Big Apple State’s High Taxes Turn BetMGM’s Cider to Vinegar
Reflective of the often testy relationship between New Jersey and New York, it would appear that BetMGM’s initially upbeat analysis of the…
André Dubronski
Amid Surging Economic Crisis, UKGC Urges Gambling Operators: Play Safe, Play Fair
Amid the surging economic crisis spurred by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic fallout and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission…
Kansas Legalises Sports Betting, American Football’s Coming Mahomes
For Kansas City Chiefs’ fans, residing in the dominant Missouri half of their city, it’s still a Patrick Mahomes shovel-pass away but…
Less is More for Ozzie Tabcorp as they De-merge to Beat-off Great White Sharks
In a bid to boost its moribund fortunes and beat-off circling Great White sharks, Tabcorp, Australia’s premier gambling company, has decided that…
California’s Billion Dollar Online Sports Gambling Gold Rush
A battle royale is shaping up between Native American tribes and the “Three Kings” of online gaming in the USA over the…
Germany, Gambling’s Sleeping Beauty Stirred But Not Woken by Jackpot Pirates
Germany, Europe’s richest and most populous nation, is a sleeping beauty of the gambling world. Much like its uncertain, problematic reaction to…
As 888’s Acquisition Push Comes to Shove, Are We Finally Over the William Hill?
With 888.com shareholders set to vote next Monday, May 16, on acquiring the non-US assets of UK gambling icon William Hill, the…
iGF Shorts 7.0 — Metaverse, Netflix, Musk and More
Metaverse Stories. Facebook/Meta will open its first real-world store in Burlingame, California (where else?) this Monday, May 9. Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg…
Las Vegas Sands of Time Running Out for Iconic Gambling Brand
Having flogged its iconic Nevada businesses to voracious New York-based venture capitalists Apollo Global Management for a mouth-watering US$6.25 billion (£5bn/€5.9bn), Las…
MGM Lion Roars, Stalks European iGaming, Eyes LeoVegas
MGM Resorts International, the US-based big beast of the betting world is eyeing up fresh prey with a major expansion into online…
Missouri, Massachusetts, Maine: US iGaming’s Big Wheel Keeps on Turning
Regulated sports betting and iGaming continues its relentless march across America with the states of Missouri, Massachusetts and Maine now poised to…
Kenya Believe It, East Africa’s Premier Betting Industry Facing Renewed Tax War
If you woke up this sunny morning in beautiful Kenya, you could be forgiven for scratching your head and believing it’s Groundhog…
There May Be Trouble Ahead But Rank Group Bangs a Confident Gong
The Rank Group’s latest Trading Update is a warning gong of further fiscal turbulence ahead as bricks-and-mortar heavyweights wrestle to manage the…
Anyone seen the Lesser-spotted White Paper Tiger?
As the big gaming hunters of the betting world roamed the exhibition floor at the recent ICE London 2022 in search of…
One Tough Hill to Climb, 888 Holdings Report Poor Q1
The trouble with walking to the top of a hill is having to walk all the way down again, once the elation…
All’s Well, That Starts Well, Entain Reports 30 Per Cent Kick in Q1
FTSE 100 gaming giant Entain is claiming a handsome start to the year, with a reported 31 per cent rise in Net…
iGF Shorts 6.0
The Truth Will Out. In a battle for survival, the truth’s not much good if no one believes it. That’s been a…
Under African Skies: Starry-eyed Five Launch J-V with 888
It’s Africa calling for a quintet of gambling industry veterans who have announced a new joint venture with online giant 888.com. Named…
Shahriar’s Law: Da Do Run Ron, Icons Banned from Promoting Gambling
In a move designed to have maximum impact on the eve of the world’s biggest sporting tournament, licensed gambling operators in the…
Mixed Fortunes in iGaming’s Race Across America
As the host of the world-famous Kentucky Derby horse race, a two-minute sprint that generates around US$150 million (£114.44m/€135.8m) in bets each…
XLMedia Goes Large in FY21
Just as its name implies; iGaming Affiliate XLMedia has had a super-sized FY2021, with net profit rocketing by an astonishing 610 per…
Lightning Strikes Twice, Usain Bolt Electrifies Esports
No one could accuse Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, of being a couch potato. The sprinting superstar, winner of eight Olympic…
All On Board Entain’s Equality Express
Following soon on the heels of appointing a female chief executive, Jette Nygaard-Andersen, Omni-channel Entain continues its ground-breaking bid to bring gender…
Down But Not Out, Ozzie Crown Resorts Retains Licence
Crown Resorts–Australia’s largest gaming and entertainment group, founded by controversial billionaire James Packer—has been found guilty of serious money-laundering and integrity breaches…
Playtech FY/21: Steady as She Grows, But Who Will Marry Swooning Bride?
