Betting

BC’s Betting on Football conference enters its fourth year, it promises to offer a revealing insight into the Eastern European and restrictive Russian markets this year. One of the key panels that will be hosted at the conference focuses on opportunities for working in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), with commentary from respected ps […]

Holdings is currently considering alternatives to Gibraltar for its operational centre, should ‘The Rock’ be negatively affected by Brexit. The FTSE250 operators were the first stakeholders in the industry to publicly view Brexit as a ‘future risk’ to its operations. In its 2016 annual report, the company detailed that Gibraltar’s licensing remit remains ‘unclear’ regarding

makers are expecting a £5m payout to Scottish punters after One For Arthur won the Grand National. The outsider was the second victory by a Scottish-trained horse, the last being in 1979. Whilst the races at Aintree signal what is to be considered the most important weekend for bookmakers in the year, it seems the

ne Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) betting could become a reality for the state of Illinois following the introduction of a new bill. The Illinois General Assembly will consider the new bill which is intended to formalise the legal status of DFS following a 2015 advisory opinion by Attorney General Lisa Madigan that daily fantasy sports

UK government has confirmed that proposed reforms of Horserace Betting Levy regulations have been successfully passed into law following European Commission approval of the changes. Reforms will see a 10% levy being paid by all bookmakers receiving bets from UK gamblers, with a threshold of £500,000 gross profit on the charge for licensed bookmakers. UK

pean sports betting company bwin has agreed a four-year partnership deal with German Bundesliga football team Borussia Dortmund. The deal is worth an estimated €3m a year and will see bwin become the clubs ‘Champion’ partner with bwin advertising being placed prominently throughout the club’s Westfalenstadion stadium for the 2017/18 season and concluding with the

pean sports betting operator MyBet holdings SE has revealed a 29% drop in its year-on-year revenue for the first quarter of 2017.In its first quarterly statement of the year, the company posted group revenues of €8.9m, down from €12.5m in Q1 2016.The company attributed this decline to poor returns from its online sales, contributing to

slators at the European Commission have given their approval to Danish parliamentary measures designed to increase competition in the countries online bingo and horse race betting industries.A monopoly system exists in both sports with Danish operator Danske Spil A/S currently the only operator able to offer betting on horse/dog/pigeon racing and online bingo in Denmark.However

English Football Association (FA) has today confirmed the termination of its commercial deal with Ladbrokes Coral following a high level review into the sports relationship with gambling.FA officials have announced that commercial deals with all betting companies have been ceased as of this month, however the FA have confirmed that they will continue to cooperate

ookmaker and sports betting operator William Hill have today announced the signing of a three-year deal with Arena Racing Company (ARC) which will see it become the principle sponsor of the St Leger Stakes, one of the oldest horseracing festivals in the world.The three-year deal, worth an estimated £700,000 a year will see feature races