Land-based businesses bounced back from the pandemic and online operators continued their upwards trajectory, with M&A powering companies up the GIQ30.
GAN has been one of the early beneficiaries of the opening up of the US sports betting and iGaming market, but it was its acquisition of operator Coolbet that took [...]
New York-listed gaming supplier International Game Technology (IGT) has signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with Aristocrat Leisure.
The agreement relates to game features and remote game server (RGS) technologies for the digital and social gaming sectors, extending and expanding a previous patent cross-license between IGT and Aristocrat.
“This combination of two of [...]
New York-listed sports data technology provider Sportradar has acquired Artificial Intelligence solutions provider Vaix for an undisclosed amount.
The purchase will enhance Sportradar’s Managed Trading Services (MTS) platform to help betting operators increase player engagement and retention by providing a more targeted experience.
Sportradar has partnered Vaix for the past two years, [...]
Athens-listed lottery and gaming solutions provider Intralot has reported a 20 per cent increase in group revenue to €414.0m for the full 2021 year.
The year-on-year revenue growth was driven by a 33 per cent increase in Intralot’s Licensed Operations (B2C) to €133.1m, attributable to growth in Malta and Argentina, while [...]
London-listed betting and gaming operator Entain has reported a 31 per cent increase in group net gaming revenue (NGR) for the first quarter of 2022, despite posting an 8 per cent fall in Online NGR.
Entain said that results were in line with expectations, with the strong start to the year [...]
New York-listed sports data and technology provider Sportradar is strengthening its integrity services with the launch of a new Integrity Exchange for bookmakers.
The Integrity Exchange allows bookmakers to play an active role in the fight against match-fixing by providing a two-way channel to raise integrity-related concerns with a team of [...]
Austrian gaming giant Novomatic has reported a 6 per cent increase in group revenue to €1.84bn in 2021, despite year-on-year declines in its core markets of Germany and Austria.
The company attributed its revenue growth to relaxed Covid-19 restrictions in the latter part of the year, and the performance of its [...]
Sydney-listed sports betting operator PointsBet has signed a deal to become an official sportsbook partner of Canadian football team, the Ottawa Redblacks.
The multi-year partnership will see PointsBet Canada's logo featured on all Redblacks jerseys this season, while the operator will also benefit from branding across the club's TD Place stadium. [...]
Entain-backed sports data provider Racing and Sports (RAS) Technology Holdings has expanded its partnership with Tabcorp’s Sky Racing World to include the United States.
The partnership combines RAS’ digital automation and form data with Sky Racing’s portfolio of international racing rights, which are distributed to all major US wagering operators.
This includes [...]
New York-listed sports data and technology provider Genius Sports has reported a 75.5 per cent increase in group revenue to $262.7m for 2021, although significantly higher costs pushed the company to a loss of $592.8m for the year.
The strong revenue growth was driven by a record performance in the final [...]
Sydney-listed betting technology provider BetMakers has appointment Anna Massion to the board as an independent non-executive director.
Massion is a highly experienced board member who currently holds directorships at a number of international gaming technology and investment companies, including non-executive director roles at Playtech, AGS and Artemis Strategic Investment Corp.
She previously [...]
Sportradar Integrity Services has revealed the detection of a record number of suspicious matches in its annual ‘Betting Corruption and Match-fixing’ report.
Sportradar’s bet-monitoring service, the Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS), identified 903 matches in 2021 which showed signs of suspicious activity, across 10 sports and in 76 countries.
This represents the [...]