Entain launches legal battle over services used by bonus hunters and arbitrage bettors. Kate Marshal 11 September 2026 British gambling group Entain is taking legal action against Liquidity Trading, a company that operates services for professional bettors. These platforms help users find bookmaker bonuses, compare odds across different operators and use betting strategies. The services include Outplayed, OddsMonkey, Team Profit and Team Casino. Entain claims that Liquidity Trading used logos and branding elements belonging to the group's brands, including Ladbrokes, Coral, bwin, Sportingbet and other projects, without permission. The company is also challenging the business model of such platforms, particularly those targeting bonus hunters, arbitrage bettors and value bettors. These users search for attractive bookmaker bonuses, compare odds between operators and exploit pricing errors in betting markets to identify overvalued odds. The High Court of England and Wales has removed Entain's copyright infringement claims from the case after ruling that the company failed to provide sufficient details to support its allegations. In particular, Entain did not specify who owns the rights to the logos, who created them or which exact branding elements are protected by copyright. The court noted that ownership of a brand does not automatically grant copyright protection over its logo. Entain must prove that it owns the rights to the images and demonstrate that the design elements meet the requirements for copyright protection. The dispute between the parties will continue. Entain has been given the opportunity to amend its claims and submit additional evidence. Other allegations, including those related to trademark use, may be considered at a later stage. Kate Marshal | Journalist Bookmaker & Casino Reviewer | Former Professional Croupier | Industry Rankings & Insights | Since 2014.

Free-to-play game among BetMGM upgrades for NFL season. Operator reveals enhancements ahead of the opening game. September 10, 2026 A new Ultimate Teams free-to-play game is among the updated sportsbook lineup from BetMGM ahead of the NFL season. Ultimate Teams sees players awarded daily cards if they log in every weekday, with a share of a weekly US$50,000 Bonus Bets jackpot also available. The MGM Resorts and Entain joint venture operator also revealed Legendary Thursdays, with bonuses and odds tied to matches on Thursdays to create a "new weekly destination at the start of every football weekend." BetMGM's NFL sports betting lineup reveal comes after Fanatics confirmed it has integrated its FanCash currency into its Fanatics Markets prediction markets platform. BetMGM reveals sportsbook updates. Elsewhere, BetMGM has introduced BetDefense, offering to give players their player prop stake back if their selected player is injured in the first quarter. Odds Flash will provide push notifications when odds move on college and professional American football change. Football-themed casino games will provide a cross-sell element through 20 team-branded games and live dealer offerings. Behind the scenes, BetMGM said its platform now boasts faster load times, smoother navigation and "improved responsiveness." The operator's new sports betting offering comes after BetMGM announced it is rethinking its 2027 EBITDA target due to the impact of the rise of prediction markets.

Compliance Jobs Report: sept. 4. Another brisk Compliance Jobs Report as Radical Compliance head into the Labor Day Weekend! Radical Compliance has new hires at Bristow Group, Ulta Beauty, Morgan Stanley, ABB, and elsewhere; and unfortunately some cutbacks at Uber and Entain. Lots of promotions too, and job leads in market research, higher education, and pharmaceuticals. Radical Compliance gather the Jobs Report news items from LinkedIn, press releases, and wherever else Radical Compliance can find tips - and thank you to everyone who sends them in, you make the Jobs Report possible! If you have any gossip to share (even confidentially) email me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn. Compliance Jobs. This week Radical Compliance begin with the Bristow Group, which provides helicopter and other aviation services to the oil & gas industry; it just hired Daniel Elustondo as chief compliance officer. Elustondo joins the Houston-based company after seven years at Shell, where he had been senior legal counsel in the regulatory group. Next is an update on Melissa Clawson, who announced last week that she was stepping down as chief audit executive at restaurant chain Wendy's. Clawson has glammed up with a new gig at Ulta Beauty, where she will be chief audit executive. Envista Holdings Corp., a maker of dental equipment, has hired Matt Silverman as senior director of global trade compliance. Silverman was last seen at Caterpillar, where he was assistant general counsel of compliance until last year. Silverman also does a fair bit of writing and speaking about trade compliance, which probably keeps him quite busy these days. Rebekah Mihm has a new job as head of legal operations, ethics, and ESG at UFP Technologies, a maker of sterile packaging and other medical equipment. Mihm comes to UFP from Harman International, where she had been director of corporate sustainability and ESG until this past spring. Looks like a few folks have been exiting British betting business Entain lately. Karen Nightingale has stepped down as group director of ethics and compliance, a role she held at Entain since 2023. Anandee Chowdhury also separated from the company the other week after two years there; she had been a group ethics and compliance associate. (If anyone wants to leak any other news of Entain restructurings, you can always reach me at [email protected].) James Martinelli has turned up at Morgan Stanley, as an executive director on the Wall Street giant's financial crimes compliance team. Martinelli comes to Morgan Stanley from FinCEN, the U.S. anti-money laundering regulator, where he had been associate director of regulatory and strategic affairs. Aveanna Healthcare has hired Kristi Cuffe as a compliance manager, working from Tampa, Fla. Cuffe joins the Atlanta-based Aveanna after six years at Family First Homecare, most recently as a compliance specialist. Orba Capital, an asset management firm based in New York, has hired