Switzerland’s first four online casinos could be launched in July, a year after Swiss voters backed the nation’s new gambling law. This week, Swiss media reported that the Federal Gaming Board (ESBK) had received casino license applications from four of the country’s land-based casino operators: Grand Casino Baden AG, Grand …
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed the inclusion of e-sports in the program of the Olympic Games. Members of the committee see this as a necessity to attract young viewers and remain relevant for new generations. The program for 2024 will be formed in 2019, therefore only then it will …
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Specializing in the collection and analysis of sports data Sportradar announced the acquisition of a technology startup MOCAP Analytics. This transaction will provide new opportunities to develop products to track players’ data and thus attract key sports organizations – the NBA, the NFL, and others. Carsten Coerl, founder and CEO …
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Until recently, online gambling in Switzerland was illegal, while the relevant law prohibiting the provision of similar services wasn’t in the country. Unternational industry operators could freely provide services to local players. Now the Swiss parliament has finally voted for changes in the gambling legislation of the country, regulating the …
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This news was announced by the vice-president of the Ukrainian Hockey Federation (FHU) Georgy Zubko. Two hockey players of the national team of Ukraine Eduard Zakharchenko and Vladimir Varivoda can be disqualified for life for intention to surrender the World Cup 2017 to South Korea. FHU disqualified both players in …
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Specialist in the field of sports events Sportradar announced the conclusion of a multi-year agreement with the organizer of cyber sport tournaments in Europe Fortuna Esports. Under the terms of the contract, Sportradar will receive exclusive rights to streaming games that Fortuna Esports conducts. This partnership with the largest provider …
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Sportradar, specializing in the collection and analysis of sports events, has become the exclusive distributor of the automated platform PvPro Gaming, designed for games, tournaments and special events among world enthusiasts in the field of e-sports. Sportradar will organise audiovisual streaming of all competitions on the platform. In addition, the …
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The Swiss developer of digital betting solutions Betradar cooperated with the e-sports startup DOJO Madness and launched live betting on the eSports discipline League of Legends. DOJO technical service has developed complex betting models based on the analytical data of more than 450,000 tournaments in 18 million individual competitions. This …
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The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the governing body for soccer in Brazil, has announced a new partnership with Sportradar. The integrity partnership will see the CBF deploy Sportradar’s Fraud Detection System to monitor all matches in the country’s national leagues for evidence of betting-related corruption. Sportradar already monitors the Campeonato …
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Switzerland has announced that land-based gaming venues in the country recorded a profit in 2016 for the first time in almost a decade. Overall gross profit from 21 brick-and-mortar casinos in the country amounted to CHF689m (€634.7m/$710.1m) in 2016, up 1.2% on the previous year. The conclusion represents the first …
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The EHF Marketing division of the European Handball Federation has entered into a wide-ranging partnership with sports and betting-related services company Sportradar. The new partnership is to be officially announced at the European Handball Goes Tech business event ahead of the Velux EHF Final4 competition in Cologne, Germany. Serving as …
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This was to be expected. The Swiss government has voted in favor of a measure that requires internet service providers in the country to begin blocking access to all illegal gambling websites. “Blocking websites works – experience abroad demonstrates that,” Thierry Burkart from the centre-right Radical Party said, according to …
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