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Updating the market, London-listed digital payments provider SafeCharge has announced that it has undertaken a number of changes to its senior executive team. The company has confirmed that Tsach Einav will retake his former position as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Einav who until recently served as General Manager for SafeCharge Israel operations, will further join the company’s board this September. Updating …

Industry games developer Pragmatic Play continues its strong commercial momentum for 2017, announcing that it has games content partnership with platform developer and software provider GAMEIOM. Pragmatic Play’s portfolio of more than 80 proven slot titles will be made available to GAMEIOM’s operating partners, under the terms of a deal that significantly expands the provider’s market reach. The agreement will see GAMEIOM …

Industry watchdog, The Senet Group has argued that the failings of 888 shouldn’t undermine the importance of self-exclusion schemes as a way of preventing or managing problem gambling. The London-based independent body provides a self-exclusion scheme that covers all British bookmakers and allows a person to exclude themselves from multiple locations with a single call to the team. Senet states …

Kenyan sports betting group SportPesa has expanded its provisions for the UK betting market, announcing that it has launched it’s new online casino portal (https://casino.sportpesa.uk/) The bookmaker’s new casino vertical will feature over + 200 games, from industry games provider Microgaming. Updating the market, SportPesa development stated that it had created an ‘uncluttered and easy to navigate’ online casino property, …

Presenting its H1 2017 interim results, industry games provider Yggdrasil Gaming has detailed a strong momentum to its commercial operations driven by ‘accelerated growth’ as the company has secured 24 new partner operators during the period. Updating the market, Yggdrasil governance would declare a 116% increase in corporate revenues to SEK 74 million (€7 million – H1 2016: SEK 34 …

Updating the market on its H1 2017 interim results, the governance of Stockholm-listed online gambling group Cherry AB is confident of hitting its full-year targets and corporate expectations, following a strong opening six months of trade. An enlarged Cherry would report H1 2017 group revenues of SEK 1 billion (€106 million), up 192% on like-for-like 2016’s SEK 370 million. Aided …

Software solutions provider InBet Games has released DAREBS, a betting terminal which allows players to make bets on real-life events. Gaming machines, while enjoying great popularity among players, have always faced severe regulations in many jurisdictions. For example, UK law restricts the number of terminals operating with a single establishment to four, as well as placing a limit on monthly …

Updating the market, FTSE-listed GVC Holdings has informed that it has withdrawn all poker operations for the Australian market. The operator will no longer service its partypoker brand, following this month’s introduction by the Australian Senate of provisions amending the ‘2001 Interactive Gambling Bill’ banning online poker and in-play sports betting services offered by online gambling operators. partypoker, GVC’s lead …

Gibraltar and Berlin-based real money games developer Glück Games has confirmed the appointment of Rafael Razim its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). A games development veteran joins Razim Glück Games senior management team, having previously served as Managing Director of multichannel retargeting solutions firm Remintrex (2014-2017). Furthermore, Razim previously co-founded Berlin-based GimiGames, a VC-backed multiplayer skill-gaming platform, and a real-money …

Updating the market, GVC Holdings has moved to broaden its online casino content across its portfolio of websites by forming a supplier partnership with HTML5 specialist games developer Pragmatic Play. GVC will roll-out Pragmatic’s portfolio of over 80 HTML5 slots titles into a number of their brands, including in the initial phase bwin, PartyCasino, and Gamebookers. Top Pragmatic titles include …