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Kindred Group is withdrawing from the US market, intending to fully complete its own operations in North America by the end of the second quarter of 2024.

In real time, Kindred's US operations are not profitable. This market withdrawal conclusion is the direct result of the operator's internal strategic analysis, which may be long-lasting and lead to a resale to a third party.

The operator believes that by withdrawing from the US, it will be able to reallocate resources to key markets where it already shows its best side.

"Competition in the market means that major resources are being addressed to reduce the slowdown of the market darlings, and with our current capabilities, this is not possible," Kindred Group said.

The continued losses in the US, despite efforts to optimize in recent quarters, are putting undue pressure on the profitability group's long-term goal, the message said.

The Kindred Unibet brand operates in real time in Arizona, Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and was withdrawn from Iowa in December 2022.

1. Goldman Sachs downgrades major ratings amid concerns over the front-loading of online business

Investment bank and financial bidding giant Goldman Sachs has downgraded Enta's rating from "buy" to "sell" amid concerns over business repositioning, especially in the online division.

Enta's shares were lowered from 1. 450 pence to 820 pence, a real 2. 9% drop from yesterday's (November 27) closing price. The closing price of 844 pence on the first day of the week is 1. 7% lower than Friday's closing price of 859 pence.

The drop came as Goldman Sachs announced that it was downgrading the ratings of Ladbrokes and Bwin. According to a Goldman Sachs statement, there have been problems with Enta's rise in recent months. According to a Goldman Sachs statement, this is the result of regulatory moments, increased competition and market dynamics.

In particular, it has affected major work on online gambling. Goldman Sachs expects the online unit's slipper proforma to turn negative in the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first half of 2024. It assumes that withdrawal will turn upward in the second half of the year.

In relation to this, Goldman Sachs has also lowered its monitoring of promotional effects through 2024 and 2025. According to the bank, it is about 30% lower than the previous announcement, and the flow of free currency is still worsening.

2. Entain to settle Turkey negligence with HMRC by paying 600 million pounds

The owner of Ladbrokes and Coral has agreed to pay about 600 million pounds to resolve an investigation into bribery allegations at the company's properties in Turkey.

Entertaine has agreed with the HM Revenue and Customs, and has announced that it will pay a total of £ 585 million in the form of fine and profit bonus.

The agreement is paid in four years, in four years, in addition to fines, a £ 10 million pound of £ 20 million and the cost of the HMRC and the British Royal Public Prosecutor's Office (CPS) will be paid in four years.

"This legacy business is about a company sold by the former management six years ago." Since this event has happened, the group has changed immeasurably. It is expanded in business and is currently widely recognized as the best responsible business in the class, with the highest level of corporate governance in all businesses.

3. Brazil provides a vote against tariffs while the Senate are divided into online casino status

The final voting required to approve the Brazilian federal sports tariff has been postponed.

Today (Wednesday, November 29), a bill 3. 626/23 will be voted at the Federal House of Representatives plenary session. However, the Senator was confused at the last minute of deliberations over whether or not the online game (casino) was included in the bill. It is reported that negotiations have been brought to the latter, but online casinos have argued that the bills of the bill have no sufficient evidence to regulate online casinos.

Senator, opposing the working conditions of online casinos, asked the Senator Venetiano Vital Drag to postpone voting. Opponents have been claiming that the bill 3. 626/23 has been revised more than 100 since the transfer from Congress to the Senate in September for the deliberation of the federal government.

4. The third quarter of 2023: Rival company increases gross profit in the third quarter of 90%

Rival profit is 8, 7 million Canada dollars (£ 5 million).~This increased 22 % yea r-o n-year, up 90 % to $ 4, 0 million (£ 2, 4 million).~It was 2 million pounds, 4 million pounds).

Gambling handling is also growing, and 70. 3 million Canadian dollars in the third quarter of 2022 (~150, 7 million Canadian dollars from 10, 000 Canadian dollars)~62, 3 million pounds (3 million pounds), 50 % increased from last year. Rival pointed out that about half of the betting income is from the rival's casino section. Rival company said in a press release, "The recent release of casino products will create a foundation for further growth and the increase in the share of player portfolios."

The Canadian sports book emphasized that buyers KPIs are the best in the entire company. The company announced that it will hold a virtual investor day on January 17, 2024.

