Business & M&A

SBC Summit, the betting and iGaming industry’s flagship conference and exhibition, is on track to welcome 40,000 delegates to Lisbon next week for its third consecutive year in the Portuguese capital, and its most ambitious edition to date. Taking place 29 September-1 October at Feira Internacional…

DELULU Gaming will host a private C-level dinner for iGaming executives in Lisbon on Sept. 30, bringing together around 300 industry leaders and executives at Bonança restaurant on the city's waterfront. The invite-only event will take place during SBC in Lisbon and is intended to provide DELULU's…

iGaming aggregator Infingame shares findings on one of the more persistent product debates among its clients: whether retention is better served by a wide game library that lets players explore, or a narrower set of titles that players go deep on. According to Infingame's observations, variety crea…

In this article, 1xBet explores how its partnership with Conor McGregor helped turn interest around the Ryan Garcia vs. Conor Benn fight into an interactive fan activation. A major fight ends with the final bell. However, when a brand builds its own narrative around it, audience engagement continue…

iGaming technology provider SOFTSWISS will host an expert panel at SBC Summit Lisbon on Sept. 29 to examine how iGaming trends have evolved over the past five years and what operators should focus on next. The session, titled “2027 SOFTSWISS iGaming Trends Report | Five Years of iGaming: Which Tren…

The Global Gaming Expo (G2E), presented by the American Gaming Association (AGA) and organized by RX, has announced a bonus main stage session focused on a united front against prediction markets on Tuesday, Sept. 29. The session, titled “A United Front: Confronting Prediction Markets Together,” wi…

BGaming has partnered with online casino and sportsbook operator win2day as the iGaming content provider enters the Austrian market. The initial rollout will give win2day access to five of BGaming's most popular titles, including Wild West Trueways, Lady Wolf Moon, and Bonanza Billion. The games ar…

Maxxi Labs, the multi-studio collective that is focused on building new and exciting titles for the iGaming industry by sharing industry know-how, has announced Mad Ducks by Bad Company, a member studio, as an early Stake exclusive. The game, Mad Ducks, is going to be available at the award-winning…

Macau’s average daily casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) for the first 20 days of September was MOP610 million (US$75.5 million), a run-rate below market consensus. It also represented a circa 14-percent month-on-month decline that appeared to be led by “premium segments”, said banking institution U…

Kemi Badenoch has blasted the Labour government for placing UK gambling in a “tax doom loop” ineffective for the economy and “cannibalising” the high street. Criticism by the Conservative Party leader comes as focus turns to the first Autumn Budget of new Chancellor John Healey, and on whether the…

Underdog, the sports prediction market and fantasy sports pioneer, has signed a new partnership with Birches Health, a leading organization that specializes in gambling disorder treatment. The partnership focuses on expanding responsible play resources and consumer protection measures available on…

MGM Osaka may need 1,645 foreign workers in year three, NLI Research Institute estimates, raising questions over visas for casino staff. The post Osaka IR could need 1,645 foreign workers in third year of operation: study first appeared on Asia Gaming News | AGB - Asia Gaming Brief.

A political consulting firm behind President Trump’s prominent social media accounts is caught in a legal battle with one of its co-founders, who is alleged to have embezzled millions to fund his luxurious lifestyle, which involves gambling. X Strategies Goes After One of Its Own X Strategies manag…

Tim Miller, former Executive Director at the Gambling Commission, has become the latest ex-senior figure from Britain’s betting and gaming regulator to enter consultancy work. Miller, who announced his resignation from the Commission in late June 2026, has set up GamReg Consulting, a global special…

Twenty First Group and FX1 announce partnership focused on combat sports.

Gluecksspiel Behoerde (GGL), Germany’s federal gambling authority, has called for an expansion of its direct powers to combat illegal gambling and to expose criminal networks. The message was relayed by Ronald Benter, Co-President of the GGL, who laid concerns that the regulatory framework of Germa…

Ahead of exhibiting at SBC Summit 2026, Ben Holmes, Growth Director at Moloco, advises operators on how best to buy ads at speed and to prove where the budget actually goes when acquiring players around major sporting events. Major sporting events create one of the year’s strongest opportunities fo…

Andrew Lyman, the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner, dismissed assertions regarding the end of Gibraltar’s gambling industry in spite of the layoffs and the adverse effects of greater taxes imposed in the UK. Lyman spoke about the layoffs affecting gambling companies in Gibraltar and expressed suppor…