Ozzie Crown Resorts Hit For Six, Again, Sent Packing For Tax Evasion, Money Laundering, Etc.
Hit for six, the big Australian casino clean-up continues; with Crown Resorts, the nation’s premier land-based operator, being fined a whopping A$20…
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As Entain Shares Polish Stumble, Reminds: Many A Slip Between Cup And Lip
Go easy on the Polish vodka shots. Don’t smash your empty glasses down just yet. For shares in Ladbrokes and Sportingbet owner…
Entain CEE Cleans Up, Set To Acquire Poland’s STS For £750m
With patronising jokes about “Polish plumbers” and “Polish cleaners” fast consigned to post-Brexit ennui, and the former Communist satellite now, head-for-head, economically…
Making Moves On Money Management, Dutch Government Doubles Down On Protecting Youth
Following its decision to “target untargeted gambling advertising” by imposing strict publicity controls from July 1, the Dutch government has decided to…
Sponsoring Both City And Inter, Everyone’s A Champions League Winner With LeoVegas
Somebody give that player a medal… The genius at iGaming LeoVegas Group, who came up with the brilliant proposal and plan to…
Honoré Gaming, Boosted By Youssou N’Dour, Inaugurate New Office In Senegal
Boosted by legendary singer and social activist Youssou N’Dour, premier technology and platform provider Honoré Gaming has inaugurated its state-of-the-art office facility…
Blood On The Track In The Sport Of Kings
“Havnameltdown”. Never has a name been so apposite in describing the existential crisis affecting horse racing, the sport of kings, on both…
Mexico’s PlayUZU Engages Top Influencer Facundo Gómez As Brand Ambassador
Worldwide entertainment software provider SkillOnNet is burnishing the visibility of PlayUZU–its primary licensed Mexican brand–by engaging top influencer Facundo Gómez as a…
With Chickens Coming Home To Roost, Entain Expects To Get A Roasting For Turkey
UK gambling giant Entain–owners of Ladbrokes Coral, bwin, PartyPoker, et al–is facing a mega multi-million pounds fine for historic bribery and financial…
Where’s My Pickle? The LeoVegas Slider Continues
When Big Bill Hornbuckle, the boss of MGM Resorts International, flips open his cheeseburger today, checking on the status of that all-important…
Paf Expands Presence in Latvian Gaming Market with Acquisitions from 888
Leading Nordic iGaming operator Paf has become the third largest betting company in the Latvian market with the acquisition of WilliamHill.lv and…
Boosted By AdTech, The Americas, Better Collective Achieves Record Growth in Q1
Boosted by a strategic investment in its cutting-edge AdTech platform, iGaming media Affiliate Better Collective has reported an outstanding Q1. The company…
Too Little, Too Late, It’s All Change At Kindred As Tjärnström-Wilsby Duopoly Ousted
Following a poor run of financial results, prominent iGaming players Kindred Group plc have announced all change at the top of their…
Drones, Esports, The Sopranos, We’ll Always Have Pinnacle’s Paris
Legendary iGaming Chief Executive Paris Smith has decided to step down from her position at the top of Pinnacle Sports. But while…
From Neophyte To Aristocrat, Ozzie Heavy Metal Giants End iGaming Drought With US$1.2bn Cash Flood
If at first you don’t succeed then try, and try again. Following their aborted US$3.37bn (£2.7bn) takeover bid for Playtech early last…
Latinx Marks The Spot As Codere Online Says “Si” To Significant Revenue Boost In Q1
Major Spanish and Latin American iGaming operator Codere Online has unveiled fine financial results for Q1, demonstrating substantial net revenue of €39.5…
While Xi Says Hi, It’s Wynn-Wynn For Wynn Resorts
Gambling gentry Wynn Resorts–big in Vegas, big in Macau–has reported a spectacular Q1, posting operating revenues of US$1.42 billion (£1.12bn) compared to…
bet365 Passes On The Danish, Nutmegged By ManU’s Eriksen Who Scores At Last
Following a rare tactical error, British iGaming champions bet365 have been fined over half-a-million pounds for fouling the image rights of top…
Photo Finish: LONGINES Hong Kong International Races Prize Money Nears £12 Million.
Prize money for the 2023 G1 LONGINES Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) has been upped to an all-time high of HK$118 million…
Ditching Junkets and Covid, Macau Steps Back From The Brink
So a man…invariably a man…sometimes with a bejewelled beauty on his arm…walks into a casino… It’s the foundational cliché of high-stakes gambling,…
Boosted By Bold Digital Turnaround, Caesars Entertainment Reports Strong Q1 2023 Financial Results
From vertiginous loss to near break-even in only a year, Caesars Entertainment’s bold digital gambit appears to be on the cusp of…
Playing The FanDuel Advantage, Flutter Posts A Killer Q1.
