Sports Betting

Kenya: Unlicensed Betting Firms to be Denied Paybill Numbers, Shortcodes Services

The HALLO ECHO

  The Communications Authority (CA) of Kenya has directed Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to ensure the use of licensed ICT platforms for betting is done to duly licensed firms. CA Director General Ezra Chiloba on Saturday further ordered the Operators to immediately discontinue the issuance of licensed ICT platforms and services to gaming and betting…

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BlueBet Secures Market Access in Fourth US State

The HALLO ECHO

  BlueBet Holdings Ltd has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary BlueBet Indiana LLC has signed an online market access agreement with Horseshoe Casino – Hammond, a 400,000 square-foot casino located in Hammond, Indiana owned by global casino giant Caesars Entertainment. The market access agreement is BlueBet’s fourth in the US and will enable BlueBet to…

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At $300 Million, This is Expected to be California’s Most Expensive Ballot Fight Ever. And it Just Got More Intense

The HALLO ECHO

  In a sign of the bruising, expensive fight to come, two Native American tribes are coming out in support of a newly qualified ballot measure to allow online sports gambling — instead of a separate gaming measure backed by dozens of other tribes. On Wednesday, two tribes — the Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians…

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Ethiopia’s Ministry of Women and Social Affairs Seeks to Ban Sports Betting

The HALLO ECHO

  The Ministry of Women and Social Affairs of Ethiopia has announced that it is working to get sports betting banned in the country. Abebe Haimanot, a representative of the Ministry’s Youth Personnel Development Directorate, said works were underway to get sports betting banned taking into consideration the issue of youth and youth personality development…

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ComeOn Gaming Secures GlüNeuRStv Sportsbook Licence

The HALLO ECHO

  The registry of the Ministry of Sports and the Interior of Saxony Anhalt has confirmed that it has granted a German Fourth Interstate Treaty (GlüNeuRStv) licence to ComeOn Gaming. Cherry AB’s B2C unit has registered the brands sunmaker.de, comeonwetten.de and mobilebet.de under its approved German licence. Though having secured its GlüNeuRStv licence, ComeOn has…

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MediaTroopers Secures Maryland License

The HALLO ECHO

  MediaTroopers, the pioneering digital marketing agency specializing in online sports betting and casino, announced this week that it received its Maryland license and is planning to launch activities in the Old Line State. Approved by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, MediaTroopers is now able to offer its decades of combined expertise and…

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