Jilted at the altar of acquisition by successive suitors, beating back the fiscal impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and now with over…
Nobody Does It Better Collective Media Acquires Canada Sports Betting
On the cusp of Ontario’s iGaming market launch, Better Collective has made a killer move by buying Canada Sports Betting (CSB) for…
Lost in Translation: On a Boom and a Roll, Esports Looks to Avoid a Bust for Cheating
By some credible accounts, esports will be worth around US$2 billion (£1.51bn/€1.81bn) this year alone — almost double its value in 2021….
Puck’s Off: Canucks, Kambi and Counting All Set for Ontario iGaming Launch
At two weeks and counting, the world’s top online gambling companies are jostling hard for prime position at the launch of Canada’s…
iGF Shorts 5.0
It’s all-in for Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, Meta, Apple–and now Netflix–as the digital lords of media, data and entertainment seek to integrate the secrets and lure of video gaming into their fast-approaching virtual reality metaverse….
Ukraine War Fall-out: Parimatch Kick Rumours of Chelski Split Into Touch
Parimatch, the Ukraine-origin iGaming heavy-hitter–who have been leading the gambling industry’s humanitarian response for its embattled homeland–has denied widespread media reports that…
Lindwall Retains Grip on Betsson: Unveils Magnificent Seven, Boosts Equality
Swedish iGaming giant Betsson AB will unveil a new look Board at its upcoming AGM this May 10, one that underlines the…
Allwyn or All Lose, Ukraine-Russia Conflict Stalks UK Lottery
As it ponders its response to losing its 28-year grip on the UK National Lottery, Camelot may have to go back to…
Down Home Alabama has a Change Of Heart, Warms to Lottery, iGaming
Alabama, the holdout deep southern state once known as “The Heart of Dixie, is moving towards legal gambling, sports betting and a…
Can 888.com Square The Magic Circle?
With the Covid-19 pandemic still bubbling away, Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine fast unravelling and unprecedented economic headwinds storming towards us, few…
Malta’s Road to Redemption: Turns Screw on Russia, Dirty Money
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine–and the retaliatory wave of international economic sanctions against president Putin and his cronies–Malta has double-downed on its…
Closing Sports Book, Less is More at Mansion Group
With Bristol City scraping the lower reaches of the Championship, the second tier of English football, it’s perhaps not surprising that their…
Bet365’s Denise Coates, Always a Good Place to Hang a Story
It’s that special time of year, as the financial results of Britain’s top gambling companies come tumbling forth; the face of Bet365…
Punters Delight, Entain Posts Top FY21
Powered by the strength-to-strength performance of its BetMGM sports betting and iGaming joint venture in the USA, and a retail bounce-back to…
In a Whole New World of Light and Wonder, Scientific Games Rebrands, Returns to Profit
As it decides to shed its lottery and sports betting verticals and rebrand as Light & Wonder, Scientific Games (SG) returned to…
Together Stronger: Better Collective Posts Record €177m FY21
Powered by a flurry of acquisitions and a big push in American action, super Affiliate Better Collective has reported a near doubling…
iGF Shorts 4.0
He Who Laughs Last Laughs Longest When leader of the UK Liberal Democrat Party, and Deputy Prime Minister in the coalition government…
Legendary Trainer Baffert Guilty of Doping, Medina Spirit Stripped of Derby Victory
Medina Spirit has been posthumously stripped of his Kentucky Derby crown—and his Hall of Fame Trainer Bob Baffert fined and banned—after a…
California Bettin’ on iGaming Gold Rush
With the spectacular success of recently launched online sports betting in New York, all eyes are now turned to California, the Golden…
Playtech Concert Party Plays a Merry Tune
Mor Weizer, the embattled Chief Executive of Playtech—the iGaming company, who are in the midst of a take-over duel of operatic proportions–was…
Cleaning House or Cutting Off One’s Nose to Spite One’s Face: NHS Rejects Gaming Sector Funding
In a controversial move that could be likened to cleaning house—or cutting of its nose to spite its face—the NHS has confirmed that…
The Devil Pays No Taxes, BGC Urges UK Gov. to Support Legal Gaming
It’s either that time of year or the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), the body that represents the British betting industry, knows…
Aloha…and Then There Was One
All things being equal, it looks like Hawaii, birthplace of Barack Obama and surfing, is finally going to legalise betting – leaving…
UKGC’s Pathfinders, Planning a Safer iGaming Route to the Top
There’s still a big hill to climb, some might even call it a mountain, but the safer gambling message, inexorably, seems to…
iGF Shorts 3.0
Trouble in Paradise. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has tumbled by an estimated US$20 billion as he struggles to create his virtual paradise of the Metaverse……
A Lacklustre FY21 for LeoVegas, Blame it on The Germans (and Dutch)
Failure to anticipate regulatory tidal flows in their home waters German and Dutch markets resulted in a lacklustre 2021 Financial Year for…