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BettingJobs Roundup: Tartan Army Takes Boston, iGaming Roundtable Meet-Up & attending iGB next week!
It’s been an exciting week at BettingJobs, with our team making the most of new opportunities at home and abroad. In this edition, we’ll share how Associate Director Carla Souter is supporting Scotland at the World Cup in the USA, highlight our CEO Jennifer Innes’s recent business trip to meet clients in Leeds and attend…
Read MoreAll about that ’base
I can shake it, shake it, like I’m supposed to do: Coinbase has launched pre-IPO perpetual futures, letting retail customers take long or short positions on private companies before they list, while at the same time talking up its new sports-centric prediction market combos. Speaking during the company’s system update event this week, Max Branzburg,…
Read MoreNovig, ProphetX enter prediction market fray with CFTC licenses
The news: Novig has received CFTC designation as a Designated Contract Market on Tuesday, clearing the way for the sports prediction market to operate across all 50 states under a single federal regulatory framework. The company filed its DCM application in January and says the approval is the fastest of its kind in CFTC history;…
Read MoreDon’t fence me in
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above: Nevada’s contempt application against Kalshi has put a narrow technical question at the center of the prediction market wars: can an operator build compliant geofencing in-house, on a $190,000 budget, or is that a category error? The argument was kicked off by Nevada, which…
Read MoreDiary of an iGaming Exec – Ulle Skottling
From teaching computer science in Sweden to helping scale some of the industry’s best-known brands, Ulle Skottling has built a career at the intersection of technology, product, and growth.💻🇸🇪 Now, as CEO of DeGaming, he believes the next major evolution in gaming is transparency. In this episode, he explains why blockchain is about far more…
Read MoreBally’s Intralot’s Odyssey
The man of twists and turns: Bally’s intralot CEO Robeson Reeves’ insistence that an Athens listing provides it with a greater level of institutional investor interest than other potential domiciles has been dismissed by an investor, who suggested that a company such as Bally’s Intralot with UK revenues but a Greek listing “falls into no…
Read MoreKick-Off to Pay-Out: Expert Insights into how the World Cup Changes Betting Behaviours
As the eyes of the world turn to the FIFA World Cup, the excitement extends far beyond the pitch; across the online gaming world, companies are preparing for one of the pinnacles of sport. The World Cup doesn’t just capture the imagination of football fans, it transforms the way people engage with betting, and it…
Read MoreLights out for the territory
Opening salvo: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has proposed a sweeping new rulebook for prediction markets that would largely preserve the federal route for most game-outcome and team-performance markets while barring just some sports-related event contracts. Four horsemen: In a 267-page notice issued on Wednesday that set gambling social media ablaze, the agency said…
Read MoreBettingStartups Capital on what makes them write a check—and what sends them away
The news: Three months into BettingStartups Capital, Jesse Learmonth and Paris Smith took live questions from founders during a Defy the Odds Office Hours session—covering due diligence, AI, founder qualities, and where they think the market is getting ahead of itself. The fund writes $100K–$250K checks into early-stage companies across sports betting, iGaming, and B2B…
Read MoreOff Rhodes
You’ll take the high Rhodes: Critics have leapt on the news that ex-UK Gambling Commission CEO Andrew Rhodes is to join top figures from gambling sector legal outfit Harris Hagan in a new strategic advisory firm called Hawkbridge as principal consultant. And I’ll take the low: James Noyes, an arch Commission critic and senior fellow…
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