Boosted by the sterling performance of its US sportsbook, FanDuel, currently smashing all like-for-like opposition in North America, Paddy Power owner Flutter…
Soon Big Apples Won’t Grow Here, Says Garden State
While “What Goes in Vegas Stays in Vegas” has been the norm since the birth of gambling in the desert kingdom, “What…
Wham, Bam, Thank You Mam, MGM Resorts International Roars Back To Life
Buoyed by a big increase in its Las Vegas Strip action, the end of the China Covid19 lockdown and its ground-breaking billion-dollar…
Post Pazner, 888 Gives Thumbs Up To 2022 Financial Results
888 Holdings, one of the world’s leading betting and gaming companies, has released its 2022 financial results, the first since the defenestration…
The Big Fade, White Paper Lands With A Flutter
In the end the White Paper hit with something of an anti-climax, perhaps representative of the measured, collegiate, head-boy style of Number…
The Long Hello, After Months Of Dither And Delay White Paper To Be Published Today
After months, if not years, of dither and delay the UK government is finally set to deliver reform to the world’s biggest…
Breaking News: Gambling White Paper To Be Published Today
The long-awaited White Paper on gambling reform is to be published today, the UK government has confirmed. Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer will…
More Slump Than Crash, Kambi Shares Slide And Dividend Shelved After Stuttering Q1
Citing the unspecified impact of “certain non-recurring costs”, Kambi has delivered a stuttering Q1, with an immediate impact of its share price…
Top Chinese Players Snookered By Match-fixing Charges
As the so-called World Snooker Championship enters the business end of competition this week, 10 Chinese players–among them former Masters winner Yan…
Gambling’s White Paper. Where Art Thou?
Who needs a government gambling White Paper when it appears that reform is writing itself. That’s the message streaming out of the…
Embattled Ukraine Opens New Front In Gambling War Against Alleged Russian Agents
A new front has opened in Ukraine’s secretive and little reported parallel war against alleged Russian gambling interests in the embattled nation….
Ring A Bell, If Not A Gong, Iconic Rank Is Back In Business
It’s not exactly bang the gong time but mid-table gamers Rank Group are pushing for promotion after reporting very respectable growth across…
UK Sports (Betting) Facing A Summer Of Disruption
Sport, and by extension sports betting, is facing a long summer of disruption and protest. For sport, its vagaries, its excitement, its…
Super Surfer Entain Rides Wave Of Success, Smashes Towering Q1.
Looking around the competition, Omnichannel Entain has every right to think it’s got the best body on the beach. Led by its…
Betting On Gov. Action, EPL Yellow Cards Shirt Sponsorship
In a move that some critics are calling as much performative as transformative, given that impending UK government gaming reform is heavily…
Albania Says No More, AML Now’s The Score: Happy Daze In The Kingdom Of Zog
Albania? Say no more. The controversial Balkan nation has extremes of reputation, both as the birthplace of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta…
Bad Brazil Sports Betting, It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Taxman Scores
So finally, after being left in limbo in the dying days of former president Jair Bolsonaro’s outgoing administration, legalised sports betting is…
If The Boot Fits: UKGC Fines TGP Europe £300,000+ For AML Breaches
Following its mega fine of William Hill and significant sanction of the Kindred Group, the UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission (UKGC) has today…
Better Collective Announces Media Partnership with Leading Nigerian News Publisher, PUNCH
Digital sports media group Better Collective has entered the Mother Continent in a ground-breaking partnership with leading West Africa publisher, PUNCH Nigeria…
Falling Down That William Hill: Blue Chip Hit With Biggest £19.2m AML Fine In History
In a sad mark for UK gambling, Blue Chip William Hill, arguably the most famous name in British betting, has been hit…
Godzilla v. King Kong, Big Beasts Dugher and Lawson Face Off In The iGaming Jungle
Godzilla versus King Kong, there’s a metaphorical 500lb gorilla in the iGaming jungle. “Lots of hysterical nonsense is claimed about betting &…
More The Wiser, It’s Play On For Playtech With FY22 Boost
It’s only nine months ago but for Playtech it already feels like a different epoch from the labyrinthine complications of facing a…
Don’t Look Now, Kindred’s 32Red Carded While Unibets Are Off
Red faces all round at iGaming big beast Kindred Group today as the online operator was slapped with a swingeing £7.1 million…
GambleAware’s Disturbing Minorities Report
It was Benjamin Disraeli, Britain’s very first ethnic-minority prime minister, well over a hundred years ago, who famously coined the phrase: “Lies,…
Hot, Hot, Hot, Boldplay Handed Romania Licence
Following hot on the heels of its recent Gibraltar success, adding to permits to operate in the UK, Malta, Portugal and the…
Tiptoeing Through The Tulips, The Weird And Wonderful World Of Japanese Gambling
Apart from the embracing, indeed comforting, atmosphere of all-pervasive order, and the immaculate state of big city streets, the first time visitor…
Praise The Gambling Gods: Entain, Its US$170 Billion Baby And A Steady-As-She-Grows FY22
Under the canny stewardship of Chief Executive Jette Nygaard-Andersen, steady-as-she-grows Entain just gets better and better. The FTSE-100 Omnichannel has just upped…
Top Rankin’: #EmbraceEquity, iGaming Unites To Empower And Drive International Women’s Day
As the world unites to celebrate and support International Women’s Day, the iGaming industry has stepped up to the liberation diamond with…
Levelling the Playing Field: Female Demographics in iGaming
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, what better time to explore the sometimes vexed and complicated issue of equity within iGaming, focussing…