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Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up by Dam Mad Media
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Entain Purchases Unikrn’s Esports Wagering Technology Assets
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Gamesys Posts Tasty H1 Pre-nup
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Let the Scientific Games Begin
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While iGaming platforms are free to enjoy the bounty of their innovation and enterprise in the marketplace, they must also be subject…
Global Gaming Women Announce New President
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Holland Casino Becomes Responsible Gaming Partner of Dutch Football
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Heaven Can’t Wait, DraftKings Betting on Online Deregulation to Drive Revenue
Stoked by the convergence and integration of its myriad platforms and buoyed by its record of strong customer acquisition and retention, DraftKings…
Parimatch Announces a Major Partnership with Chelsea
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Entain Joins 50 Global Leaders on Sustainability
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BGC Promises to Maintain Momentum on Player Protection
Standards body the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has pledged to “maintain the momentum” on protecting young people and promoting safer betting…
Q2 Wheel of Fortune Turns for IGT
A bold strategy of mining its debt mountain and cutting back to basics has paid off for multi-national International Game Technology (IGT)…
British and Irish Racing to Receive Increased Exposure in India
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Esports Entertainment Group Launches Fiksukasino Targeting the Finnish Market
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GambleAware to Gambling Harm Related PhDs
GambleAware has opened the call for applications from universities and other research institutions in Great Britain to fund three-year PhD studentships. GambleAware…
UKGC Extends Timeline on Fourth National Lottery Bid
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Crucial Compliance Acquires BetProtect
BetProtect, a gambling protection app developed by the son of a former gambling addict was acquired on 1 August by industry-leading compliance…
French Sports Betting: The Battle for Integrity with Gilles Maillet from FDJ
The French gaming authorities have reinforced their efforts in tackling the post-pandemic issues related to sports integrity. Namely with the publication of…
Gambling.com Group Appoints Dan D’Arrigo to Board of Directors
Gambling.com Group Limited, a provider of performance marketing services for the regulated global online gambling industry, has announced that it has welcomed…
Racing Post and SIS Host One-Off Betting Shop Champion Awards
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Bacta Establishes Technical Standards Working Group
Bacta has established a new industry Technical Standards Working Group to ensure that all the relevant gaming machine industry standards are reviewed…
Paf Acquires Two Swedish Licenced Companies
Paf is acquiring the two Swedish licensed gaming companies Speedy Ltd and Speedy Originals from Hero Gaming. The companies run the gaming…
Allwyn Commits to Net-Zero Carbon by 2030
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VBET Becomes Title Partner of the Ukrainian Football Cup
VBET, a global betting and gambling operator, has become the Title Partner of the Ukrainian Football Cup. During the three-season cooperation, the…
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Entain Extends Safe Play Partnerships into Interactive Entertainment
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Playing the Long Game, Playtech Beats Back Covid
Despite the deep impact of Covid-19 pandemic closures on its Snaitech Italian operations, Playtech, the world’s largest supplier of iGaming and sports…
Esports: Attracting Tomorrow’s Player! With Slava Zhuk, Advisor to Turbo Games
As esports popularity among punters continues to skyrocket, many of us are now wondering whether it’s possible for this sector to reach…
Interactivity and the Future of Gambling: How Multiplayer Games are Reshaping the Gaming Space
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Playtech Awarded Inaugural B2B Safer Gambling Accreditation
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Off the Charts, Kindred Smashing It, Posts Record H1
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Kambi Scores a First Half Double
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Leaving Las Vegas, Sands Shifting East
The company behind the Sands Casino brand–an icon that’s almost synonymous with the Desert Queen itself–is cashing out its chips and moving…
ANJ Launches Five-Part Player Protection Strategy
The French gambling regulator L’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) has launched a five-part strategy for 2021-2023, as part of its first activity…
EGBA Report: Operators Step Up Safer Gambling Efforts
In a first-ever annual Sustainability Report by the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA), the CEOs of its member companies, Europe’s leading…
Evolution’s Revolution
Fuelled by its acquisition of fellow Swedish betting supplier NetEnt last year, Evolution gaming has put in a spectacular financial half that…
Kindred’s Revenue from Harmful Gambling Amounted to 4.3 per cent
Kindred continue to focus on contributing to a more sustainable gambling market through an open and fact-based discussion across industry stakeholders. In…
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As the affiliate market continues to flourish and cement itself as an integral part of the iGaming ecosystem, the time has now…