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Andy MacKenzie – Why the Premier League should ignore international week

SBC News Andy MacKenzie - Why the Premier League should ignore international week

Spreadex’s Andy MacKenzie bemoans the hiatus on top level league action during the international break and wants to see them carry on regardless. The international football friendly weekends prompt a collective sigh from footy fans as the Premier League and Championship fixtures take a back-seat for usually fairly drab national affairs. And it’s the same in the betting industry too …

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Slot management is not a game of chance

SBC News Slot management is not a game of chance

Jelena Kuzmanov, product owner at Danish affiliate Better Collective, attended the recent Slot Academy in Holland on behalf of SBC News – and she found it an enlightening experience. When you walk into a slot parlour, you might think that one looks like any other – it’s just some slots, placed all over the room, not much philosophy around it. …

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Sportradar – Ulrich Harmuth – US Ambitions & US Realities…

SBC News Sportradar - Ulrich Harmuth - US Ambitions & US Realities...

Having announced an all-star ‘US Advisory Board’, with business and sports heavyweights such as Mark Cuban and Michael Jordan guiding its initiatives. SBC caught up with Ulrich Harmuth Managing Director of Sportradar AG to discuss the company’s ambitious market plans.  Harmuth details why Sportradar set-up its ‘US Advisory Board’,  the company’s entry into the market and the core differences between US sports practices/trends at both commercial …

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David Clifton – Licensing Expert – ADR requirements of the law & the LCCP

SBC News David Clifton – Licensing Expert - ADR requirements of the law & the LCCP

Gambling operators licensed by the Gambling Commission are required by LCCP social responsibility code provision 6.1.1 (which has the force of a licence condition) to: put in effect a written procedure for handling customer complaints and disputes and offer dispute resolution by an ADR provider. This is to ensure that customers with a dispute about the outcome of their gambling …

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Lee Richardson – Gaming Economics – Horseracing, betting & TV…in terminal decline?

SBC News Lee Richardson - Gaming Economics - Horseracing, betting & TV...in terminal decline?

Three years ago, British horseracing decided to pool its collective terrestrial TV rights and sell them to a single broadcaster, Channel 4 (C4), the UK’s number three broadcaster in terms of overall audience share. It meant that horseracing would no longer been seen on the BBC, the nation’s number one broadcaster, and who had pioneered coverage of the sport from …

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Scott Longley – Eyes Wide Open: eSports taps into a new world of betting

SBC News Scott Longley - Eyes Wide Open: eSports taps into a new world of betting

Reporting from last week’s EIG Berlin Expo for SBC, Scott Longley examines the commercial contexts and conditions for betting operators targeting competitive eSports, a leading theme and discussion on the EIG floor… ________________________ The main issues of the debate around the phenomenal rise of eSports and what it might mean for gambling companies looking at leveraging that interest were given …

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David Clifton – Licensing Expert -The Gambling Commission’s consultation on crime associated with gambling

SBC News David Clifton - Licensing Expert -The Gambling Commission’s consultation on crime associated with gambling

  Last year, when conducting its detailed review of the social responsibility elements of the Licence Conditions & Code of Practice (LCCP). The Gambling Commission announced that it would be consulting separately on crime provisions in the LCCP that would build on its experience gained through its growing body of casework on money laundering and criminal spend. That consultation has …

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Screen time: How MRG Systems is harnessing new technology for LBOs

SBC News Screen time: How MRG Systems is harnessing new technology for LBOs

Bryan Corbin, Technical Director at MRG Systems, explains how the firm has adapted the latest technology to enhance betting shop signage capabilities. The emergence of faster, smaller, more powerful PCs and other devices capable of driving screens and TVs has opened up new avenues and opportunities for screen display systems. What is clear is that the bespoke in-shop PC will …

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Betting Gods’ Darren Moore: Should sports tipsters be regulated?

SBC News Betting Gods' Darren Moore: Should sports tipsters be regulated?

Is it time for sports tipsters to be regulated in order to weed out bad and fradulent practices? Darren Moore of tipster website BettingGods.com asks the question. We hear it again, that dire word regulation. Aren’t we trying to renegotiate the terms of our EU membership to reduce it? Is it not just more paperwork and bureaucracy slowing down economic …

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Scott Longley – BRIC’s decay impacts regulatory debate

SBC News Scott Longley - BRIC's decay impacts regulatory debate

With the cash strapped governments of the once mighty BRIC nations, seeking to implement new economic policies to boost their dwindling funds. Scott Longley examines how the current BRIC downturn will impact betting’s regulatory debate and progress amongst emerging economies  _______________________ Like a worried bunch of Chicken Little’s, the economic commentaries have been busily scaring the world’s markets with the doleful …

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