Colleen Kilfoyle as chief compliance officer. Kilfoyle comes to Orba after 11 years at Sculptor Capital Management, the last two of them as chief compliance officer. Sumanta Datta has left his job as global head of compliance for analytics firm Wood Mackenzie to join Petroleum Development Oman as a compliance executive. ABB has hired Angel Corbacho as lead investigator for the EMEA region. Corbacho previously worked at cybersecurity firm Cloudflare as senior counsel for legal compliance; he's based in Portugal. Wellspace Health has hired Daniel Goulart as compliance program specialist. Goulart comes to the California-based company after 10 years at Sutter Health, most recently as a privacy and information security consultant. Dana Cook just landed at Boeing Corp. as a senior manager in compliance risk management. Cook comes to Boeing after three years at McKinsey as a "manager of compliance capabilities," but Cook had worked at Boeing for nearly a decade before that in various compliance roles. M&T Bank in Buffalo, N.Y., has hired Victoria Komjathy as a senior specialist in AI governance. Komjathy joins the bank from Capital One, where she had been a senior risk manager since 2024. IBM subsidiary Confluent has hired Marina Kaganovich as global head of product regulatory compliance. Kaganovich comes to Confluent (a cloud services business) from Google, where she had worked in trust and compliance in the office of the CISO there. In Italy, Annette Amato has left Johnson & Johnson, where she had worked on assessment and consulting projects in healthcare compliance; to join orthopedics manufacturer DePuy Synthes as manager of compliance policies, training, and communication. Deepti Bhandari has joined Otis Elevator as director of ethics and compliance for the company's Asia-Pacific region. Bhandari comes to Otis from Abbott, where she had been head of the company's ethics and compliance office in Asia. Jennifer Scalise-Mullett has a new gig at Turbett Surgical, a small medical manufacturing business in upstate New York, as vice president of quality, regulatory, and compliance. Scalise-Mullett was last seen at Boston Pharmaceuticals as vice president of compliance until the end of 2025, when the company was acquired by GSK. Raytheon has hired Jen Zrilska as a compliance manager. Zrilska joins the defense contractor from Dow Jones, where she had been head of due diligence for the Americas region. Andrzej Bełza has been hired at Coloplast as a global trade and sanctions compliance manager, working from the company's offices in Poland. Bełza previously spent five years at Radiometer, where he had been a global trade compliance specialist. The Orix Group, a Japanese financial services conglomerate, has hired Junyeon Park as compliance counsel and global investigations lead. Park comes to Orix from the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, where she had been counsel for several years. And incidentally, you may have seen news that Uber is cutting 3,000 jobs, or about 10 percent of its global workforce. I've noticed a small but steady stream of risk, compliance, and audit professionals at Uber subsequently announcing on LinkedIn that they've lost their jobs. If your organization is hiring or you can otherwise help out these folks, they're out there. Moving up the ladder. Mastercard has promoted Howard Fields from group head of AML, export control, and sanctions compliance to executive vice president of risk and compliance enterprise solutions. Tanya Rines has moved into a new role at Eli Lilly & Co., going from associate director of global ethics and compliance to associate director of trade sanctions compliance. Option Care Health in Chicago has promoted Ian O'Brien from senior director of compliance for business partners to vice president of the same. Cora Colvin has a new role within the Cencora corporate empire as chief compliance officer at Retina Consultants of America, recently acquired by Cencora. Previously Colvin had been a group compliance officer at Cencora. Brooke Nelson has a new role within Sanofi, as head of ethics and business integrity for global operations. Nelson had previously been vice president of ethics and business integrity for Sanofi's North America operations. She has also relocated from Boston to Paris! Ikea has promoted Michelle Ackerman from senior manager of third-party risk and compliance to operational risk management and compliance manager. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has promoted Tristan Lemelle from acting investigations manager to head of investigations. Construction equipment manufacturer CNH has promoted Sarochinee Klinhorm from Asia-Pacific regional head of compliance to regional head of compliance and data protection officer. Shepherd Insurance has promoted Kylie Fields from compliance manager to director of compliance. Brittany Foglia has moved up at U.S. Renal Care from divisional compliance officer to senior divisional compliance officer. And German logistics giant Kuehne+Nagel has promoted Alissa Carneiro from customs and authorizations expert to national customs compliance manager. Vendors & service providers. Joe Hill has left his job at Honeywell as general counsel for trade sanctions and AML compliance, to take up with FTI Consulting as a managing director (presumably advising on the same issues). Open req orders. Ionis Pharmaceuticals is looking for a vice president of compliance. Job is based in Carlsbad, Calif. (just outside San Diego) or can be remote for the right candidate. Salary range is listed at $280,000 to $350,000. Market research firm Circana has two early-career compliance roles open! First is a policy and training analyst job, salary range listed at $90,000 to $105,000. Second is a sustainability analyst job, salary range $85,000 to $100,000. Both jobs can be remote for the right candidate. Dartmouth College is seeking a chief compliance officer. Job is based in Hanover, N.H.; salary range not provided! #NotCool Compliance meme of the week. That's all for this week's report. As always, if you have a tip or want to brag about your new job, promotion, career milestone, or anything else, email me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn. I'm always happy to give credit to the many hard-working people here in its corner of the business universe. Posted in News