Wire EMEA
POS Falls Against Turnover Rise for FDJ
La Française des Jeux latest quarterly shows that despite the closure of nearly 10 per cent of the group's points of sale, stakes are up 11.8 per cent to €4.6bn.
Turnover is up 5.2 per cent to €538m. Compared to 2019, the last 'normal' year, the FDJ recorded increases of six per cent and sales growth of four per cent.
FRANCE SPORTS BETTING
UK – BtoBet’s sportsbook platform has received full certification in the UK and can now offer UK operators in the market its technology for the sports betting sector. Dima Reiderman, CCO at BtoBet said: “We are enthused that we have been certified in the United Kingdom and are now able to start operations there. Our aim is to expand our footprint in regulated markets, with particular emphasis on the European front, so that more operators in these markets have the possibility to offer our bespoke betting experience to their players.”
UK – SIS has gone live with the delivery of its greyhound racing content in a Watch and Bet format to LeoVegas. Alongside LeoVegas, customers of Bet UK and
21.co.uk will also have access to the supplier’s exclusive UK and Irish greyhound racing content, with the launch providing all the brands in the LeoVegas group with profitable short-form content throughout the day, with a betting event taking place every three minutes.
MALTA – Green Jade Games has bolstered its team with two studio hires. John Chasoulidis Abela joins from Gaming Corps as Studio Manager while Anatoly Rossinsky joins from Caruso as Senior Devops Manager with Green Jade set to make additional hires in the coming months to support its expansion plans. Mr. Chasoulidis Abela has a background in video game development and spent seven years
as Game Producer for Yggdrasil Gaming. The addition of Mr. Rossinsky, who has over 10 years experience in e-Commerce, will help Green Jade focus on improving platform functionality.
SLOVENIA – Comtrade Gaming has announced a strategic partnership with ALOT Solutions. The deal sees ALOT Solutions making its Prize Cover and Lottery Games available as a bundled solution to new operators via Comtrade Gaming’s i-gaming platform (icore). “Lottoland is the No.1 brand in lottery betting and via ALOT Solutions, our B2B business, we are continually expanding our reach. Partnering with Comtrade Gaming will allow us to work with other operators in new markets to provide our compelling games with huge jackpot prizes,” commented Mike Carruthers, CEO of ALOT Solutions.
“The partnership with ALOT Solutions is a fantastic win for Comtrade Gaming and a first of its kind,” said Steven Valentine, Director of Interactive. “ALOT Solutions is the biggest name in prize cover lottery and this deal enables us to offer these lottery products to our top tier operators via a partnership they can trust to deliver.”
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Results published by La Française des Jeux (FDJ) in its latest quarterly report show that despite the closure of nearly 10 per cent of the group's points of sale, stakes are up 11.8 per cent to €4.6bn. Turnover is up 5.2 per cent to €538m. Compared to 2019, the last 'normal' year, the FDJ recorded increases of six per cent and sales growth of four per cent.
Stakes recorded by FDJ in the first quarter of 2021 amounted to €4.6bn, including lottery stakes of €3.5bn, an increase of 3.8 per cent and more than 10 per cent when excluding Amigo. Drawings totalled €1.3bn, up 2.6 per cent and more than 20 per cent excluding Amigo. Te closure of bars and strict sanitary measures limiting point-of-sale parking continued to have a significant impact on Amigo, whose stakes are down by more than 50 per cent.
Lotto and Euromillions stakes benefited from several long cycles, notably Euromillions with a new winnings record of €210m. Instant game stakes reached €2.1bn, up 4.6 per cent, benefitting from the good performance of launches and relaunches during the quarter.
Te FDJ underlined "a strong dynamic of the digital lottery", up by nearly 90 per cent driven
ProNet’s horse racing debut with BetMakers Technology Group
UK
Platform provider Pronet Gaming is launching its first- ever horse racing solution after securing a partnership with BetMakers Technology Group.
Pronet Gaming’s sportsbook customers will benefit from the deal with the Australia- listed company by gaining access to over 250,000 races per year from more than 20 countries around the world, including the UK, Ireland, Australia and the US.
Te BetMakers racing solution incorporates live streaming of up to 2,500 races every week, with bet types covered including traditional win and place fixed odds markets and pari-mutuels, as well as
by the increase of nearly 70 per cent in the number of players compared to the first quarter of 2020. As such, digital bets almost doubled their weight in the lottery to nearly 12 per cent.
With a calendar of sporting events back to normal, sports betting stakes stand at €1.1bn, up 46.1 per cent, driven by a high rate of return to players which favoured reinvestment.
Stakes increased on all distribution channels, up 5.7 per cent at point of sale to nearly €4bn and 87.2 per cent online, to nearly €0.6bn - more than 12 per cent of the group's total stakes compared to more than seven per cent in the first quarter of 2020.
“Despite an environment still affected by the health context, the first quarter confirms the good direction of our activities, with stakes exceeding the levels recorded before the crisis,” commented Stéphane Pallez, CEO of the operator. “After reaching nearly 10 per cent of activity in 2020, digital uploads continue to grow at a high rate and network activity is holding up. Te lottery events programme and a dense sporting calendar, including Euro football, should allow us to continue this momentum in the months to come.”
popular tote exotics and fixed- odds derivatives.
Operators using Pronet Gaming’s sportsbook services will also benefit from BetMakers’ high-margin SameRaceMultis, which offer accumulator bets within one race, as well as expanded racing form and dynamic content in support of the race cards. Greyhound and harness racing are also covered.
Tomas Molloy, Sportsbook and Trading Director at Pronet Gaming, said: “We look forward to working with the BetMakers team for our entry into the horse racing market by offering an unparalleled global racing product.
“Our strategy is to give our clients a world-class product offering and, by partnering with BetMakers, we continue to expose our client base to the best the industry has to offer.”
UK
IMG ARENA has acquired FlightScope Services, the data collection, audio-visual production and tracking technology specialist in golf and tennis. Based out of Gliwice, Poland, FlightScope Services will be fully incorporated into the IMG ARENA offering under the continued oversight of Jacek Gronek and Wojtek Szumilas, who will join IMG ARENA, along with around 160 employees.
IMG ARENA will invest significant funds and resource to introduce FlightScope Services’ innovative technology into other sports in its portfolio, including football, basketball and volleyball, and major US sports. IMG ARENA will also use the FlightScope Services’ technology to introduce additional products and services to federations and rights holders under the new pillar of IMG ARENA Rightsholder Solutions.
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