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Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited, known to be one of Canada’s largest operators of land-based casinos, has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition company Leisure Acquisition Group in a deal valued at $1.115 billion (approx. $0.993 billion). Gateway, which owns 25 properties in British Columbia and Ontario, including the …

Online casino brand 888casino has added titles from Skywind Group to boost its offering with more than 280 slots titles, jackpots, and arcade games by the Isle of Man-based supplier. 888casino and its customers now have access to Skywind’s hit titles Boomerang Edge, Rambo, Star Trek: The Next Generation, CSI: …

Shares of Kambi Group PLC lost 30 percent on Monday’s news that DraftKings planned to acquire SBTech. Investors fear the acquisition could threaten the current multi-state partnership between Kambi and DraftKings. As a result, Kambi has made the move to halt trading in its shares. The company also issued a …

BETDAQ, the global betting exchange owned by GVC Holdings, has introduced 0% commission on the majority of sports on its platform. The change was preluded by several trial periods, including offering 0 per cent commission on the final three tennis Grand Slams of the year. During the Wimbledon tournament, the …

Hong Kong-listed lottery provider AGTech Holdings has secured two new contracts to provide sports lottery terminals in the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Henan. The contracts to supply lottery terminals to the Sports Lottery Administration Centers of both provinces were won by the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Beijing AGTech GOT Technology …

Scientific Games (SG) announced the California State Lottery has signed a three-year contract extension for Scientific Games to continue as the Lottery’s primary provider of instant games and associated services through November 2022, with optional extensions remaining through 2025. Under the terms of the extension, the company is to continue …

Finland’s gambling monopoly Veikkaus has gone live with the entire online casino games library of major creator and supplier of content for the iGaming industry Yggdrasil. The operator, which is owned by the Finnish government, is the only regulated gambling operator in the country and has more than two million …

Online gaming platform provider and gaming group Finnplay has been awarded an Online Casino Licence in Denmark by Spillemyndigheden, the Danish Gambling Authority. Finnplay’s licence from the Danish regulator continues a recent successful streak of new licences and licence extensions for the company, which specializes in the provision of solutions …

Gambling is one of the biggest and most lucrative industries in the world. Just online gambling, which is just half of what this industry can offer, is currently worth almost $50 billion worldwide.  This goes to show just how big this entertainment sector really is. However, even though the majority …

Pan-European lottery and sports betting operator SAZKA Group has reached an agreement to acquire Novomatic’s stake in Casinos Austria AG (CASAG). Confirming the agreement to sell its 17.19 per cent stake, Novomatic states on its website that a binding agreement has been reached with the Czech gambling firm which is …

Online gambling and betting operator Betsson has acquired a 75 per cent stake in Suaposta Racing, securing an early foothold in Brazil ahead of an anticipated regulated market opening. Betsson has become the single largest stakeholder in the race betting operator. However, Suaposta’s founders Andre Gelfi and Fernando Correa will …

iGaming software supplier and white label solutions provider EveryMatrix has been granted approval to launch its CasinoEngine integration and productivity platform in Spain. As a result, CasinoEngine is now fully certified and complies with the technical, security, and vulnerability standards imposed by the country’s gambling regulator Dirección General de Ordenación …

STS Gaming Group has become the first Polish bookmaking business to secure a licence in the regulated UK gambling market. The company is also the first Polish bookmaker to start foreign operations, and further international expansion is part of a long-term foreign strategy. STS already holds licences in Germany, Iceland, …

Sports data and content provider Sportradar has agreed a strategic partnership with Detroit-based marketing specialist PrizeLogic to create a new sports engagement solution. The alliance marries Sportradar’s worldwide real-time sports data with PrizeLogic’s interactive consumer engagement capabilities to create real-time gamification experiences. Under the agreement, Sportradar will use its real-time …

Mr Green has recruited the services of Malta headquartered Gaming Innovation Group (GiG), strengthening an existing partnership between the two parties as the William Hill-owned brand prepares to enter the Latvian market. The agreement contains the provision of GiG’s software platform licence, online casino, sportsbook and front end services as …

EveryMatrix announces the closing of its white label brands www.casinohouse.dk, www.777.dk, www.victoriamilan.dk and www.jetbull.dk in the Danish market. This comes as part of a new and revamped corporate strategy that strives to improve the company’s position in the B2B industry. “Although EveryMatrix had a strong bond to its white label …

Polish biggest operator STS has inked a new partnership with iGaming conversion platform Enteractive’s (Re)Activation Cloud, which will see the latter aim to improve STS’s player retention rates. The platform will plug directly into clients’ existing CRM systems through API integration which provides real-time, end-to-end transparency. Enteractive’s clients’ have full …

Scientific Games Corporation (SG) has secured new contracts with the Lotteries in Massachusetts and Ohio for expanded instant game management services. Deal in Ohio will run for three years, while the one in Massachusetts is going to be a year longer, and can also be extended for two more years. …

Betradar, the world’s leading supplier and provider of sports betting data service and Stake.com, one of the biggest crypto casinos, announced their partnership with launching Stake sportsbook. The official partnership between both organisations is set to run for an initial two year period and is predicted to fast become one …

Online slot developer Stakelogic has received a supplier licence from the United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC), allowing its titles to be used by British-licenced operators. This means players in the region will be able to access titles such as ‘Encharmed’, ‘Book of Adventure’ and Christmas-themed ‘Mystical Santa Megaways’. This latest …