Entain Releases Q1 Trading Update: How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?
Almost on cue, as it’s circled by would-be investors and corporate raiders, under-fire UK Omnichannel Entain has released a Q1 Trading Update…
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Win Some, Lose Some, Record £650m Staked On Grand National World’s Greatest Horse Race
It took less than the proverbial blink of an eye for punters to lose an estimated £20 million (US$25m) in bets, as…
NY FY23: New York Hits It Out Of The Ballpark
In the highest-ever annual sports betting spend of any regulated US state, New York gamers have hit it out of the ballpark…
Entain: Feeding Frenzy or Break-up To Make-up?
BetMGM, bwin, Coral, Ladbrokes, PartyPoker, Sportingbet, STS, et al; who will buy these storied brands? That’s the question being posed by gambling…
Murmur On The Dancefloor, bet365 Rapped For AML Breaches
In a move that would have sent most private individuals into financial, life-changing, oblivion, bet365, owned by billionaire Denise Coates, the richest…
Bye, Bye Barry, The Man Who Almost Saved Entain’s World
Amid the chaos and churn of its recent travails, the bad dice keep tumbling for troubled UK gambling giant Entain. Barry Gibson,…
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall: Per Widerström Evokes Massive 888 Reset
Consider Per Widerström, the newly-installed CEO of over-the-William-Hill 888 Holdings, a UK Omnichannel that once bestrode iGaming and the wider gambling industry…
There May Be Trouble Ahead But Mor’s The Weizer As Playtech Unveil Impressive FY23
Omnichannel Playtech continues to go from strength-to-strength under the astute leadership of CEO Mor Weizer as the iGaming software titans post an…
Marcel Tobler of Swiss Casinos: Turning iGaming “Water” into “Wine”
After a quarter of a century in, and around, gambling; working for forensic accountants PwC, in Vegas, in Switzerland; sitting on the…
Triple Hit: The Spectacular Rise And Rise And Rise of Sportradar
Somebody give that man a bonus. A big fat bonus. For the third Financial Year in succession coming sports media betting and…
Spotlight on Booming Brazil: With Betsson’s Andre Gelfi
From sleeping giant to giant awakened, Brazil, the largest addressable market in Latin America, continues to evoke both fear and fantasy in…
Entain Scrambling To Save Its Ship of State
In further desperate measures to right its sinking ship of state, British betting leviathan Entain–which posted an £879 million (US$1.12bn) FY23 loss…
REPORTING USA: New York State Of Mind For An iGaming Cannibal In Manhattan
Two hundred years after highly-skilled weavers started smashing up the then-new technology of cloth looms because they feared for their livelihoods, the…
La Royale’s Dee Maher, Bringing A Touch of Class To iGaming Investments
After 15-years as a Legal and Compliance leader at a gamut of top iGaming firms, among them Genesis Global, Betclic, Vera&John and…
From Russia With Love: UK Lottery Operator Allwyn Borrowed Millions From Kremlin Banks
So all those rumours about the UK National Lottery’s then-wannabe operator, Allwyn, having a Russia financial connection were right all along, it’s…
Bad News, Good News, Entain’s Annus Horribilis Ends On A Bum Note
Good news? Bad news? First the bad news: For Entain there is no good news. After posting a loss, after tax, of…
UK bet365 Down Under Investigation for AML Breaches
Britain’s storied iGaming goliath bet365–the richest privately-owned betting company in the world, owned by Denise Coates, one of the richest women in…
Positive Portugalia, As iGaming Records Tumble In Q4
For a small country on the western edge of continental Europe, Portugal is making a big noise in iGaming. While sports betting…
A Winner All The Way, Soft2Bet Clinches ‘In-House Innovation of the Year’ at EGR Nordics Awards 2024
Soft2Bet’s dedication to innovation and technical excellence has been recognised by industry peers as the company won the ‘In-House Innovation of the…
Ciao Bella, High-flying Lottomatica Announce €65m Dividend On “Amazing” FY23
It’s all coming up Amore for Italian iGaming leader Lottomatica following their stock market launch on the Milan Euronext exchange in May…
All Wind And No Sales, Catena Media Dump Daly
Food for thought, if not for the fishes, following a run of near-catastrophic fiscals Catena Media have dumped their Hollywood CEO Michael…
Come September Slots, UK Government Stakes The Heart of British Betting
In a move from September that could cost the UK gambling industry hundreds of millions of pounds in lower earnings, the British…
A Nibble Today, Maybe A Bite Tomorrow, Apple Makes A Major Move On iGaming
It’s the mobile device that millions of us use to lay down our sporting wagers, through online operators and other providers, but…
All-change Kambi Looking To Reboot Following Challenging FY23
A leopard can’t change its spots but progressive Swedish-origin iGaming software leaders Kambi, in the best disruptive traditions, are looking to reboot…
Mind Boggling Billions But It’s Debt Away As Digital Rules OK For Caesars Entertainment
Driven by spectacular digital performance, US gambling leviathan Caesars Entertainment, Inc. has reported sterling Full Year results for 2023. Total revenue for…
Reader I Bought The Company, Betsson Doubles Dutch Down and Re-enters Holland Market
