘cryptoassets’ in the White Paper, reflects the UK government’s undecided stance on governing cryptocurrency adoption as such DCMS cites the absence of specific laws barring their use for online gambling firms. Hilary Stewart-Jones, technology and digital consultant at Harris Hagan, provides an expert end-to-end breakdown on crypto disciplines remit and boundaries within UK gambling laws. ___________ Adopting …

Kambi has kept up the pace with its commercial development in 2023, signing an extension agreement with Rank Group as the latest in a series of partnerships. Rank is a long-running client of the Stockholm-listed betting and gaming supplier, having utilised the firm’s sportsbook product since 2016, including AI-backed trading, a bet builder and horse racing product. The London-listed operator, …

Further to this morning’s announcement of H1 2023 interim results, Barry Gibson, Chairman of Entain Plc, has issued a separate statement on the FTSE100 firm’s ongoing HMRC investigation. The news that corporate governance had reserved a £585m legal provision to settle the HMRC dispute related to the former Turkish business terminated in 2017 dominated Entain’s half-year results. “Whilst negotiations with …

Entain Plc stands by its growth strategy and long-term financial prospects, following a transformative H1 trading period in which the FTSE gambling group acquired four new businesses to its global portfolio.  Publishing its 2023 Interim trading results, Entain registered a net group revenue (NGR) of £2.4bn, up 14% on H1 2022 results of £2.1bn. Generating a period NGR of £1.65bn …

Rank Group Plc has confirmed the appointment of Mark Harper as Managing Director of Grosvenor Casinos. Harper will take on the position overseeing Rank’s flagship casino unit from Monday 14 August and will join the executive committee of the LSE gambling group. An expert in the management of mass-market leisure and hospitality businesses, Harper joins Rank having previously served as …

Sportstech provider Stats Perform has secured a renewal to its partnership with FootballDataCo (FDC), the data rights holder of English and Scottish top-flight football. The agreement covers several data rights packages for a 10-year period starting from the 2024/25 season, encompassing the English Premier League (EPL), Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) and English Football League (EFL). Included in the agreement …