Unconsciously 56 million Canada dollars (~Despite being 3, 2 pounds, it is certain that they will be in the black in the first half of 2024. Earlier, this month, the company invested a 14 million Canadian dollar (£ 8, 1 million).~Invested by £ 81 million).

5. The 3rd quarter of 2023: The Kindred Group has been injured from a drop of 13 % of the profit from sports charges.

The Kind Red Group talked about £ 283 and 9 million in the third quarter of 2023 about 2 % of the year.

Relaxing gaming operators, except for the B2B business, increased by 1 % to £ 274 million.

Basi c-EbitDa indicators rose to the basic margin EBITDA 15 % to £ 42 and 6 million, but the profits from taxes down to £ 12 to 68 %. The number of intensive purchasers in the third quarter increases 7 % 1.

Kindred Group 3rd quarter: Breakdown by region

Western Europe was 62%of the group, up 12%to £ 249. 7 million.

However, Belgium had a significant impact on relief due to measures to enhance gambling safety and deposit restrictions, and fell 25 %.

In the Northern European countries, Norwegian increased by 1%offers a 14%decrease in Sweden, and earnings fell by 17%to £ 65. 3 million.

6. Prime Minister Malta defends the bill 55 at a meeting with Austria

Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abel defended a contradictory law about gambling, for example, a bill 55, in a meeting with Austrian Prime Minister Charles Nehammer.

At a meeting with Prime Minister Nehammer (photo), Prime Minister Abel said that businesses with the consent of the neighborhood are still protected from "irrational legal issues."

According to his sentence, the purpose of the bill is not a gambling company in the case of law violations, but a more "protection from procedures that do not respect the European principles in the free market."

In fact, he added that the value of the government is being considered to ensure Malta's "completeness and strength" of Malta's judicial rights in the gambling field.

7. Mr. Adelson carries Sands for $ 2 billio n-Promote some acquisitions of 9th Dallas Marvelix

Miriam Atlenson, a widow of Las Vegas Sands's founder Sheldon Aderson, to promote the purchase of Dallas Marverick's dominance package in real time (1 pound (£ 1 pound) (£ 1 pound) The company is promoting the company that requires = about 570 billion yen / 1 euro = about 820 billion yen).

Resale accounts for less than 10 % of Sands Aderson's total ratio. The cost of closing the conventional promotion sands on November 2 7-41 186 161 Promotion is implemented at $ 48 and 56.

In real time, the Adelson family has 427 894 129 Sands promotion, which indicates 56, 4 % of the company. For implementation, this indicator is reduced to 46, 0 %, but the Adideson family saves promotion control bundles.

Sales are linked to 6. 480. The 883 promotion is owned directly to Adeleson and is owned by Miriam Adideson to trust the 34 705 279 promotion. Adelison saves 386 707 968 ​​Sands-Promotion, but trusts the entire personal bundle during the arrangement.

8. The regulator will wait and the NC online sports station will actually miss the super cup

North Carolina's regulatory authorities continue to promote the process of developing rules, but the start date of NC online sports inquiries is still undefined.

At a meeting of the North Calorin Lottery Committee on Wednesday, when the sports N C-rate order was approved, Ripleland said that it was a very large amount of work to run to launch a superball bet. Earlier this month, regulatory authorities stated that they would not be ready to start on January 8-the first day under the state law.

"It's very quick to decide the start date because of instant fluctuations," Land says. "We start working potentially.

The application will be at the latest by December 27 (Monday). And it must be submitted by December 27. In accordance with the state law on sports charges, it must start until June 14.

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9. California Daily Fantasy Sports Industry, Limitability

In the future of California's daily fantasy sports, the main bazaar of DFS can be dangerous to reflect its legal status and join the growing state.

California's Prosecutor Rob Bont rates whether the state prohibits gambling from everyday fantasy sports, banning Draftkings and Fanduel games, and further researching the Prizepicks and Underdog Fantasy league. I am.

Golden, which is settled in the league of less than $ 200 million, is considered to be the most important DFS market in Japan. However, none of them go to the state where this industry is left unchecked and without tax.

California's investigation status is not classified. However, in the past year, the prosecutor has been 9 to one year from the start of the investigation to the end.

