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Tag Archives: Managing Director
VIDEO — BetFair’s Mark Davies croaks like a frog.
- To watch Mark Davies speaking French: Internet Explorer —no FireFox. Latest Flash. Go to M6 Replay. Select “magazines”. Scroll on the right to go to “Enquete Exclusive”. Select Sunday, May 1, 2008 — Paris sportifs: Quand la Mafia s’en … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Ethics, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged BetFair, BetFair HQ, CEO, David Yu, Directeur General, French TV, Internet Explorer, M6, Managing Director, Mark Davies, MicroSoft Windows, Paris, prediction markets, TV
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Towards an anti-drugs and anti-corruption body for all sports? — BetFair’s proposal…
Play The Game [I like that website title ]: Betting industry leader calls for sport world anti-corruption agency 8 April 2008 by Michael Herborn Mark Davies, managing director of global betting giant Betfair, has called for a world anti-corruption agency … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Regulations, Sports
Tagged Analysis (Data) - Sports / Politics Corruption, anti-corruption agency, Auckland, BetFair, drugs, Managing Director, Mark Davies, Michael Herborn, New Zealand, pharmaceutical corruption, prediction markets, Sport, Sports, Sportsman, Star Times, WADA, World Anti-Doping Agency
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TradeFair Binaries is clearly the major, and TradeFair Spreads is the minor.
BetFair-TradeFair press release (2007-12-03): Betfair enters financial markets with Tradefair launch Tradefair to provide a revolutionary new retail binaries exchange Betfair, the world’s leading online betting exchange has announced the formation of an exciting new business, Tradefair. Established to provide … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Finance
Tagged BetFair, central bank decisions, CEO, David Jack, David Yu, Ed Warner, Exchange, exchange technology, financial products, financial spread betting product, financial trading products, IFX Markets, Managing Director, Martyn Holman, prediction markets, retail binaries, retail market, sports betting market, TradeFair, Trader, United Kingdom
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TradeFair’s David Jack = the $20 million man
Hidden this morning deep into The Sunday Times: Betfair, the online sports-betting firm, has invested £10m to launch Tradefair, a new subsidiary company specialising in bets on the financial markets. It believes that the market for financial betting could exceed … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Betting, Business, Exchanges & Markets, Finance
Tagged BetFair, David Jack, David Pennock, EUR, GBP, Hidden, Managing Director, online sports-betting, prediction markets, TradeFair, United Kingdom, USD
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Alas, TradeFair managing director confirms that they will float financial event derivatives, only.
David Jack has just published a blog post on Midas Oracle, and here’s one short excerpt: Take a look at Betfair today – it has some of the most liquid, volatile and high participation prediction markets in the world. Participation … Continue reading
BetFair traders discuss TradeFair’s 0-100 trading interface.
And conclude that that’s the way to go!!!!! – (page 2): BinarySoft Chris 27 Nov 10:38 I won’t be one of the initial MMers nope, but I may well do it at some point next year, depending on the spreads … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Market Trading, Software
Tagged API, BetFair, Managing Director, prediction markets, TF, TradeFair, USD
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GUARDIAN BLOGGER: BETFAIR SPIN-DOCTOR DOES NOT SAY THE TRUTH ABOUT SPORTS CORRUPTION.
Lawrence Donegan: Odds-on liquidity showing interest in Scottish youth Can it really be more than a month since Betfair’s Mark Davies appeared in print to reject the suggestion that the gambling boom is in any way responsible for the apparent … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Betting, Ethics, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged Analysis (Data) - Sports / Politics Corruption, BetFair, Edward Gibbon, football, Lawrence Donegan, Managing Director, Mark Davies, prediction markets, Scotland, spokesman, Sports, tennis, the Daily Record, the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian
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If the British legal betting companies offer bets on the sport, it is because there is demand for bets on the sport —and if that demand were not offered in a regulated environment, it would be filled in an unregulated one (like what we see with TradeSports-InTrade and MatchBook in the US market).
Mark Davies of BetFair (PDF file): International Leaders in Sport conference, Auckland, New Zealand. April 3-4th 2008. Keynote speech, April 4th. Mark Davies, Betfair. “New Understandings in Sports Betting” Minister, ladies and gentlemen… Thank you very much for your kind … Continue reading →