Three-years after pulling out of the Dutch iGaming market because of legal headwinds prompted by re-regulation, Betsson has returned to The Netherlands…
DraftKings Hits The Jackpot
Boosted by recent better-than-expected financial performance, US sportsbook and iGaming leader DraftKings has upped its fiscal guidance for 2024 and made a…
333 Million-to-One May Just Go In Penn’s Hi-wire ESPN BET Q4 Rebrand
Three hundred and thirty-three million dollars into one may just go as US gaming Omnichannel Penn Entertainment unveiled heavy-duty Q4 losses. That’s…
Diamonds Are Forever In Betsson’s FY23
Marking its Diamond Jubilee, Swedish-origin gambling pioneer and progressive iGaming heavy-hitter Betsson AB has reported group revenue of €948.2 (£810.84m) million in…
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow At Valentine’s GiG
GiG, Gaming Innovation Group, had nothing but kind words for stakeholders and iGaming lovers as it unveiled its Q4 and Full Year…
Catena Media Seeks Salvation in AI As Shares Sink After Sorry Q4
Amid calls for a corporate clear-out and plunging share value, following the publication of a sorry Q4, Catena Media is betting on…
New York Sportsbooking, Empire State Again Sets New Record
Iterating the success and wisdom of its dual US stock market listing, Flutter’s FanDuel sportsbook remains the King of New York as…
X Marks The Spot: Elon Musk and BetMGM Sign Ground-breaking iGaming Deal
In a ground-breaking, disruptive move that could crash on the rocks of ambition or power aggregation in the highly-competitive iGaming industry, social…
SUPER BOWL LVIII: The Biggest Betting Bonanza in History
Putting all off-field distractions swiftly aside, tomorrow’s Super Bowl promises the biggest single-event betting bonanza in history. According to the American Gaming…
Baby Boomer BetMGM Gets Up, Walks, Talks in FY23
Whatever the travails currently assuaging its British co-parent, Entain, premier US sportsbook BetMGM has delivered a sterling FY23 that keeps it well…
No Dividend, But Relatively Decent Fiscals Return To Calm Kindred’s Turbulent Year
Still licking its wounds from its American misadventure, the ousting of long-term CEO Henrik Tjärnström and its proposed €2.6 billion sale to…
After The Gold Rush, Gambling May Be Detrimental To Economy Says New Jersey Study
Nevada has the Vegas Strip, New Jersey Atlantic City. Together the two states, one a desert, the other green, on either side…
Compliance 2024: A Dance With The Devil Or Indispensable Tango For Two
The Great and the Good of international iGaming Compliance assembled in London yesterday at the latest iteration of iGamingFuture’s essential networking “Club”, held this year to explore the key issue of “Growth Through Compliance”….
Not With A Bang But A Whisper, Allwyn Takes Over UK Lottery Hoping Everyone’s A Winner
With a fanfare of anonymity afforded a jackpot winner who doesn’t want the publicity, Allwyn today formally took control of the UK…
How Deep Is Your Love, Flutter Goes All-in On America
Pursued by the twin Furies of greater regulatory oversight and the growing kick-back against problem gambling in its native European backyard, Flutter…
Divide And Rules, California Sports Betting Dies Another Day
That old saw, ‘if California were a country, it would be the fifth richest in the world’, runs back and forth; reminding…
Shifting Las Vegas Sands, Storied Gambling Brand Seeks Return To Home Shores
Las Vegas Sands, owner of the most storied brand in world gambling, is looking to return to home shores with a planned…
Female-Focused iCasino Betty Raises US$5m to Empower Growth
Betty, the female-focused online casino, today announced that it has raised US$5 million (£3.93m) to empower its impressive growth. The pre-Series A…
A Round of Tacos for Playmaker, Better Collective in Tasty £150m Buy-out
Super Affiliate Better Collective has made a big move on expanding its Americas presence by posting a €176 million bid (£150.52m) for…
Malta At The Crossroads: Can Charles Mizzi Crack Corruption in The Capital of World iGaming
Amid the concerted bid to clean-up this Mediterranean island nation’s fractured image for corruption and money laundering, the appointment of Charles Mizzi…
Allez Pallez! Racing To Euro Dominance, FDJ Posts €2.6bn Kindred Bid
French national lottery operator, FDJ, has posted a €2.6 billion all-cash bid (£2.22bn) for Swedish-origin iGaming operator Kindred — with the aim…
New Broom Widerström Initiates Sweeping Reforms As 888 Releases Year-end Updates
Brand new CEO Per Widerström has promised sweeping strategic upscaling at troubled 888 Holdings as the troubled UK gambling giant released a…
New York To Addabbo 360 iGaming To Its Gambling Hand
Fronted by ‘The Big Apple’, the city that never sleeps, New York State leads the world in so many things. Yet–and not…
Gamesys Sanctioned £6 Million By UKGC For Safe Gambling, AML Breaches
Gamesys Operations Limited, operator of 16 well known iGaming websites, has been sanctioned £6 million (US$7.63m) by the UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission…
bet365’s Denise Coates, iGaming’s Million-a-Week Queen Still Kickin’
Denise Coates remains a free woman in iGaming, unencumbered, as the joint-head and powerhouse of bet365, the biggest privately-owned betting business in…