Gambling or skill game?

The first investigation, which was conducted by Gambling Compliance, is also known in October that Senator Scott Wilk (Republican Party) wrote a message that wishes for AG's actions.

10. A voting proposal opposed to sporting charges in Missouri is preparing to collect signs

Missouri's Secretary Ashcroft signed a voting wording against the legitimate tariff on sports.

According to reports, Meriro, supported by the state's professional team, is now ready to collect signatures. You must propose to voters to collect the signatures of 170. 000 people required to participate in sports gambling.

The Union submitted eight questions for voting, but the wording and components are slightly different. However, all eight types have set a 10 % tax rate for commissions and propose a Gambling Fund for $ 5 million.

In the case of encouragement, the election measures can be provided by state professional teams and 13 casino Missuri as retail, for example, sports and Internet charges.

11. Weekly in New York's mobile betting did not reach $ 530 million

The New York Gambling Committee has announced that the week of November 19, the week of mobile, sports betting, was $ 529 million and $ 55 billion.

The $ 57. 2 billion of $ 6 million, which ended on January 23, last year, remains normal, but the Empire Stat e-The Operator has gained a bet of more than $ 500 million last week last week. 2 Falled. Not only NFL, NBA, NHL, but also soccer and basketball links have been found to be a difficult period for New York bookmakers, and the total round exceeded $ 2. 5 billion in the past five months. 。

However, such an increase indicator did not lead to profits, as Sobokpus's 9 sports book had $ 40 to 7 million revenue. Up to 7, 7 %, in fact, the round of the round was more than $ 500 million, the best indicators for all three weeks.

Operator arrived on October 15, exceeding $ 40 million for the last six months, which began with a record of $ 62 million, for the last six months. The turn increased by 16, 6 % compared to the previous week, but this hold less than 2 % points led to a reduced profit of 7 or 4 %.

12. Entertaine-MGM actually told the trader that he was looking only at BETMGM

The huge MGM resort in the United States is actually composed of shareholders as a pressure from Activist Investors due to the symptoms of Jette Nigaard-AnderSen, the highest executive of the UK Group Managing Director JETTE NIGAARD-Andersen. We will not submit what we have expressed later, and do not create an offer to buy the entire entertainment company.

According to texts from the sources closest to the group, the huge casino in South America is for the remaining 50 % of the general company's promotion BETMGM in return for acquiring the entire English group. When you belong to Entain, the English group is ultimately implemented.

In January 2021, Nigar d-Andersen was appointed when Shei Segph suddenly transferred to a dazun and Entaind was in the middle of MGM resale negotiations. Just because the resale of MGM was not realized at that time does not mean that a group in South America does not arrange another proposal, but only 50 % of the promotion of the entertainment of Entein as a whole.

Since then, MGM proposal failures, continuous no n-commitment of Bet MG, recent Bet MG in the United Kingdom, and before that group in the UK competes directly with Bet MG in Ontario, BWIN and Sports International. Due to various issues, such as launching, the relationship between the two is increasingly negative. In fact, it is expected that these problems can no longer be corrected.

13. Pi n-up global is a pi n-up to its own mass gaming eco system. Add an investment

Pi n-up global international ecosystem, where companies in all sections in the gaming industry gather, have launched a new business reference entitled Pi n-Up Investment.

Pin-Up. inVestments has a financial, specialized resource, a blood-passed industry, a new market introduction ability, and an ecosystem integration, and the technology and products for adjacent sectors in the gambling market and economic economy. It was established to promote the creation of.

Pinup Investment is invested in plans and products in fields such as gambling, transportation, software development, customer service, payment system, marketing platform, ruling trading command, and artificial origin of the mind.

Investment Menz is the support of in-house ecosystem experts, practice of product tests and Pin-UP business models, acceleration of product growth, access to new markets, support strategic planning, supports strategic planning, and consolidating ecosystem. Provide possibility financing, research, and advisory opportunities.

14. DRAFTKINGS venture capital fund supports PickleBet in the $ 15 million dollar funding round

Picklebet has raised $ 15 million in the Series A Financial Procurement Round, including investment in DRAFTKINGS.

