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Sportradar Integrity Services will deliver a series of integrity education workshops at each of Italian volleyball’s 14 SuperLega clubs during the 2016/17 season. In a first for the sport of volleyball, Italy’s Lega Pallavolo Serie A have asked Sportradar, a global leader in match-fixing prevention, detection and intelligence, to travel to each of the 14 SuperLega clubs and provide a …

Industry technology SBTech has confirmed that it has agreed terms with Romanian operator winmasters (winmasters.com) to provide the enterprise with its digital provisions for sports betting and igaming platforms. Updating the market, SBTech governance informed that winmasters would become its latest clients for its full-service sports betting platform and its best-in-class Chameleon 360 igaming system. Confirming the partnership, winmasters governance …

With sixteen nominees as opposed to the usual ten, and still the likes of Chris Froome missing out, it just goes to show that, whilst the rest of us suffered, it’s worth remembering that British sports had a good 2016.  After the best year of his career to date which pivoted him to number one in the rankings having won …

Updating the market, leading industry platform and technology provider Playtech Plc has confirmed that it has completed its acquisition of Consolidated Financial Holdings A/S (CFH Group). Playtech governance had first announced its approach for CFH Group this November, with the company prepared to pay $120 million (£95 million) for the financial trading systems developer. Confirming its deal through a regulatory …

TotoGaming, Armenia’s biggest multi-channel bookmaker, has overhauled its digital platform installing the provisions of industry technology and software supplier Digitain. The Armenian bookmaker detailed that its upgrade which will see a variety of new features, was needed in order to provide an optimal digital service for its customers. The Digitain platform installation will see the TotoGaming betting portal undertake a …

The governance of Mr Green & Co (Mr Green) has confirmed that the company has officially moved its main market listing from Sweden’s mid-size AktieTorget, to floating on the Nasdaq Nordic Market (Stockholm). The European igaming operator becomes the 76th enterprise to list at Nasdaq’s Nordic markets in 2016. This November, Mr Green’s governance announced that it would change main …

Industry news source EGR has crowned Swedish-based Unibet Group as ‘Operator of the Year’ at its EGR 2016 Operator Awards. Hosted at the HRC Artillery Garden, Unibet proved to be the night’s big winners, taking home the top industry honour of ‘Operator of the Year’ and the further awards of ‘Socially Responsible Operator’ and ‘Best Marketing Campaign’ for its multi-award winning …

FIFPro has completed its biggest ever football survey, which found that nearly 45% of players earn less than $1,000 a month, and 60% receive less than $2,000 a month. In fact, only 2% of players take home $720,000 or more per annum, and 40% of players experience late payment of wages. The ‘Global Employment Report’, which was conducted by Manchester …

Betfair expects Zach Goldsmith to maintain his Richmond Park constituency, despite resigning from the Conservative Party last October following the decision by Government to approve a third runway at Heathrow airport. Goldsmith priced at 1.3 by Betfair, will run unopposed for by the Conservative Party who have backed their former MP as an independent candidate for Richmond Park. However, Betfair …

Updating the market, Swedish Aktietorget-listed igaming operator ahaWorld has detailed that it will enter the South American betting market having acquired a majority of equity in an unnamed regional operator. ahaWorld governance informed investors that the company had signed a ‘letter of intent’ for the transaction of a 51% stake in the South American enterprise. The operator will further be …