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Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has summoned a record penalty of €19.7m on Gammix Limited for offering online games of chance in the Netherlands without a licence. Enforcing its biggest fine ever, KSA noted that Gammix offers illegal online gambling games to players in the Netherlands on the websites rantcasino, betoriginal, bluvegas, cashimashi, goslot, nordslot, vegadream and scatters – and has “not taken any …

The inaugural edition of SBC Summit Rio will see 3,000 industry professionals with a keen interest in the Brazilian market convene at the Windsor Convention & Expo Center in Rio de Janeiro from March 5th – 7th.  SBC Summit Rio has answered the demands of the industry by being the first industry event to take place in Brazil in the …

The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) and British Horseracing Authority (BHA) have introduced a new equine anti-doping & medication control initiative. The deal sees the pair express their common commitment to the regulation of medicine use and zero tolerance of doping in horse racing on both sides of the Irish Sea, whilst highlighting Out of Competition Testing (OOCT) as a …

CRM specialist Xtremepush has bolstered its global presence by opening a new office in Brazil’s São Paulo.  To further strengthen its LatAm footprint, the company has hired sports betting expert Álvaro Camargo as the Country Manager of the new branch, and will be tasked with building up Xtremepush’s Brazilian client and partnership base to meet the region’s growing demand for …

B2B sportsbook and casino provider Soft2Bet has shown strong company growth for 2023 in its latest performance report.  The company’s “strongest year to date” was a result of a continuous expansion across regulated markets and a heavy focus on highly gamified products, highlighted by the key metrics. In 2023, Soft2Bet bumped its revenue with an audited growth of 46% across …

SBC’s Affiliate Leaders caught up with Edoardo Ganetti, Director of SEO at Gambling.com, ahead of his participation at the CasinoBeats Summit to discuss some of the key talking points during the SEO Chatshow titled ‘E-E-A-T and AI: frenemies or not?’, where he will appear as one of the speakers. The conversation encompassed a range of topics, delving into the correlation …

After marking another successful streak in its latest interim report, Betsson Group has been dealt a blow in Finland where its subsidiary BML Group appeared on the country’s blacklist of unlicensed operators.   In a new development, Finland’s National Police Board (NPB) placed the company next to a number of corporate entities banned from interacting with any banks, payment services and …

Through the lens of his personal experiences of gambling addiction, Lee Willows, Founder & Executive Chair of ESG Gaming – a non-profit social responsibility, sustainability and harm minimisation group – discussed consumer protection, player integrity and safeguarding. At a session in the Esports Betting Conference during ICE London 2024, Willows expressed how he used this knowledge of gambling harms to …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has achieved a principal objective, publishing the first datasets of the Gambling Survey of Great Britain (GSGB). Following consultations undertaken between 2020 and 2021, the Commission launched the GSGB project to change how data is collected on “adult gambling participation and problem gambling prevalence statistics.“ Today, wave one of the GSGB datasets was released, centered …

Sporting Solutions and sportsbook platform Playbook Engineering have agreed to extend their partnership that has now been active for seven years.  Through the agreement, Playbook Engineering and its respective brands will continue to be supplied with Odds Services from Sporting Solutions across a range of pre-game and in-play sports.  Both companies have been partners since 2017, resulting in a number …