The round was led by the growing investment company Discerning Capital. Jeff Sagansky, a CEO of Manifest Investment Partners and Double Eagle Acquisition, also participated in this round. The investment was also a driv e-by draft kings, a venture capital fund investing in sports technology and entertainment companies.

In addition to Draftkings, the founder of the fund is based on venture capital General Catalyst, Accomplice, and Boston Seed Capital.

Picklebet is an Australian gambling company and offers B2C betting for sports, sports and horse racing.

The company also has Pickle Studios, a passion for sports betting and esports content.

15. Rotomatica considers resale of 500 million euros as an acquisition of SKS365

The Italian gambling company, Lotmatica Group, has announced that it will issue and sell the necessary 500 million euros to raise the SKS365 Malta Holdings of 639 million euros. The issuance consists of a 203 0-yea r-old senior floating interest rate cover bond and 7, 125 % Senior Cavadd Bond in 2028. The split will be announced after the issuance is completed.

The bonds will be issued on the maturity or maturity of SKS365 trading, which is expected to be completed in the first half of 2024. Rotomatica has made a new promise on regular loans based on existing contracts. As a result, the total amount of principal debt is 50 million euros, and the acquisition is actually a condition.

LotTomatica will operate 1. 000 sports betting sites and receive 100 % of the promotion from operators with powerful online presence in Italy. The SKS365 brands include Planetwin365 and PlanetPay365. This year's EBITDA is expected to be 74 million euros, of which almost thre e-quarters are on the Internet. Lotmatica said that the acquisition would support lon g-term growth strategies and improve the company's status in Italy.

The company is to obtain cost synergies of 60 million euros and relief synergies not exceeding at least 5 million euros by 2026. The conspiracy is still subject to antitrust and incentive regulations, but in fact is expected to be completed in the first half of 2024. Prior to this, PlayTech is already in talks to acquire the operator.

16. Entine: GGL has an obligation to resolve the German dark gambling market.

Entine PLC endorsed the results of the "Schnabl-study", which conveys a significant stay of dark market operators targeting Germany's fourth interstate bazaar (Glüneurstv).

The results of the DSWV (sports rates) and DOCV (online casinos) study, conducted by Dr. Gunther Schnebl of the Leipzig Institute, show that "around 50% of online activity in Germany takes place on illegal platforms." It is true that after joining the Glüneursstv rules on July 1, 2021, German buyers have flooded into EU unlicensed operators (28. 9%) and offshore operators (19. 9%).

Entain, which operates the German "three leaders" among the European online sports boards of Bwin, claims that the current Glüneurstv-defense measures are seen as too restrictive, pushing buyers towards the best and dark bazaars by offering real legal games.

Grain Hurst, corporate director of the Entain group, said in an interview with the German news source GamesUndbusiness. de: "Against this background, Entain calls for German gambling regulation in future to aim at protecting legal services on the market. In real time, their appeal is severely limited by normative claims, which in fact leads users to turn to black market services.

17. Danish regulator imposes two fines on unauthorized ad operators

The Danish gambling regulator Spillemyndigheden has imposed two fines totaling 100. 000 Danish kroner (11. 612 GBP) on ad online operators that do not have a license in the country.

Spillemyndigheden, according to the self-investigation register ROFUS-regulator, "in particular mentioned the websites where players had the opportunity to trade, including whether they were liquidated autonomously," said the fined-persons, whose names were not mentioned, who were in fact the owners of the two sites.

The regulator said that this is the first case in which a fine has been issued: "where direct reference was made to the way in which players registered with Rofus have every opportunity to play".

SpillemyNDighten reported to the police earlier this year because he has no right to advertise on the Denmark general on the unauthorized site.

18. Igaming Ontario is looking for a partner for building a central sel f-exclusion system

Igaming Ontario has announced a proposal request (RFP) to develop an intensive sel f-exclusion system in Canada.

The proposal request includes a solution that players can independently exclude all gambling operators regulated by Ontario as part of a single registration process. Igaming Ontario, which regulates gambling online games in the state, will launch RGP in early 2024.

The successful bidder in the bid must develop and introduce a system integrated with all operators. In addition, registration, renewal, and recovery of sel f-exclusion of players must be maintained. < SPAN> SpillemyNDIGHTEN has reported to the police earlier this year because he has no right to advertise the general public in Denmark on an unauthorized site.