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3 days ago | 
igamingbusiness.com | Nicole Macedo
New Zealand’s gambling harm strategy is updated every three years, as per a requirement within New Zealand’s 2003 Gambling Act. Doocey said the funding will help improve access to support for players experiencing harm. It will also strengthen prevention and early intervention and reduce the impact of harm across the market. New Zealand is currently building out a regulatory framework for a legal iGaming market, to launch in 2026.
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6 days ago | 
igamingbusiness.com | Nicole Macedo
Helmut Becker, CEO of lottery brokerage Zeal Network, believes operators should “focus on innovation in their own business” rather than challenging prize draws. In Q3 last year, the UK Gambling Commission suggested prize draw offerings could be cannibalising traditional lotteries in the UK, based on player data for the quarter.
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1 week ago | 
ggbmagazine.com | Nicole Macedo
GGB is committed to providing updated news and analysis on our weekly news site, GGBNews.com. Can Canada’s other provinces replicate the success of Ontario?
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2 weeks ago | 
igamingbusiness.com | Matt Rybaltowski |Nicole Macedo
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2 weeks ago | 
igamingbusiness.com | Nicole Macedo
As Catena Media confirmed further layoffs in Q1, Imogen Goodman explores the reasons behind mass industry redundancies in hubs Gibraltar and Malta. Exhibiting at this year’s iGaming NEXT conference in Valletta in early May, recruitment company TalentBet found itself busier than ever. But rather than a surge in corporate clients, the stand was overwhelmed with industry employees who had found themselves back on the market due to redundancy.
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2 weeks ago | 
igamingbusiness.com | Jess Marquez |Nicole Macedo
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3 weeks ago | 
igamingbusiness.com | Nicole Macedo
Veikkaus is preparing to relaunch its sportsbook in the coming weeks using OpenBet’s platform. A new in-house trading team supports the product, producing odds on Finnish sports. The operator moved off the DraftKings B2B platform to enhance its competitiveness in the soon to open Finnish market. Veikkaus will join private operators in a competitive online gambling market as of January 2027.
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3 weeks ago | 
igamingbusiness.com | Nicole Macedo
Integrating two new acquisitions into an already freshly restructured business is a mammoth task, and one EveryMatrix found itself grappling with last year. Having concluded a lengthy vertical integration process across its business, EveryMatrix group CEO Ebbe Groes says the company’s approach to absorbing new businesses changed. The company acquired UK-based betting and iGaming platform FSB in an all-cash deal last July, and then Fantasma Games later in the year.
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3 weeks ago | 
igamingbusiness.com | Nicole Macedo
Paul Burns, President and CEO of Canada’s trade body, believes the black market rise has killed the monopoly model. “Because of the large unregulated iGaming market presence in Canada, no one’s had a monopoly for 25 years, and that’s the reality,” Burns said in a recent interview with GGB magazine. Alberta last week approved its iGaming Act, propelling the province closer towards a regulated online gaming market. The launch is expected in the first half of 2026.
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1 month ago | 
igamingbusiness.com | Nicole Macedo
The digital arm of Veikkaus, Finland's gambling monopoly, is overhauling its technology and poaching industry talent, as it prepares to compete. Speaking to iGB, Jarkko Nordlund, EVP for Veikkaus’ soon-to-be spun-out online business, says he is determined to prove Veikkaus’ doubters wrong. Nordlund leads the digital business arm that will be spun out to offer products to consumers in Finland’s open gambling market. “Everyone is waiting for Veikkaus to fail.
