May 6, 2021, 12:50 pm ·
Live Casino specialist Evolution this week announced that it has launched a selection of its content with Entain-owned online casino and sports betting brands Ladbrokes and Coral.
Under the terms of a commercial agreement between the casino games maker and provider and the major gambling operator, Evolution is also set to soon launch its suite of products with Entain’s Gala Casino and Gala Bingo iGaming brands.
The partnership will eventually see Evolution integrate its entire range of gaming titles with its partner’s
Ladbrokes, Coral, and Gala online platforms in the United Kingdom. The phased integration of content has kicked off with the provider’s Live Casino titles and gameshow-style products, including Lightning Roulette and Crazy Time. These are now available on Ladbrokes and Coral’s .co.uk sites.
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April 30, 2021, 6:31 am ·
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has suspended the remote B2C license of online gambling firm Nektan (Gibraltar) Limited and has launched a review into the operator’s activities, saying it is believed to have breached conditions of its license.
The license suspension became effective from April 27, 2021, according to a message on UKGC’s official website. This means that it is now illegal for Nektan to provide online gambling services via its UK-facing gaming sites.
The now suspended license allowed the operator to provide Internet casino and bingo products to UK players.
Nektan (Gibraltar) Limited is the B2C arm of the larger Nektan group that
Sazka groups UK operations under new Allwyn brand amid lottery bid
20th April 2021
| By Robert Fletcher
Pan-European lottery and gaming giant Sazka Group is to bring together its UK operations under the new ‘Allwyn’ corporate identity as it bids for the country s latest National Lottery licence.
The new Allwyn brand will group Sazka’s UK-facing operations under a single umbrella. In 2019, the operator generated more than €17.0bn (£14.7bn/$20.5bn), across a network of 63,000 points of sale and a number of digital platforms in the UK.
Allwyn will run alongside Sazka’s other businesses operating in the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, and Austria. The new brand was created in collaboration with London based agency North.
Looking for the next big thing in lottery
14th April 2021
| By Joanne Christie
Amit Lakhani, investment director at Zeal Ventures, explains how Zeal’s investments in lottery start-ups are aimed at attracting new audiences into what is often seen as an ageing vertical. By Joanne Christie.
When Zeal Network abandoned lottery betting and shifted its business model to focus on brokerage back in 2019, it signified a clear move towards a more traditional type of lottery operation.
Despite the lower margins of brokerage, the company was convinced the legal position of lottery betting had become too precarious to be sustainable. The company’s financial results since the change would seem to indicate that the decision to work as partners of rather than competitors to official lotteries is paying off.