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…
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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…
Revolving Doors At Kambi But Kristian Nylén Keeps Company In The Know
Legendary iGaming pathfinder Kristian Nylén is to step down as CEO of Swedish-origin Kambi, the betting tech company he co-founded in 2010…
Compliance? It’s A Black and White Affair For Entain
The drive to “clean-up” gambling may–quite literally, in the case of betting giant Entain–be a black and white affair, but the fading…
Phat City: The Magic Is Back In Macau
Macau, the storied Chinese gambling enclave that was almost floored by draconian travel bans and lockdowns during the recent pandemic, is back…
Stalking Horse Or Pale Rider, What The Sandler Effect Signifies For Entain
Stalking Horse or Trojan Horse, Pale Rider or Roughrider, the equine idioms to describe Ricky Sandler, a new non-executive Director of troubled…
Finalamente, All ‘bets’ Are On, Say Olá To Brazil iGaming
Finally! Sports betting and iGaming, known as ‘bets’ in Brazilian gambling and legislative lingo, is on. After months, if not years, of…
Winning Hand: Real Deal Altenar And Magic Bet Combo To Crack Balkans
Prominent sportsbook and iGaming software provider Altenar has formed a strategic partnership with Bulgarian operator Magic Bet. The collaboration will introduce Malta-based…
DraftKings Under Fire In Their Own Land
Sportsbook leader DraftKings is under fire on two fronts in its own land, Massachusetts, because of allegedly “unfair and deceptive” bonus bet…
Shohei The Money Ohtani
Tis the season to be jolly and the thoughts of every good iGamer turns to–what else–that vital blessing: Money! So how’s this…
Entain CEO “Private Jette” Nygaard-Andersen Jets Off Into The Corporate Sunset
Today as she jets off into the corporate sunset; trailing queries of “was she pushed or did she jump”, who cares; the…
All Change–Again–At Entain: CEO Jette Nygaard-Andersen Jettisoned
In news long predicted by iGamingFuture; Jette Nygaard-Andersen, CEO of UK Omnichannel Entain, has been dumped by the embattled gambling giant, it…
When Their Race Is Run, They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
Determined to improve the often-negative post-competitive reputation of the “Sport of Kings”, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has issued its final call…
Two Billion Dollar Baby, New York, New York, So Good You Gotta Say It Twice
Powered by “The City That Never Sleeps”, New York State has smashed the US$2 billion sports betting handle for the second month…
Flutter Affirms America Success By Listing On NYSE
Flush with the success of its America-centric FanDuel offering, the market leader and first digital sports book in the United States to…
Bowed And Bloodied But Entain Still Standing
There’s something deeply disquieting about witnessing the imminent humbling of a gambling industry giant that appears to have lost its way yet…
By Fowl Means Or Fair, The Philippines Posts Record Gambling Revenues
Like most nations, The Philippines has a long, sometimes controversial, relationship with gambling. Way back in 1521 when Ferdinand Magellan’s round-the-world naval…
Don’t Bring A Pussycat To A Dog Fight, Kindred Flies Fevered US Market
The entrance of Big Dog ESPN BET into the fevered online US sports betting pit has prompted the flight of yet another…
December Day Of Dread For UK Gambling Giant Entain
Amid a cauterwal of crises–the biggest money laundering fine in gambling history, for example, bolshie US investors, an over-ambitious expansion strategy, regulatory…
Hands Across The Water, Gambling Regulators GREF And NAGRA Forge Transatlantic Special Relationship
GREF and NAGRA, the two key European and North American gambling industry regulatory bodies, have launched a transatlantic “Special Relationship” that aims…
Catenaccio: Concluding Strategic Review, Less Is More For Catena Media
Catena Media plc has announced the completion of its strategic review initiated in May 2022, following the sale of its Italian casino…
ESPN Bet, Giant Disney Wakes Up And Smells The Lure Of US Sports Betting
Just as US sportsbook leaders FanDuel, DraftKings and BetMGM are about to go positive, after years of pioneering spade work and spending…
Yes Codere! Latin Maestros Rule The Floor In Q3
Online Latin maestros Codere delivered a killer iGaming samba in Q3, posting net gaming revenue of €43.2 million (£37.79m), 41 percent up…
It Just Gets Better And Better For Better Collective In Q3
It just gets better and better for super media Affiliate Better Collective as the Nordic-origin company took a massive stride towards overall…
FanDuel’s New York State Of Mind
Flutter has won the FanDuel as the sports betting handle in the so-called Empire State of New York broke the US$2 billion…
Achtung Maybe, German Gambling Numbers Down Yet Harms Persist
The number of active players in German gambling has declined to 30 percent of the population from the 55 percent recorded in…
Fight To Run UK Lotto Ain’t Over Until The ex-Porn King Sings
Czech mate. Anyone who thinks that the long running chess game over the fate of the UK Lottery has finally been settled…
MGM Q3 Trouble And Strife Spared By Post Covid Macau Bounce Back
MGM blushes were more than spared by the post-Covid19 revival of their Macau China division cash cow in Q3 – despite the…
Not So Super Super Group Posts Mixed Bag Q3
Despite powerful performances from its African, Mid East, North America and European operations–and posting the highest third quarter revenue in its history–,…
Amid Tumbling Stock, Flutter Affirms FanDuel US Pivot
Like millions of Irish folk who sought economic salvation in America in the 19th Century, Flutter Entertainment, increasingly, is looking across the…
Dodge & Cox, Today What’s In Entain?
