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Port Vale FC defender Mitch Clark has been given a suspended three-month ban and £600 fine for a betting violation. The League One player was hit with the enforcement action after an Independent Regulatory Commission ruled he’d breached the Football Association’s (FA) betting rules. Clark admitted placing 312 bets on football matches while playing for
Sports data analytics and technology business Sportradar has announced that the continental governing body of South American football CONMEBOL has chosen the business as its new betting data rights partner. The outcome of the competitive bidding process will see Sportradar become CONMEBOL’s exclusive audio visual and betting data rights partner. The multi-year deal covers the
William Hill’s revenue declined just 0.5% to £1.24bn in 2022, following the completion of the sale of its non-US assets to 888 Holdings in July the same year. The tumultuous year saw the large decline in William Hill’s online segment largely offset by a resurgence in retail. The company’s retail revenue rose 52.7% year-on-year to
Better Collective has acquired American sports media company Playmaker HQ for $54m (£42.6m/€49.5m). The sale will consist of $15.0m in cash upfront, $1.0m in deferred payments and up to $38.0m in performance-based earnout payments over a three-year period. To reach the full earn-out payments, Playmaker HQ will have to generate more than $75.0m in accumulating
A consortium of Belgium sports teams and gaming operators have been defeated in a legal bid challenging the Royal Decree that will ban gambling advertising on 1 July. On 29 June, the Court of First Instance of Tournai rejected the arguments of the operators and sports teams on the grounds that the decree was lawful
The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA), All-In Diversity Project (AIDP), Entain, Flutter, and Stats Perform are set to unveil the results of a new study on women’s sports at iGB Live this year. The 2023 edition of iGB Live will take place from 12-14 July in the RAI, Amsterdam. The study is titled Breaking Barriers:
In a landmark ruling, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals have reversed a lower court’s decision, clearing the way for the Seminole Tribe to offer sports betting statewide in Florida. Today, the D.C. Circuit Court released its ruling on the Florida sports betting case, saying the Seminoles should be permitted to operate mobile sports betting
Jorg Sibbel, the chair of German gambling regulator Gemeinsamen Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL) will exit the organisation on 1 July, to be replaced by Udo Götze, state secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Municipal Affairs. Six months on from the GGL taking over all tasks as gambling regulator, the body will be
Following last week’s announcement that Playtech had priced €300m 5.8% senior secured notes due 2028, the gaming technology provider officially closed the deal today (28 June). On 21 June, Playtech announced that it had priced the bond offering. It detailed that the net proceeds from the issuance of the new notes would go towards redeeming
The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) has revealed OlyBet, the sports betting brand of Olympic Entertainment Group (OEG), as its latest member. OlyBet will feed into IBIA’s betting integrity monitoring and alert network, working alongside licensed operators from around the world. Active across the Baltic region, OlyBet joins almost 50 businesses and more than 120
