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Members of German sports betting trade body Deutscher Sportwettenverband (DSWV) have re-elected Tipwin CEO Dr. Damir Böhm to the body’s executive council, the Presidium. The DSWV membership unanimously elected Böhm to a second five-year term. The chief executive has been a member of the Presidium since 2018. Following a stint at the Kartal Lawyers firm
Gaming technology provider Playtech is to expand its poker presence though a new deal with Swedish state-owned gambling business Svenska Spel Sport & Casino. Svenska Spel has launched Playtech’s poker offering and ipoker network. This is part of the operator’s strategy to “modernise and improve” its poker product. The updated offering brings a number of
The GB Gambling Commission has released its evidence gaps and priorities paper for the three years between 2023 and 2026, which focuses on areas of regulation that need evidence-based development. The outlines the Commission’s plans to undertake evidence-based on several key areas, including gateway gambling products, the variation of gambling experiences and the impact of
Swedish gaming operator Kindred Group has confirmed that chief marketing officer Elen Barber and chief commercial officer Anne-Jaap Snijders have both resigned from the company. Alongside former CCO and current interim CEO Nils Andén, Barber and Snijders led a review of Kindred’s commercial and marketing operations in the second half of 2022. Kindred said that
Sports Information Services (SIS) has agreed to a partnership with Media System Technologies (MST), which will see it broadcast the 140th Italian Gallop Derby to operators in the UK and Ireland. This will be the first time that operators in both regions will be able to accept fixed-odds wagers on the event. Bettors will be
Henrik Tjärnström has resigned as chief executive of Kindred Group, with chief commercial officer Nils Andén to serve as his interim replacement. Henrik Tjärnström first joined Kindred Group, then Unibet, as a non-executive director in 2003. He became its chief financial officer and deputy CEO in 2008, before taking the top job two years later.
Bally’s Corporation and Gaming & Leisure Properties (GLPI) have reached a binding agreement with the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball, to site their new ballpark on a portion of the operator’s Tropicana Las Vegas property. Bally’s Corporation highlighted the potential “transformational” impact of the $1.5bn baseball ballpark project on the company’s database as an
William Hill has announced that it will donate all profit it makes from Eurovision bets to relief efforts supporting displaced Ukrainians in the UK. The profit will be donated to the Support Ukraine initiative, which provides humanitarian aid to displaced Ukrainians living in the UK as well as their families abroad. The final donation total
Social casino developer DoubleDown Interactive has announced the first sequential revenue increase in eight quarters in its Q1 financial report. DoubleDown framed the “solid” Q1 results as consequence of the company’s strong business model, highlighting that it often achieved adjusted EBITDA margins of more than 30% in addition to “significant” cash flow. Chief executive Keuk
Bragg Gaming Group has reported record revenue of €22.9m (£180.4m/$227.7m) for the first quarter of the year, an upward climb of 18.1% year-on-year. Yaniv Sherman, CEO of Bragg, said that the revenue was the result of expansion within certain markets, including North America and Europe. “We extended our momentum in the first quarter with the
