Punters woke up to a new landscape on Tuesday morning with the birth of a global betting giant worth more than £10billion. The merger of Flutter, the owner of Paddy Power and Betfair, and The Stars Group, a Canadian-based online betting and gaming group which bought Sky Bet in 2018, was first proposed last October and was given […]
Big data, trends and AI have been buzz terms that have been heard around conferences halls during gaming exhibitions over the past number of years. Automated pricing has been around for a while now but how customers use it is beginning to change. Since AllSported, the trading solution from Racing Post, involving TXODDS and Banach […]
AllSported, the trading solution from Racing Post, has expanded it’s made to measure pricing offering to greyhound racing. Greyhound racing was one of the last surviving sports during the recent global shutdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide and has the shown ability to operate behind closed doors as it returned in both the UK […]
Shares in GVC Holdings, the parent company of Ladbrokes and Coral, surged on Monday despite it revealing it expects to lose £50 million in earnings per month due to the coronavirus outbreak. The company had previously said that the loss of international sport and retail closures would reduce its monthly ebitda (earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and […]
More than £2.6 million was raised for NHS charities through betting on Saturday’s Virtual Grand National. And the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), the standards body for betting and gaming, hopes that total will grow as winning punters donate some or all their payouts. Announcing the betting profit (after winnings and duties are paid) to […]
The global shutdown of most sporting events due to the COVID-19 outbreak has seen bookmakers and punters alike turn to unfamiliar territories to find some live sport. Horseracing has become the one sport which still offers a glimmer of hope, with racing continuing in Hong Kong and the US and until very recently Ireland and […]
On-course bookmakers in Britain are facing financial difficulty after racing was shutdown until the end of April on Tuesday, with one on-course operator predicting “there will be casualties”. That was the stark warning from the betting ring as layers face what will be at least 45 days without any trading, with some fearing racing will not […]
BHA chief executive Nick Rust does not accept that an extension of the current shutdown until the end of April is inevitable, even though the Covid-19 outbreak is not expected to reach a peak for 12 weeks. He stressed racing’s leaders are striving to ensure the sport will be in a position to resume in Britain as […]
Monday, March 23: Racing Post, part of Spotlight Sports Group, has focused on delivering all available global racing content to customers and partners during the current COVID-19 shutdown. The team has scaled up it’s service to offer a full suite of content from territories where racing is continuing, including the USA and Hong Kong. During […]
Education trust and Racing To School team up to raise gambling awareness The Young Gamers & Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM) and Racing To School teamed up on the eve of the Cheltenham Festival to help raise awareness about the issues surrounding gambling among pupils at a school in Liverpool. It was the second collaboration between […]
