Gambling Industry News This Week

Sega Games hits the online gaming marketplace and has choosen Neteller to handle payment processing.  Sports betting corruption is on the Ladbrokes hit-list and Sportech gets 9.9% of the company bought up by Playtech to allow them more access to the sportsbetting gambling market.

Sega Games Chooses Neteller as Payment Processor

The newly launched Sega Games has chosen Neovia Financials to supply it with payment services through its top brand, Neteller. This was announced by Neovia after it attended this year’s International Gaming Expo in London and sign on board a number of top gambling operators. Sega Games recently launched Sega Casino and Sega Casino. “Neovia continues to capitalize on the remarkable growth of the online gaming market by providing trusted, secure and innovative payment services to one of the largest and best names in the industry, Sega Games Ltd.,” Dan Starr of Neovia.

Ladbrokes Steps up Fight Against Sports Betting Corruption
Ladbrokes has further expressed its commitment to fight against sports betting corruption by becoming the first group with an online and offline presence to sign up with the European Sports Security Association. By belonging to ESSA, Ladbrokes will report irregular betting patterns to the authorities, among other things. “This is an important step to ensuring ESSA becomes the industry standard organization that has the support of both online and offline operators,” said Khalid Ali, the Secretary General of ESSA. “We welcome Ladbrokes and we are sure they have an important contribution to developing industry wide standards in this area. We would urge all operators in the industry, online and offline to wok with ESSA.”

Playtech Purchases Sportech Shares

Playtech has announced that it has purchased 20 million shares in the UK based Sportech gaming operator, to acquire a 9.9% stake in the company. This will provide Playtech with the opportunity to enter further into the UK football betting market, since Sportech owns the profitable New Football Pools brand. In turn, Sportech will purchase the US based Scientific Games Racing, which will allow Playtech to spread its casino products over both platforms. “This is a further significant alliance for Playtech in the growing international regulated gaming arena,” said Playtech Chief Executive Officer, Mor Weizer.

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