National Express has signed a three year ‘Official Coach and Bus Partner’ agreement with The Jockey Club. This deal will see the UK’s largest coach operator provide dedicated services across the United Kingdom, direct to all major events in The Jockey Club’s racing calendar. As part of the new service, it’s promised that it will “provide customers with drop off …
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Argyll Entertainment are to become one of the first operators on the SBTech platform, in the United Kingdom, to bolster its in-play sports betting via the Action Betting feature. The operator behind SportNation.bet and RedZoneSports.bet is to adopt the mobile-first feature, which suggests players ‘markets of interest’ through contextual alerts and call-to-action betting options. Stuart Tilly, Chief Executive Officer of …
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The United Kingdom and France have been lauded by international sports betting integrity body ESSA, for its ‘Declaration of Intention’ to target suspicious betting practises. The governments of the two nations are to share expertise and best practises, in order help to tackle issues such as sports corruption and match-fixing through illegal and irregular sports betting. As part of the …
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MintBet has launched its new affiliate programme in partnership with Income Access, Paysafe’s marketing technology and services provider. The Irish sportsbook first announced the agreement last month, with the launch coming following a successful integration with the Income Access Network. Launched earlier this year, the MintBet brand secured licenses in both the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. It’s …
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Better Collective has continued its expansion into regulated markets, after obtaining a Romanian affiliate licence and acquiring the PariuriX brand. The developer of digital platforms for bookmaker information, iGaming communities, and betting tips, will now enter the newly regulated Southeastern European country, following recent similar examples of Pull Media in France, Germany’s WettPortal.com and CasinoLounge.co.uk in the United Kingdom. Michal …
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The 2017 Champion of Champions Snooker tournament is to receive a new title sponsor following an agreement between 188BET and Matchroom Sport. This year’s competition, due to take place at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena from Monday 6 – Sunday 12 November, is the latest addition to 188BET’s sport sponsorship portfolio, adding to recent deals with 2017 Champion Jockey Silvestre De Sousa …
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Pokerstars is set to roll out its new innovative hybrid poker game ‘Power Up’ as a real money option. It is to launch initially on the pokerstars.eu client, with the United Kingdom and rest of the world markets to follow ‘very soon,’ alongside various buy-ins of $1, $3, $7 and $15. On appearance ‘Power Up’ looks like a typical game …
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Mr Green has today announced the launch of its predictive Green Gaming tool, which is first set to hit the United Kingdom market before being rolled out to others later in the year. The tool will hand players an insight into their own risk behaviour, with it’s functionality also allowing Mr Green itself to detect when healthy playing has moved …
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Clarion Events has confirmed that a total of 91 gaming organisations from across 34 nations will be exhibiting at ICE for the first time in February 2017. Kate Chambers, Managing Director of Clarion’s gaming division, has described the large number of first time exhibitors as the ‘X Factor’ in the success story of the industry’s biggest B2B gaming event. For first …
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The CherryCasino brand will be launched in the UK after Cherry iGaming’s subsidiary PlayCherry Ltd was granted a local UK licence for gaming operators from the Gambling Commission. The company will initially use the licence for CherryCasino.com as its flagship brand. EuroSlots, a recently-relaunched white-label gaming website, will also be rolled out shortly after. Meanwhile, Sunmaker, an iGaming brand that …
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