Spanish soccer giants, FC Barcelona have announced that they have signed a major sponsorship deal with 1xBet, one of the world’s fastest-growing online betting companies. Effective from July 1, the partnership sees 1xBet proudly become a Global Partner of the reigning La Liga champions. 1xBet will hold that title for the next five seasons, as […]
One of the more interesting legal cases centered on sports betting ended with a whimper this week, with the dropping of a UK High Court action pitting Northern Ireland student Megan McCann against prominent book Bet365 in a case about more than a million pounds in unpaid accumulator-bet winnings. As reported in several prominent UK […]
The ongoing shift of online gambling firms’ operations from Gibraltar to Malta continues this week with the announcement by veteran British firm Bet365 that it is shifting a large section of its corporate operations in Gibraltar to its newer offices in Malta. Bet365 opened its Malta office in 2015 as a hedge against the possibility […]
So, you thought that the only strange sports-betting tale coming out of this year’s Kentucky Derby was the disqualification of the initial winner, Maximum Security, and the lawsuit that has since followed? No, not a chance. Matter of fact, that disqualification led directly to a second bizarre story, that of an amateur horse bettor in […]
The Council of Europe, the pan-European organisation that serves as the continent’s leading human-rights organization, has announced that an international treaty dealing with how match-fixing in sport should be handled will go into effect on September 5, 2019, following its full ratification by a fifth Council member country. Treaty No. 215, titled “Council of Europe […]
