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selves and GamCarein respect of the funding of a national gambling helpline and the provision of treatment services.” Joelson Wilson’s Suzanne Davies added: “As an organisation that financially bene- fits indirectly from gambling we are proud to support The GREaT Foundation through the provision of pro bono legal advice.”


Olswang advises Danish purchases


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lswanghas advised Sportingbet Plc in the acquisition of Danish gaming


operations Danbook Limited andScan- dic Bookmakers Limited. The deal is ex- pected to close early in 2012 following the satisfaction of conditions including the successful award of new Danish gambling licences to both Danbook and Scandic. Sportingbet’s business development di- rector Paul Roberts commented: “Execut- ing two deals in one whilst also trying to ac- commodate a new regulatory regime was always going to throw up a few tricky ob- stacles, and Olswang provided us with great support and demonstrated high lev- els of determination, commitment and commerciality throughout to help us navi- gate through these issues.”


SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY


Sportech improves data access


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aming firmSportechhas teamed up with US firm Webaloto help stream- line its information processes. Webalo is providing a step-by-step configuration process that connects existing enterprise applications and data to smartphones and tablets. The ability to provide direct access to the specific data and functions that indi- vidual users need streamlines interactions with the enterprise and enhances produc- tivity. Sportech CEO Ian Penrose com- mented: “Webalo lets us combine informa- tion from each of our businesses and pres- ent it to our executives on their smart- phones and tablets. With business opera- tions in several countries, the difference for us, which convinced us to select Weba- lo, was its speed and simplicity.”


LEGAL


GREaT pro bono move with Joelson Wilson


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he GREaT Foundationhas secured sponsorship in kind fromJoelson


Wilsonin the form of pro bono legal support. GREaT chief executive Marc Etches said: “We are delighted to have se- cured the services of Joelson Wilson and are extremely grateful for the role it played in helping us finalise the contrac- tual agreements between our-


Helpline funding G


amCarehas secured a three-year deal to run its telephone gambling helpline with the industry-funded GREaT Foundation, as well as money to provide its counselling and treatment services until the end of March 2012.


Chief executive Andy McLellan said: “The three year funding deal for the helpline at last de- livers the security of funding recom- mended by the Gambling Com- mission’s review in 2009. As well as trialling a freep- hone service, we will also be able to introduce dedicat- ed services for under-16s, non- English speakers,


ANDY MCLELLAN


and partners and other family members, experiment with new approaches to make more use of the skills and expertise of our helpline advisers and so help people earlier and develop our use of social media to reach new audiences.”


TRAINING Betting qualifications T MARC ETCHES


he National Gaming Academy, a consortium of three further education


colleges in Warwickshire, Blackpool and Greenwich, is aiming to bring its training expertise into the betting industry. The col- leges all offer NVQ L2 & L3 Gaming Opera-


ALEX KELLY


Betfred serviced by IGT


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ookmaker Betfredhas become the first customer serviced from IGT Interactive’s new office and datacentre in Gibraltar. Using


IGT’s Gibraltar licence gives Betfred full ac- cess to IGT rgs, the remote game server sys- tem which enables operators to add IGT’s games to their current iGaming platform without investing in a new online casino sys- tem. As an existing IGT customer, Betfred is significantly expanding the range of premi- um games it receives through the new IGT rgs agreement. “We are delighted that Betfred.com has become the first of our partners to be serv- iced from our new office and datacentre in Gibraltar,” said Alex Kelly, IGT vice president of Interactive. “IGT recognises the value and appeal of Gibraltar as a world-leading gam- ing jurisdiction and our new Gibraltar office is ideally located for the sustained growth of our Interactive business.” Betfred.com managing director Chris


Sheffield added: “Betfred.com is a key focus area for the company and we are committed to continually improving the player experi- ence on the site. As we are licensed in Gibraltar ourselves, it was an easy decision to make the move over to the IGT rgs plat- form and boost our selection of market- leading games.”


The opening of the office and datacentre adds to IGT’s European presence and it can offer its complete portfolio of online and mo- bile games directly to Gibraltar-based li- censees. In addition, the new datacentre al- lows IGT to expand the capacity, capability and scalability of the IGT rgs system.


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