Portugal’s online gambling revenue in Q3 2022 rose by 39 per cent to an all-time high of €159.1m, with strong growth in both the sports betting and iGaming sectors.
Sports betting handle increased by 17 per cent to €348.2m, and a margin of 19.9 per cent (2021: 16.6 per cent) gave [...]
New York-listed Esports Entertainment Group (EEG) has confirmed the departure of long-serving chairman and CEO Grant Johnson, with Jan Jones Blackhurst named as the company’s new chair.
Johnson steps down after nearly nine years in charge, with EEG identifying several candidates to be its next CEO, who are currently going through [...]
Leap Gaming CEO Yariv Lissauer will become senior director and general manager of iGaming for IMG Arena following its acquisition of the virtual sports and casino games provider.
IMG Arena announced a deal Thursday to take over full ownership of Leap, combining its ‘Event Centre’ product suite with Leap’s cutting-edge, [...]
New York-listed casino operator Bally's Corporation has appointed Kim Barker Lee as executive vice president and chief legal officer.
Lee most recently served as International Game Technology's (IGT) inaugural global vice president of diversity and inclusion, after serving as general counsel and vice president of legal and regulatory affairs for Northstar [...]
Lawmakers in Romania have introduced a bill to outlaw all gambling advertising in the country, in line with the prohibition on promoting other addictive products such as alcohol and tobacco.
The prohibition would apply to all forms of gambling across any public media, including radio, television and billboards.
The authors of the [...]
Licenced online gambling operators in the Netherlands are expected to generate gross gaming revenue of approximately €1.0bn this year following the reregulation of the market in October 2021.
The full year gross gaming revenue projection was presented to parliament this week by Netherlands minister for legal protection Franc Weerwind as he [...]
Endeavor Group’s sports subsidiary IMG Arena has entered into a conditional agreement to take over full ownership of virtual sports and casino games provider Leap Gaming.
IMG Arena is currently the second largest shareholder in Leap, and will acquire the remaining stake in the business from London-listed SEED Innovations for €12.9m, [...]
Vancouver-based betting operator FansUnite Entertainment has confirmed the departure of founder and president Darius Eghdami.
Eghdami has been with the company for more than ten years, including CEO for eight years, but resigned this week to attend to personal matters unrelated to his tenure at FansUnite.
Since founding FansUnite, Eghdami has played [...]
Stockholm-listed iGaming affiliate Acroud is on the lookout for a new finance chief following the resignation of Roderick Attard.
Attard had been in the role for the past two and a half years, but is stepping down to pursue another career opportunity.
“On behalf of everyone at Acroud, I thank Roderick for [...]
JAY-Z’s Roc Nation has joined Caesars Entertainment and SL Green’s bid for a new casino gaming facility in New York’s Times Square.
Roc Nation will be the official entertainment partner of the proposed state-of-the-art gaming facility at 1515 Broadway in Times Square.
Caesars Palace Times Square expects to generate 7m new visits [...]
Multi-channel bingo provider END 2 END, part of NeoGames and Aspire Global, has been awarded a licence by the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA).
The licence approval will enable the supplier to provide its bingo platform, including 90 and 75 ball Bingo variant games, to MGA-licensed operators.
“The Malta Gaming Authority is one [...]
New York-listed real estate investment trust VICI Properties is providing capital for Century Casinos’ expansion plans in Missouri.
VICI will utilize its Partner Property Growth Fund to provide capital for Century Casinos’ new casino development project in Caruthersville.
The new land-based casino at Century Casino Caruthersville will replace the last remaining riverboat [...]