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The regulated betting industry’s integrity body ESSA and sports data and monitoring company Sportradar have entered a partnership to tackle match-fixing in tennis.

As part of the deal, the combined information from Sportradar’s Fraud Detection Service covering over 450 operators and ESSA members’ customer transactional data to provide a comprehensive market overview and alert system.

The approach will initially focus solely on tennis, which has attracted a great deal of attention in recent months regarding the integrity of its events, following which both parties will consider expanding the scope of the cooperation.

Mike O’Kane, chairman of ESSA, said: “The arrangement has clear benefits for both parties and represents a growing desire to complement each other’s efforts around match-fixing. By utilising the core strengths of both systems we have the potential to create an unparalleled level of data from which to detect betting related corruption. That can then be used to stamp out attacks on betting operators and protect sporting events; put simply, everyone wins.”

Malta-based operator Giodani Ltd has announced the launch of the Revsharix affiliate programme for its online sports-betting and casino sites ibetsolution, yoapuesto and euaposto.

Powered by Income Access’ affiliate management platform, the programme allows affiliates to begin promoting these brands.

Affiliates are offered a revenue share commission structure of between 25% and 40%, depending on the number of new depositing players an affiliate refers to any of the new brands. Exclusive promotions for Revsharix’s affiliate partners will be announced in the near future.

“As an innovation-driven company, Giodani developed Revsharix to offer affiliates a refreshing take on the standard igaming affiliate programme and to position our brands as some of the most competitive in Latin America,” said James Costa, COO of Giodani Ltd. “With South America presenting itself as one of the most promising regions on the planet, we’re looking to develop new acquisition channels and our choice of Income Access confirms the affiliate channel’s important role in our acquisition strategy.”

Slots and table games supplier Realistic Games has announced the launch of its latest slot, 8^th Wonder.

The three reel, five win line game comes complete with a full house bonus that allows players to double their win when they land a full house of any symbol.

The online game has been developed in both Flash and HTML5 to provide the best user experience over the widest variety of devices.

“We’re very confident 8^th Wonder will prove a hit with both operators and players, particularly among those who enjoy games on their mobiles,” Realistic CEO, Andy Harris, said. “Three reel slots are perfect for mobile, as they are fast and simple to play, and work really nicely on the available real estate.”

NetEnt has released its latest slots game, Theme Park: Tickets of Fortune.

Users have the chance to snap up extra prizes with the Claw Feature, which grabs a toy from under the reels and awards a coin win, or get big wins with the Theme Park Ticket game, where players can gain access to one of six bonus games – the Punchbag, Sledgehammer, Can Tower, Skee Ball, Fishing Game and the Duck Shoot.

Simon Hammon, chief product officer of NetEnt, said: “With the release of Theme Park: Tickets of Fortune, NetEnt is making sure that players have the slot game ride of their lives. Its vivid graphics, and fantastic range of mini-games and features, bring all the fun of the fair to our customers’ platforms.”

Bettingexpert.com-powered odds comparison site SmartBets has utilised its automated avatar technology BetBot on Facebook to provide tips for Euro 2016 fans.

Autonomously participating in conversations with users, BetBot responds to users via Facebook Messenger, providing real-time odds on upcoming games from major bookmakers through SmartBets.

Bettingexpert.com claims it is the first in the betting and gaming industry to utilise the automated avatar technology on Facebook, and expect to roll out the BetBot for further sports and tournaments.

Henrik Dam Honor?, head of pilot plant for Better Collective, said “SmartBets and bettingexpert.com have always been about helping punters make the best bets possible – BetBot is that idea personified. BetBot will interact with users, and help guide us in new directions based on user needs.”

Gaming and betting solutions provider BetConstruct has signed an agreement to provide its Live Scouting Data Service to Fonbet.

Through its collaboration with partner Megafeed’s scouting network of 750 match reporters from all continents, BetConstruct will provide live data from 4,000 matches every month. The partnership with BetConstruct will enable Fonbet to improve its pre-match and in-play betting offering and engage more players through the coverage of unique sporting events.

“Having this contract signed, we are now getting data for thousands of sporting events and can provide our clients with better offers,” said Alexandra Sergeeva, Fonbet CMO. “We highly appreciate our partnership with BetConstruct and are willing to discuss opportunities for further cooperation.”

Vahe Baloulian, BetConstruct CEO, said: “We are confident that our data products will make our partner even more competitive and profitable, and we look forward to building on this first effort.”

Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) is relaunching its CaesarsCasino.com site on NYX Gaming Group‘s Open Platform System (OPS) in New Jersey.

Through the OPS, CaesarsCasino.com will elevate its player marketing and loyalty services and continue with a growing portfolio of desktop and mobile games from NYX and its third-party content supplier network.

The terms of the agreement include options that can further deepen the parties’ strategic relationship, pending further expansion of online gaming in the United States and/or CIE’s strategy in New Jersey.

Marco Ceccarelli, senior vice president and chief information officer for CIE, said: “CaesarsCasino is excited to be supported by an award-winning and deeply-functional platform in NYX’s OPS. The platform and games will undoubtedly be catalysts for future growth in New Jersey.”

BetVictor Casino is giving away ?100,000 in real cash over four weeks, an offer that marks the beginning of a new direction with more to come, according to the firm.

Players will be randomly selected to a share of ?25,000 in cash for each of the four weeks – prizes ranging from ?10 to the ?5,000 weekly jackpot. To qualify, players must opt in and place a minimum of 20 real money bets during the weekly promotional period.

The offer complements BetVictor’s ongoing ‘Million Pound Goal’ campaign, which will see a guaranteed ?1,000,000 given away on the final of Euro 2016

BetVictor head of casino, Emma Tompkins said: “The Real Cash Giveaway will guarantee that 500 of our customers will win their share of ?25,000 each week, over the next four weeks. We’re delighted to be able to offer this kind of outstanding value to our customers.”