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In the concluding part of a two-episode slots special, CasinoBeats & SlotBeats Editor Craig Davies returns to the hosting chair, and is joined by the rest of the gaming team, CasinoBeats Senior Journalist Conor Porter and CasinoBeats & SlotBeats Business Journalist Danny Lee. Following on from their discussion on Episode #47 from the 27th of June, the guys continue to examine innovation wi...

Germany's Fourth Interstate market (GlüNeuRStv) has celebrated its second birthday since it was forced into existence in July 2021, ending a 12-year deliberation on how Germany would apply its online gambling laws federally across its 16 sovereign Bundeslander.     On the ground, 2023 was marked as a year of transition as the newly formed Gluecksspiel (GGL), the new federal authority for gambling...

To celebrate the 50th episode of iGaming Daily, sponsored by SBC Summit Barcelona, a special bonus episode sees regular hosts James Ross and Jessica Welman sit down to discuss many things regarding the podcast.  The duo sit down at the recent Canadian Gaming Summit and offered a back-and-forth question and answer session, revealing the development process of the podcast, from its initial concept t...

The off-season has been busy for sports leagues as they all are taking time to rethink how they approach their sports betting policies. This week the NCAA revised its position on the subject for the first major post-PASPA changes.  The NBA also updated its CBA with respect to betting, and the NFL? Well, the NFL apparently has even more players to suspend for violating the betting policy. What do t...

Thursday's episode of iGaming Daily, sponsored by SBC Summit Barcelona, will see us ride a wave of innovations and discover the latest payment trends in iGaming.  At the recent CasinoBeats Summit in Malta, Nikola Tchakarov, Head of Market Expansion at Noda, participated in a keynote session, exploring significant changes in Open Banking and iGaming, whilst providing real-life examples, industry in...

Sponsorship deals are increasingly common between football teams and sportsbooks in Latin America, and sports betting regulations in the city and the province of Buenos Aires have paved the way for new agreements between these companies and clubs. Home of football legends like Maradona, Riquelme and, loath or love him, Carlos Tevez, Boca Juniors this week signed a deal with the global operator Bet...

Guest host Craig Davies (editor of CasinoBeats and SlotBeats ) speaks to the gaming team - Conor Porter and Danny Lee - about the continuing criticism around innovation in the development of casino slots. Where is the innovation in the sector? Is innovation even the correct term to use? Do slot managers even want to be bothered by slots that don't fit neatly into their casino lobby? Or will the sl...

Previously under reported – ‘regulatory surveillance’ has crept up on the igaming industry’s lexicon and agenda during 2023.   A somewhat frightening and all-encompassing term is the regulatory surveillance of gambling licences being defined by governments and authorities across Western Europe’s markets ever-changing regulatory landscape.   Tough adjustments followed igaming’s transition from its...

Who doesn't like awards? There's nothing better than being recognised by your peers as being the best at what you do, all while having a swanky night out with good food, great company and generous helpings of alcohol. But how do you get to that point? Well SBC's Head of Events (Europe) Stuart Duff tells stand-in host (and SBC MD) Andrew McCarron exactly what the process is to get on that ticket an...

The industry has been fanatical about Fanatics since the second-wave sportsbook has started to roll out in the States. What was already an intriguing proposition is turning into some salacious gossip as DraftKings has entered a second bid to compete with Fanatics’s offer to purchase the US arm of PointsBet. The $195m offer is 30% higher than the one put forth by Fanatics but it is currently non-bi...

At the recent CasinoBeats Summit in Malta, Ed Dickerson the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Greco, took to the Leadership and Affiliation stage in a panel titled Bonus Abuse Just Went Viral In Latam.   This is what he had to say on today’s episode of iGaming Daily, sponsored by SBC Summit Barcelona. Later this year, SBC Summit Barcelona will return between 19-21 September at the Fira Bar...

Call it déjà vu, but Entain once again dominates industry headlines, as the firm orders a £600m bookbuild to acquire STS Group – Poland’s market leading bookmaker - for £750m.   Q2 trading alone has seen it commit almost £1bn in merger and acquisition deals, as STS Group joins 365Scores and Tidal Esports as new properties adding to the ever-expanding portfolio of Entain.   The STS deal saw Entain...

