iGaming Business – Sports and betting-related services company Sportradar has agreed a three-year extension to its partnership with the Football Association of Serbia (FSS) governing body. Under the extended partnership, Sportradar will continue to serve as the official sports data partner of the FSS for the next three seasons. The contract will include all matches in the Jelen Super Liga, Prva Liga Srbije, Kup Srbije national competitions and all other tournaments organised or governed by the FSS. The deal will also cover all home matches of the Serbia national and U-21 teams. “We are delighted to partner with Sportradar to…

iGaming Business – 888sport, the sportsbetting division of online gambling operator 888 Holdings, has announced the launch of a new multimedia advertising campaign in the UK as part of a move to help promote improvements to its sportsbetting service. Titled ‘Bet You Can’, the campaign will be the first to introduce television advertising for the 888sport.com domain, as it will run across several major UK television networks as well as online and through various outdoor advertising. The campaign will highlight new in-play and pre-event markets that have been integrated into the 888sport back office, as well features such as the…

Last week, the latest appeals court refused to hear New Jersey’s sports betting challenge of the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) law. And Governor Chris Christie immediately announced he would take the fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the upper court refuses to hear the case or simply announces that the law is constitutional, New Jersey will have no further recourse and the chance of having the law repealed or amended could be dead forever. The New Jersey Governor along with other legislators believe the state is being wrongly handcuffed by the law…

BBC – Six men have been arrested by officers from the National Crime Agency investigating alleged match fixing in English football. At least three footballers are reported to be among those held across the country, but the BBC understands that none is linked to professional clubs. Sources have said the suspects include ex-Premier League player Delroy Facey. The NCA said the focus of the operation was a suspected international illegal betting syndicate. t is thought the suspects are being held by police in the Midlands. The NCA was launched this year to fight organised and serious crime. It said it…

Australian Gambling – WORLD Cup qualifiers and other soccer matches in Australia could have been fixed by an international gambling syndicate. Seven men have been arrested across England this week, two of which have been charged with conspiring to defraud Asian bookmakers by ‘influencing the course of soccer and matches and placing bets thereon” during November this year. The men accussed, Chann Sankaran, a 33-year-old Singapore national, and Krishna Sanjey Ganeshan, a 43-year-old with dual British and Singaporean nationality, will appear at a magistrates’ court in Cannock, central England, on Friday The maximum prison sentence for the offence is 10…

Sportal – Forget the issues around Qatar, FIFA or Financial Fair Play – according to those in power at the top of world soccer, match fixing is the biggest threat to the sport today. But it won’t be Sepp Blatter or Michel Platini who take the lead on match fixing. Instead Chris Eaton, a former policeman in Victoria is the man the criminals and the fixers have to fear. Indeed, Eaton looks as if he has stepped straight off the set of LA Confidential, and his approach to crime-fighting is unapologetically old school. “Criminality is pretty much amateurish in every…

iGaming Business – UK bookmaker Ladbrokes has teamed up with mobile technology specialist firm Chelsea Apps Factory to offer a single dedicated resource in order to accelerate the development of its mobile offering. Under the deal, which will begin formally in December, the Ladbrokes mobile sportsbook team will be co-located in a London hub with Chelsea App Factory staff. The two teams will work together on improving the bookmaker’s mobile product, analysing customer behaviour and using new technology to strengthen mobile products. The initial impact of the partnership will be based around football’s 2014 Fifa World Cup international team tournament…

iGaming Business – Online gaming brand Bodog Asia has responded to reports that police raided the company’s office in Manila, Philippines. According to reports, the police were investigating claims that Bodog had been operating illegal gambling services in the Philippines, but there have been counter claims that the raid was “politically motivated”. “Bodog Asia has been accused of running a numbers game to residents of the Philippines,” the statement read. “Part of the licence agreement is not to offer services to residents of the Philippines and, therefore, Bodog do not. “The local police are, however, obliged to follow up the…