Author: Olivia Cole

Last month, Cashino Gaming Ltd, which currently operates under the Merkur Slots brand, revealed plans to start offering its gambling services in the former Coral betting shop premises situated on Victoria Road West, which has not been used since 2019. At the time, the British gambling operator submitted an application to the Blackpool City Council asking it for permission to take over another empty Coral betting shop premises situated in the centre of the town, on Abingdon Street. In a letter of application that was submitted to Wyre Council, the…

The beginning of the week saw the global gambling and sports betting company GVC Group make an announcement that the migration of its Ladbrokes brand on to the market-leading proprietary technology platform was successfully finalised. The Group acquired Ladbrokes Coral two years ago, and now, the completion of the migration for all the acquired brands, including Ladbrokes, Coral, Gala Casino, Gala Bingo and Gala Spins, is set to make them all available on the GVC platform. The migration of Ladbrokes is the biggest one that GVC Holdings has brought to…

The US casino partner of Flutter Entertainment, the owner of Paddy Power Betfair, has revealed hopes to finalise a deal to borrow a total of $600 million by the end of the week that are set to be used as the company is preparing to resume some of its operations. FanDuel, a US subsidiary of recently enlarged Flutter, offers sports betting services in collaboration with Boyd Gaming at the latter’s casino venues in a number of US states. Now, it became clear that Boyd Gaming, an operator listed in the…

Several racecourse bookmakers that were facing some monetary fines for accepting bets from underage test customer at the Royal Ascot in 2019 will not have to pay them, as the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) had decided to reduce their punishments. The regulator of the UK gambling sector shared it had made the decision amid the significant challenges that are being faced by on-course bookmakers due to the coronavirus crisis. Last summer, the UKGC carried out test purchasing at the Royal Ascot, with a 16-year-old individual was able to place a…

Casino operator SkyCity Entertainment has revealed that it set to resume its operations in selected centres across New Zealand as of May 14th. The company shared plans to restart operations in Auckland, Queenstown and Hamilton as of Thursday, with the country authorities have shifted the coronavirus pandemic measures to Alert Level 2. In late March, the Government of New Zealand moved the measures to alert level 4. The gambling operator also shared that it would restart the offering its services in stages, with the venues set to be run in…

The publicly listed and Malta-licensed online gambling firm Esports Entertainment Group, which operation is primarily focused on esports betting and 18+ gaming, revealed that it is to acquire the owner of online casino and sports betting operator Argyll Entertainment AG, LHE Enterprises Ltd. The Maltese gambling company did not reveal the price of the deal but shared that the operating support subsidiaries of Argyll Entertainment would also be included in the acquisition. The last few years have seen the company, which officially rolled out sportnation.bet as its flagship brand in…

UK gambling operators have been criticised for undermining their promise to cease their advertising during coronavirus lockdown. According to Members of Parliament who have called for the Government to intervene in the gambling advertising sector, gambling companies are undermining their promise to stop promoting their services to local customers during coronavirus shutdown by what they described as “thinly veiled” ads masked as social responsibility messages. The members of the trade body of the gambling industry of the UK – the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) – that currently constitute the…

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has called for the Welsh Government to protect jobs in the gambling industry by reconsidering the rate relief for such companies and possibly include businesses such as casinos, high-street betting outlets and bingo halls. According to the gambling industry’s trade body, such a step would help them to offset the negative impact that the coronavirus lockdown has had on them. Michael Dugher, the chief executive officer of the Betting and Gaming Council, has reached the Welsh finance minister Rebecca Evans in a letter and…

Gambling operators have faced a warning from the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) that they will face regulatory action in case they do not make sure they manage carefully third-party websites they are responsible for. The warning of the gambling watchdog comes after the UKGC took action against FSB Technology that will be forced to change the way it operates under some additional licence conditions. The company will also have to pay £600,000 for social responsibility, money laundering and advertising failures. The business model of FSB Technology includes contracting provisions of…

As of 8:00 AM on May 5th, the merger between Flutter Entertainment and The Stars Group was finalized. A few days ago, the owner of the Paddy Power Betfair business revealed the deadline for the acquisition and subsequent merger with The Stars Group, after which the multiple gambling brands owned by the two parties are expected to start integration. The announcement has come after the shareholders of The Stars Group overwhelmingly backed the company’s decision to sign the agreement worth £10 billion. The merger ended up creating an extremely powerful…