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Andrew Cochrane, SBTech: Setting the tone for B2B services with ‘Go Big’ campaign

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SBTech will “set the tone” for the year ahead at ICE London, with a full complement of company leaders ready to welcome sports betting and gaming partners to ‘Go Big’ and join #thebigleague. We caught up with one of these leaders Andrew Cochrane, the Chief Development Officer who is heading up the ‘Go To Market’ team. He told us more …

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Andrew Cochrane, SBTech: Helping lotteries to keep pace with the sportsbook competition

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Lotteries are “turning to SBTech” for sportsbook services when their market share comes under pressure. That’s according to the firm’s Chief Development Officer Andrew Cochrane, who spoke on a panel about replicating the European Lotteries experience at this year’s Betting on Sports America (BOSA). Why is SBTech well placed to join the debate around lotteries providing sports betting in the …

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SBTech continues tier-1 form by winning Svenska Spel sportsbook tender

Svenska Spel trials ‘coupon free’ paperless purchase as next retail innovation 

SBTech has secured a further tier-1 betting systems partnership this summer, becoming the lead multi-channel sportsbook provider to Swedish state-owned gambling operator Svenska Spel. Fresh from securing lead sportsbook platform arrangements with Veikkaus Finland and The Oregon Lottery, SBTech has won the fiercely contested Svenska Spel competitive procurement process. SBTech underlined that Svenska Spel had chosen its sportsbook systems, highlighting provisions …

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Veikkaus Finland appoints SBTech to lead end-to-end sportsbook overhaul

SBC News Veikkaus Finland appoints SBTech to lead end-to-end sportsbook overhaul

Multi-channel sportsbook and systems provider SBTech has won the competitive tender to act as the lead online and retail sports betting systems provider for Veikkaus Finland. This morning, SBTech confirmed that it has won the hotly contested ‘public procurement process’ to service Finnish gambling monopoly Veikkaus, who in 2018 called for a wholesale systems upgrades improving the firm’s digital capacities …

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Assessing Europe’s influence on the emerging US market

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Sports betting is sports betting; right? Fundamentally, yes. But where the US market and its European counterpart are concerned, it comes in slightly different flavours. Three industry experts explain… Talk of Europe’s role as a shaping presence in the US market for sports betting became something of a leitmotif to proceedings from the moment that PASPA was consigned to the …

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SBTech extends deal to keep Sazka sportsbook in Czech

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The Czech Republic’s national lottery operator Sazka has confirmed a multi-year extension to its sportsbook partnership with SBTech. The agreement, first signed in 2016, has seen SBTech drive “substantial revenue” gains for Sazka despite significant competition from international operators, particularly since regulation for online and land-based gambling was passed in January 2017. The sportsbook product provided by SBTech, which keeps …

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Critical year-1 success sees Bethard renew with SBTech as lead betting partner

SBC News Critical year-1 success sees Bethard renew with SBTech as lead betting partner

Industry platform provider SBTech will continue to act as the lead betting services provider for new European multi-market brand Bethard (Bethard.com), after securing a comprehensive contact extension for a further five years. Launched at the start of 2018, Bethard details that SBTech’s complete sportsbook provisions have played an instrumental part in the new betting incumbent achieving its year-1 growth targets …

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Adjarabet adopts SBTech solution ahead of Armenia launch

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Georgia headquartered operator Adjarabet has upgraded to a SBTech powered sportsbook, as the firm plans to extend its reach to a further regulated market. Strengthening its position within its home territory via the SBTech powered betting solution, Adjarabet detailed that it forms “part of an aggressive strategy of consolidating its dominant position in its core market.”   A further enhancement …

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Biggest ever Betting on Football takes on truly international agenda

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It’s Betting on Football by name, but so many of the topics to be discussed at next week’s international conference are far from exclusive to the beautiful game. Held at Stamford Bridge from 20-23 March, the #bofcon2018 agenda will combine expert analysis of this year’s football frenzy with a tour of the sports betting world and a breakdown of the …

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