Evoke Sale Indicates Surging European Regulation Likely To Drive M&As
Bally’s Intralot’s planned £243.1 million acquisition of William Hill owner Evoke Plc is seen by industry insiders as a response to looming…
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Bullet-proof Polymarket Marches On
Currently dominating World Cup prediction trades, controversial Polymarket has now launched markets allowing customers to bet on private companies’ performance – despite…
FanDuel CEO Amy Howe Loses Fantasy Shoot-out With Prediction Markets
BREAKING NEWS: Currently being out-gunned and out-played by hot-shot prediction markets disruptors, FanDuel has today announced the shock departure of its CEO…
Lost In The Junglee Flutter Entertainment Takes A Mega Hit In FY25
Like many a valiant merchant prince before him, out to make a fortune from the fabulous East, Flutter Entertainment’s CEO Peter Jackson…
iGaming 2026: Predicting Another Year Of Living Dangerously
Predict. Now that’s a good start, because with U.S. giants FanDuel, DraftKings and BetMGM all set to embrace the prediction markets phenomenon…
Britain’s Biggest Bookies Respond To Budget Mayhem
Britain’s biggest bookies have reacted with barely controlled fury to yesterday’s Autumn Budget, which featured massive tax hikes, principally targeting their iGaming…
Done And Dusted, Higher Taxes Will Destroy Bookies Warns Betfred Owner
For Betfred founder Fred Done it all began with a £25 punt on England winning the 1966 World Cup. But 60-years later…
Flutter’s Paddy Power Beat Rivals To The Punch, KOs 57 Bookies
As so often, Flutter Entertainment has beaten its rivals to the punch and announced the shuttering of 57 of its iconic Paddy…
Sale Of Snaitech Has Made Playtech Mor Weizer In Surging H1
Boosted by the recent sale of its Italian Snaitech operation to Flutter Entertainment for €2.3 billion (£1.98m), Playtech has reported a strong…
Is Boyd Gaming Making Moves With The Short Goodbye?
Selling one’s five-percent stake in the world’s top performing sportsbook, Fan Duel, for admittedly an impressive circa US$1.4 billion (£1.04bn) doesn’t look…
Let Us Entain You: BetMGM (And Stella David) Bring British Giant Back From The Dead
It seems that the appointment of entain veteran Stella David as the new permanent CEO in April has proved a master stroke…
A Bad Day At The Office For Betsson
We’re only a few days into June, but for Swedish gaming giants Betsson it’s already shaping up to be a month to…
Tumbling Dice As Trump’s Tariffs Hammer World Gambling Stocks
The value of the world’s top betting brands is in freefall this week as the international economic order reels from the arbitrary…
FanDuel Doubles Down On Safer Gambling Leadership
Doubling down on its long-term commitment to safer gambling, top U.S. platform FanDuel has launched “The Comeback With Craig Carton,” a new…
Paddy Power Monstered, Pays Disputed £1m Slots Win But House Wins
In an ironic twist to the old adage that “The House Always Wins”, gambling giant Paddy Power has been ordered to pay…
OPEN BOOK: Gambling Addiction, What Debt Do We Owe?
In the summer of 2021, Luke Ashton, a husband and father-of-two from Leicester, England, took his own life, writes Grace Graham-Taylor. Unbeknown…
Flutter Entertainment named as headline sponsor of ICE Sustainable Gambling Zone
Clarion Gaming has announced that Flutter Entertainment, the parent company of the world’s leading online sports betting and iGaming operator, will be…
FanDuel and DraftKings Accused of Collusion, Competition Busting
FanDuel and DraftKings, the giants of online U.S. sports betting, have been accused of collusion and competition busting by two powerful U.S….
