Technology

Presenting its full year 2015 corporate results this morning (52-week period ending 29 December), William Hill governance detailed that the company had paid circa £87 million in additional UK gambling duties. The hefty tax charge would impact the FTSE listed betting operator’s top-line metric performance, with William Hill announcing FY 2015 operating profit slump of 22% to £291 million (FY …

Data expert TXODDS is offering traders the chance to experience its TXTRADER service by providing a free weekend trial from today until Sunday 28th February. This is a particularly good opportunity given that the weekend includes a host of crunch games across Europe, including Man Utd v Arsenal in the Premier League, Man City v Liverpool in the League Cup Final, …

SafeCharge, a leader in advanced payment technologies, has today announced that betting operator Paddy Power Betfair has chosen SafeCharge’s Personalised Cashier to facilitate the checkout journey of its players on a global scale. SafeCharge’s Personalised Cashier is a technology-based solution for deposits, withdrawals and diverse alternative payment methods that optimises all aspects of the payment funnel. It includes multiple approaches to assist players at …

New client acquisitions, combined with the continued growth of Tier 1 UK digital accounts (Sky B&G, Gala Coral, Ladbrokes and Betfair) have helped Playtech Plc post full-year 2015 revenues of €630 million up 38% on 2014’s corresponding €457 million. Declaring 2015 corporate results (period ending 31 December), Playtech governance was pleased to announce top-line metric growth on all its core division. …

Olympic Entertainment Group and Eden Leisure have selected BetConstruct as its supplier for sports betting systems and provisions for its new joint venture enterprise Casino Malta (St Julian’s). Gambling technology provider BetConstruct were unveiled as partner at the grand opening of Casino Malta, which will be operated by Olympic Casino management. Announcing the partnership, BetConstruct governance detailed that it had …

Leading global gaming technology group Novomatic, and Len Ainsworth, founder and majority shareholder of Ainsworth Game Technology (AGT), have announced that they have signed a purchase agreement for the shares of Len Ainsworth in AGT. The 92-year-old gaming veteran will retain his role as chairman, and Novomatic expects to keep the stake at about 53 per cent and retain Ainsworth’s ASX listing. …

Swiss lottery operator Loterie Romande has entered into a supplier partnership with Camelot Global (Camelot UK subsidiary) which will see the lottery services provider redevelop the online gaming platform for www.loro.ch. The new partnership, will see Loterie Romande, the licensed lottery operator for French-speaking Switzerland drop its long term IGT-powered Loro.ch games platform with Camelot Global acting as its main …

As reported by iGaming Business, OtherLevels has agreed a deal with bwin.party to manage the online operator’s digital communication reach across its range of mobile products. Under the agreement, the OtherLevels digital marketing platform will help bwin.party to engage users with more relevant and timely content across its mobile applications. The partnership will cover a host of key product areas, …

Mobile marketing technology and service provider, Element Wave, has appointed William Morris as its Commercial Manager.   Morris joins from Racing Post, who he joined in 2008 as a Business Development Executive, before being promoted to Head of Retail B2B in 2013. His role will be to help Element Wave continue its strong growth in the online gaming industry, following the recent …