The top baseball league in Mexico has reached a deal with a leading sports data and technology company designed to tackle corruption issues. The Liga Mexicana de Beisbol (LMB) has signed up with Genius Sports, and will use the company’s data systems and technology to boost the integrity of its competition. Genius Sports bet monitoring system will review all LMB-focused betting…
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Lombardi Urges NFL To Embrace Sports Betting
A leading NFL figure has urged the league to change its approach to sports betting and embrace the opportunities offered by legalization. Since the May 2018 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the federal law that had prevented states from legalizing sports betting, there has been a scramble in other sports leagues to take advantage of the new…
Read MoreStar-Typ Sport Enter Mobile Esports Market
Star-Typ Sport (STS), one of Poland’s leading bookmakers, and the first to offer esports betting to its customers in 2014, has added an esports section to its mobile platform. The new product, which is available for Android and iOS users, will enable players to bet on tournaments both in Poland and abroad via a range of live betting markets. The…
Read MoreMoves To Legalise Online Gambling In Argentina
Legal online gambling could be on the way in Argentina’s largest province. The Buenos Aires Senate is reported to be considering legislation for legalising the activity in a controversial move that could have major political and economic ramifications. Initial proposals have been put forward by the Governor of Buenos Aires, Maria Eugenia Vidal, as part of the state’s 2019 Budget,…
Read MoreGambling Watchdog Focused On Fairness
The Chief Executive of the UK Gambling Commission, Neil McArthur has urged betting companies to work in unison and to help improve fairness and safety in the UK industry. McArthur was speaking at the second staging of the Raising Standards Conference, held at the ICC in Birmingham. Attended by 170 leaders from over 100 companies, the event is designed to…
Read MoreNew Twist In Ladbrokes Investigation
A report in the Guardian has highlighted a decision by bookmaker Ladbrokes to pay out on a bet it had initially rejected, and the information could have a significant impact on an investigation into the company currently being undertaken by the Independent Betting Arbitration Service (Ibas). Earlier in the week, it was announced that Ibas is looking into complaints that…
Read MoreSearch For Formula One Betting Partner Begins
The search for Formula One’s first official betting partner is underway, following the development of new Formula One betting packages, which could be worth up to £76.8 million. The packages, which were put together in conjuction with sports data company Sportradar and first announced in September, will provide betting operators with significant television exposure through TV graphics, social media channels and…
Read MoreSports Betting Could Be On The Way In Tennessee
Tennessee could be in line to join the small group of US states that have regulated legal sports betting in their territories, after a lawmaker put forward a new sports betting bill. Rick Staples, a Representative in the Tennessee State Legislature, has pre-filed his bill, named HB 0001, which proposes a complete structure for a sports betting sector in the…
Read MoreScout Gaming Brings Fantasy Sport To UK
A new range of fantasy sports products will be available for UK customers following approval from the UK Gambling Commission. A dozen betting operators who hold existing agreements with betting technology company Scout Gaming will be free to introduce fantasy sports products after the company was awarded a licence to operate in the UK. Speaking about the license approval, the CEO of…
Read MoreLottoland Launch Gambling Awareness Programme
Lottery company Lottoland has launched a new gambling awareness programme, aimed at parents and children in Gibraltar. The programme has been named P.A.R.E.N.T. with the initials referring to what the company has described as the six key aspects of behaviour required to protect children from gambling online: parenting, awareness, responsibility, environment, nurturing and trust. The programme has been developed through a…
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