As we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s “First Folio”–the very first assemblage of the Bard’s collected plays–, it seems strangely apposite,…
Less Is More For Bad Boy DraftKings As American Sportsbook Posts Awesome Q3
Following an awesome Q3, less is more for “Bad Boy” US sportsbook DraftKings as it stands on the cusp of true profitability…
Hail Caesars! Gambling Giant Posts Record Q3
Gambling and resorts leviathan Caesars Entertainment, Inc. has posted a record-breaking Q3 that saw its net revenues grow 3.7 percent to US$3…
Landmark Signings Boost Kambi Group Q3
Boosted by new landmark signings with Svenska Spel and LiveScore, and extended contracts with ATG and the Rank Group, B2B sports betting…
Double Tap, Dutch KSA Regulator Hammers iGaming Sites For Illegal Gambling Breaches
Holland’s Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) gaming regulator has hammered operators GoldWin Limited and MKC Limited with swingeing fines for illegal gambling breaches. GoldWin, operating…
Hong Kong Jockey Club’s World Pool Winner
World Pool, the unique and exciting version of commingled betting on international horse racing, hosted by the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC),…
Arrivederci Tonali: Newcastle United Midfielder Banned For Betting Breaches
Newly-relevant Newcastle United, revived by the sticky billions of Saudi oil money and the coaching acumen of Manager Eddie Howe, has been…
Prophet Betsson AB Lands Power Q3
A prophet, they say, has no or little honour in their own land; and so it’s proved for progressive, highly-regarded Betsson AB,…
Evolving Super Fast, Evolution Can’t Keep Up With Demand In Q3
B2B casino giants Evolution has released its financial data for Q3–and the first nine months of 2023–and the company is evolving so…
Boosted By Acqusitions, France’s FDJ Reports Tidy Q3 Revenue Increase
France’s national lottery operator La Française des Jeux (FDJ) has reported a 3.9 percent revenue increase to €1.875 billion (£1.632bn) for its…
Top Rankin’: Rank Group Reports Impressive Q1 Surge In NGR
Rank Group, owners of iconic British gambling brands Grosvenor Casinos and Mecca Bingo, has reported an impressive surge in Net Gaming Revenue…
888 Holdings Facing A Wider Storm As New Captain Takes The Helm
It’s a common supposition that a bad workman blames his own tools; in the case of super group 888 Holdings, which released…
Jobs A Prize Draw In Tombola’s Employment Snaffle
Flutter-owned Tombola, Europe’s biggest online bingo website, is to shed up to 250 staff, more than a third of its workforce, according…
Stay Safe: Cyber Security In The Spotlight At G2E Vegas
Given the spate of recent ransomware attacks on gambling giants MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment, it’s little surprise to hear that cyber…
Jai Sinned: Torpedoed By Taxes Betway, bet365 Exit India
By most metrics, India–the most populous nation on earth, the financial mainstay of world cricket and inventor of chess, the mother of…
Those Who Are About To Buy Salute You, Playtech Makes A Big Play On Italy
Supreme gambling software gladiator Playtech has confirmed news reports that it has launched a £500 million bid (€576.73m) to buy Italian bookies…
Slowly, Slowly Catchee Monkey, MGM’s Groundbreaking Japan Venture Inches Forward
Never has the ancient African proverb “slowly, slowly, catchee monkey” been more apposite. Doing business in Japan, to coin additional euphemisms, is…
Facing Perfect Storm, 888 Holdings Issues Heavy Q3 Revenue Warning
The 888 Holdings hit continues. Hot on the heels of Entain’s Q3 Revenue Warning, which saw some £700 million (US$854.67m) wiped off…
Take It To The MaxBet, Flutter Buys Controlling Stake In Serbian Operator
Following recent big moves in the Central and Eastern European market (CEE) by Entain and Betsson, Irish-origin heavy-hitters Flutter Entertainment has acquired…
Tumbling Dice, Entain Shares Fall As Supergroup Issues Revenue Warning
Shares in Entain plunged by nearly 12 percent in early morning trading Monday–the biggest faller in the FTSE-100–, as the UK-headquartered supergroup,…