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PointsBet names Mary-Beth Hosking as chief information officer

Sydney-listed betting and gaming operator PointsBet has appointed Mary-Beth Hosking as its new chief information officer (CIO).

Hosking previously held key executive positions at Specsavers and the Toll Group, and will now oversee PointsBet's overall IT strategy, reporting into PointBet’s president of product & technology, Manjit Singh.

“As an IT leader, [...]

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Intralot

Intralot returns to profit as turnover surpasses €302m

Athens-listed lottery and gaming solutions provider Intralot has reported a 24 per cent increase in group turnover to €302.8m for the nine-month period ended 30 September, driven by continued strong growth in its US operations.

Turnover from the company’s Licensed Operations (B2C) segment rose 38 per cent compared to the same [...]

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GAN

GAN Launches Ainsworth games online in Michigan

New York-listed GAN has rolled out Ainsworth Game Technology's slots for online play in Michigan with Churchill Downs' TwinSpires.com.

The Ainsworth titles have been rolled out via GAN's SuperRGS content aggregation platform following a deal between the two companies earlier this year, under which GAN serves as the exclusive online distributor [...]

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PointsBet

PointsBet strengthens US in-play offering with Sportradar

Sports data supplier Sportradar has entered a multi-year sports betting partnership with betting and gaming operator PointsBet. 

The agreement establishes Sportradar as PointsBet’s US supplier of choice for MLB, NBA, NHL, college football and college basketball data, and will see the supplier provide pre-match and live betting services to PoinstBet.

These include [...]

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Australian parliamentary committee proposes ban on gambling with credit and digital wallets

Online gambling through the use of credit cards and digital wallets may soon be outlawed in Australia.

The ban on the use of credit cards and digital wallets for online sports betting has been proposed by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services and is intended to offer greater [...]

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Entain

Northern Territory Racing Commission fines Entain for breach of bonus rules

London-listed betting and gaming operator Entain has been fined by the Northern Territory Racing Commission (NTRC) for offering illegal bonuses to Australian consumers.

The fine follows an NTRC investigation into the activities of business development managers working on behalf of Entain-owned online sports betting brand Neds, who were overheard by a [...]

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PointsBet

PointsBet wins Virginia license in partnership with Colonial Downs

Sydney-listed operator PointsBet has teamed up with local racetrack and gaming operator Colonial Downs Group to secure a sports betting license from the Virginia Lottery.

PointsBet will be the tenth licensed operator to enter Virginia’s market, along with FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM, BetRivers, Caesars, WynnBet, Unibet, Barstool Sports and Golden Nugget Online [...]

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Aristocrat full year revenue grows to AUD$4.7bn

Sydney-listed gamíng supplier Aristocrat Leisure has reported a 14 per cent increase in revenue to AUD$4.74bn for its financial year ended 30 September.

Revenue increased by 25 per cent on a constant currency basis, driven by growth across North American gaming operations, North American and Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) outright [...]

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Tabcorp

ACMA issues formal warning to Tabcorp over online in-play betting

Sydney-listed gaming operator Tabcorp Holdings has been issued a formal warning by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) after it was found to have accepted a number of illegal online in-play bets on a US college basketball game.

After receiving a complaint, the ACMA’s investigation found that Tabcorp accepted 37 [...]

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Playtech

Eddie Jordan teams up with former SciGames exec for Playtech bidding war

Former Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan has teamed up with former Scientific Games sports betting chief Keith O’Loughlin to bring the number of companies bidding for Playtech to three.

Playtech confirmed that the pair’s JKO Play vehicle has approached Playtech for due diligence information that might lead to an offer [...]

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Australian regulator asks ISPs to block illegal lottery betting sites

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has asked internet service providers to block offshore lottery betting sites We Love Lotto and Red Fox Lotto.

The sites, operated by UK-based Ardua Ventures and Curacao-registered companies White Lotto, were found to offer betting on overseas lotteries, which are not licensed in Australia.

Authority [...]

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Microgaming

Microgaming agrees sale of Quickfire business to Games Global

Microgaming has agreed to sell its Quickfire distribution business and portfolio of online games to Games Global, a newly established private capital-backed company led by former IGT executive Walter Bugno.

Games Global will acquire the international distribution rights to Microgaming’s exclusive gaming content, including progressive jackpot titles, as well as its [...]

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