Gambling Taxes Set To Soar Around The World
Leading nations around the world are poised to significantly increase taxes on their gambling and iGaming industries as part of their fix…
Biting The Hand That’s Fed It, Labour Plans £3bn Raid On Gambling Industry
You can almost imagine a Blair-Starmer double act, co-opting a favourite catchphrase and delivering in unison: “And not a lot of people…
Burn It Down: Brazil Sports Betting Scores Spectacular Own Goal
EXCLUSIVE: Brazil, blessed with its vast Amazonian rainforest, spectacular northern desert of Lençóis Maranhenses and sprawling southern Pantanal wetlands, is known for…
Flutter Raises Over €285,000 for Spinal Injuries Ireland at Dublin Charity Ball
Flutter Entertainment hosted its second Charity Ball in Dublin, raising more than €285,000 for Spinal Injuries Ireland, the only dedicated support service…
Flutter’s UK Brands Launch Leading Titles from Games Global
Games Global has expanded its partnership with Flutter by launching a range of its top-performing content across the operator’s UK brands, including…
FanDuel Partners with Randy Livingston for Responsible Gambling Initiative
Top U.S. fantasy and sportsbook FanDuel has launched a new initiative called “Trusted Voices: Conversations About Betting” during Responsible Gambling Education Month….
Flutter Entertainment CEO Discusses Competitive Edge and Manchester United Comparison
Flutter Entertainment CEO Peter Jackson explores how the “Flutter Edge” underpins the Group’s global dominance, drawing parallels with the competitive strengths that…
Flutter Entertainment Announces Two New Board Appointments
Flutter Entertainment, a prominent global online sports betting and iGaming operator, has announced the addition of Christine M. McCarthy and Robert R….
PokerStars Appoints Kerryjane Craigie as Ambassador for Women in Poker
PokerStars has announced Kerryjane Craigie as its new Ambassador for Women in Poker. Craigie, a well-respected figure in the poker community, brings…
Sky Bet’s Commitment to Communities: Over £600K Allocated to EFL Schemes
Sky Bet, in partnership with the English Football League (EFL), has significantly contributed to community initiatives across England and Wales by allocating…
A Very British Scoop: Profiling The Exclusive Club Of UKGC’s New Industry Forum
As the regulatory United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) gears up for its first-ever Industry Forum this new coming week to drive looming…
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…
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…
Playing To Win, US Sportsbooks Launch Biggest NFL Bonus Give-aways In History
America’s top sportsbooks, FanDuel and DraftKings, are launching the biggest bonus give-aways in iGaming and NFL history to mark the start of…
Tally Ho! It’s A Busted Brush For Fox Bet As They Lose The iGaming Scent
August normally marks the start of the fox hunting season, but by the end of this month Flutter Entertainment and the Fox…
Flutter Launches Innovative Programme To Promote Safer Society, Safer iGaming
Responsible gambling leader Flutter Entertainment has launched a partnership program through its so-called Alpha Hub to help shape and promote a safer,…
FanDuel Partners with Canadian Football League as First Official Sportsbook Operator
FanDuel, the leading US business under Flutter Entertainment, has announced its role as the Canadian Football League’s (CFL) first authorized gaming operator…
PA Betting Services Extends Partnership with Flutter
PA Betting Services (PABS), a leading provider of horse racing data and content for the igaming industry, is pleased to announce the…
With Gambling Reform on the Warpath, It May Be Time to Circle The Wagons
Gambling reform–perhaps more than most issues on this government’s agenda–has been buffeted and delayed by the chaos of Covid and internecine Tory…
California, IGaming’s Biggest Prize, Remains Just Out Of Reach
It could have been a classic and uplifting scene straight out of a revisionist left field western: a virtuous circle of “Cowboys…
A Poke in The Eye for PokerStars is a Worrying Landmark Ruling for Newly Regulated German iGaming
In the grander scheme of things a fine of €58,000 (£50,732/US$59,780) for a company that is owned by a £20.77 billion (US$24.47bn/€23.74bn)…
Online Flavours The Pot, But In The Stats Cook-off Between Citadels Vegas and Macau Someone Ate All The Noodles
Post-Pandemic and post-Liberalisation iGaming flavours the pot, but in the stats war between the twin citadels of straight gambling, Las Vegas and…
Gunfight At The iGaming Corral: FanDuel Biggest Draw Of America’s Best
In the All-American shoot-out to come out top dog in the relatively new and increasingly contested online sports betting market, FanDuel seems…
In “Race to the Top”, Flutter Lightens Load By Dumping Captain and Crew Overboard
A cynic may argue that in its “race to the top”, Flutter Entertainment, the world’s largest gambling group, has decided to lighten…
Gone Fishin’, Flutter Casts New CEO in Bid to Satiate Market Sharks
Flutter, the world’s largest listed gambling group, has dumped its UK and Ireland CEO Conor Grant and brought aboard a new captain…