Minimum 5-Year Sentence for Celeb US Tout Adam Meyer in Extortion Case Go back to Blog One of the more bizarre news stories we’ve been monitoring here at SBO over the past couple of years has finally reached its apparent…
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UK Sports Betting Integrity Forum Claims ‘Good Progress’, Updates Action Plan Go back to Blog The UK-based Sports Betting Integrity Forum (SBIF), a collaborative, quasi-official group of government agencies and gambling operators, has issued its 2016 annual report and followed…
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GBGA ‘Disappointed’ in ECJ’s Gibraltar-UK Single Entity Ruling Go back to Blog In recent days, the European Court of Justice’s Advocate General, Maciej Szpunar, has thrust a legal dagger into the hopes of Gibraltar-based betting firms to remain exempt from the…
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Famed US Sports Bettor Billy Walters Seeks Dismissal of Insider-Trading Case Go back to Blog One of the strangest sports betting-related court cases in history just took another step into the land of the bizarre, where one of the most…
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UK Announces Revised Bookmaker Levy on Horseracing Profits Go back to Blog The United Kingdom’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced today a revised levy system aimed at restructuring and increasing the amount of money returned to British horseracing interests…
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‘Unlucky’ William Hill Announces Mild Profit Warning Go back to Blog Blaming part of a lower-than-expected return on “unfavourable football and horseracing results” in December, stodgy old sports betting giant William Hill has announced that the company’s operating profit for…
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The ‘Trump’ Question and Sports Betting in America Go back to Blog It’s time to take a look across the Atlantic, where the United States of America is just a few weeks away from doing the globally unthinkable: inaugurating Donald…
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BetStars Parent Amaya Stays Public as Former CEO Baazov Drops Bid Go back to Blog Amaya, Inc., the parent company of BetStars, one of the newer options for online sports-betting fans, will remain publicly traded after the company’s former CEO,…
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Ladbrokes Coral, GVC Merger Talks Fall Through Go back to Blog Merger mania continues to engulf the gambling industry, with the latest news being the collapse of a reverse takeover planned by GVC Holdings that would have engulfed the larger…
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Ladbrokes Coral Eyes Australia’s Tabcorp in Merger-Busting Move Go back to Blog Prominent UK bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral, fresh off its own approved and largely completed merger, is now looking at acquiring one of Australia’s largest books, Tabcorp. The possible acquisition of…
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