As part of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario's mission to further protect young people, online gambling advertising standards in the province could witness a revamp this year. However, the AGCO has proposed raising the threshold so the term becomes ‘reasonably expected’ to appeal to youth and children. This will include athletes – whether active or retired – as well as cartoon figures,...

In the latest episode of iGaming Daily, sponsored by SBC Summit Barcelona, Jessica Welman is joined by Steve McAllister to reminisce on his career whilst also looking into all things Ontario and Canadian casino and sportsbook. Later this year, SBC Summit Barcelona will return between 19-21 September at the Fira Barcelona Montjuïc. Click the following link for more information - https://sbcevents.c...

The Canadian Gaming Summit is in full swing and on today's episode of iGaming Daily guests will talk panels sessions and their plans for for the two day conference. Joining James Ross once again this week are Jessica Welman, Editor of SBC Americas and Canadian Gaming Business, Craig Davies, Editor of CasinoBeats and Nick Ware, Business Journalist at Canadian Gaming Business. To find out more on pa...

iGaming Daily ventures over to Canada's largest city, Toronto, with the Canadian Gaming Summit set to get underway this week at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on June 13-15, 2023. However, before the conference opens its doors, Tuesday played host to the Player Protection Symposium, which will be the topic of discussion in today's episode of iGaming Daily, sponsored by SBC Summit Barcelona, l...

Following its Spring publishing, the recommendations and reforms of the Gambling Review’s White Paper have been put to a summer consultation.   Yet amongst all disciplines referred, be it affordability, KYC, customer care, consumer redress stands the reform of the industry’s existing framework on Research, Education and Treatment (RET) – as the most politically charged element of UK gambling proce...

At the recent SBC Summit North America conference, Matt King, CEO at Fanatics Betting and Gaming, formerly of FanDuel, sat down with experienced sports business journalist, Sportico's Eben Novy-Williams in a panel discussion entitled Keeping it Fresh: Revolutionising sports betting and igaming with a fresh mindset.  During this conversation, King revealed why Fanatics has an industry edge and how...

This week witnessed betting operator Sky Bet secure five more years of title partnership with the English Football League.   Under the new deal, Sky Bet will continue its previous 10-year commitment until at least the 2028/29 season, during which time the sports betting firm will contribute 50% more to the EFL overall development. .   There is also a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) being dra...

It’s that time of year when college students across the US are partying the hardest as graduation season is upon us. But college students have been in the news for much less savory reasons recently, notably the relationship between colleges and sportsbooks. Today’s iGaming Daily, sponsored by SBC Summit Barcelona, sees Jessica Welman and Charlie Horner of SBC Americas discuss the termination of Ca...

At the end of 2022 there were three countries from Latin America that had everyone on the edge of their seats - Brazil, Chile and Peru. We all know that the first one is taking its time to regulate the sports betting industry and in recent iGaming Daily episodes we discussed some of the provisional measure details and other developments, but today we’ll be dedicating this space to the other two, C...

In October of last year, the online casino streaming landscape changed following Twitch’s introduction of a new set of rules due to concerns of consumer protection.  At the time, Twitch noted that, before the new rules, safeguards around gambling content were being circumnavigated and the platform stressed that, post implementation, it would issue bans on content from websites offering slots, roul...

The close of May witnessed the foreseen announcement that France and Holland are set to impose further marketing and advertising restrictions on their respective gambling markets.  From July the first, Dutch operators will have to navigate the unspecified complexities of the ‘ban on untargeted advertising’ enforced across all media platforms.  Meanwhile in France - the ANJ has published its guidel...

North Carolina is on the cusp of being the latest US state to legalise commercial sports betting after both chambers pushed through HB347. Yet, one final hurdle must be overcome as the House must sign off on several amendments that the Senate made to the bill. On today’s episode of iGaming Daily, sponsored by SBC Summit Barcelona, Jessica Welman and Charlie Horner of SBC Americas discuss the compo...

This week witnessed Crown Resorts and AUSTRAC agree to A$450m penalty over Anti-money laundering failings and SkyCity being instructed to appoint an independent monitor to oversee its Adelaide venue. The latest news down under continues a worrying trend of regulatory issues, investigations and fines in Australia, mainly relating to Crown and Star Entertainment. In today's episode of iGaming Daily,...