The Danish Gambling Authority, Spillemyndigheden, has released its latest gambling data report showing that overall gross gaming revenue (GGR) across the country’s four main markets came to kr513 million (€68.8 million) in the month of July.
GGR for the first six months of 2023 totaled kr3.4 billion (€460.8 million)
The latest figures mean that GGR for the first half of 2023 across sports betting, gaming machines, online casinos, and land-based casinos came to kr3.4 billion (€460.8 million), an increase of 5.17% compared to the same period in 2022.
According to the report, combined sports betting GGR for the month of July was kr154 million (€20.6 million) bringing the year-to-date total to kr1.16 billion (€156.8 million), a jump of 3.2% year-on-year. June’s figure also marked a drop of 26.3% from the kr209 million (€28 million) reported in the previous month. However, June is traditionally a slower month for sports betting following the end of the football season.
Online casinos reported combined GGR kr238 million (€31.9 million) for the month of June, an 8.1% increase from June 2022. This brings the year-to-date total for online casino GGR to kr1.49 billion (€200.6 million) representing a 5.9% increase on the same period in 2022.
Gaming machine operators reported GGR of kr91 million (€12.2 million) during the month of June, a 9% drop year-on-year. However, for the first half of 2023, gaming machine GGR came to kr596 million (€79.9 million), an increase of 6.4% from the same period in 2022.
The land-based casino sector reported GGR of kr30 million (€4 million) for June, roughly the same amount reported in the June of 2022. The first six months of 2023 saw casino GGR grow by 8.7% year-on-year to kr175 million (€23.5 million).
Regulator announces match-fixing monitoring partnerships
The Danish regulator also announced new partnership deals with three companies to help in its fight against match-fixing. The three companies are:
Sportradar Integrity Service
United Lotteries for Integrity in Sport (ULIS)
International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA)
The companies will monitor betting activity mainly in Danish betting markets and report suspicious betting patterns directly to Spillemyndigheden and gambling operators.
Speaking of the new partnerships Anders Dorph, director of the regulator said:
“We are very happy about the three cooperation agreements. It will significantly strengthen our efforts against match-fixing that we now receive the alerts directly. Combined with the large amounts of data we ourselves have, in the long run it can make our work even more efficient. We will be able to react very quickly and help stop behavior that threatens the integrity of the sport.”
Any alerts relating to suspicious activity received by the regulator will be assessed internally before being forwarded to the police or related sporting leagues if required.
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