Gala Coral has announced that former bwin.party man Per Widerström will be joining its band of merry-men. Widerström departed Pwin back in August after he’d served PartyGaming from early 2010. He was then made chief integration officer and group game director after the Pwin merger in April. According to eGR, he took up role as managing director of Gala Interactive earlier this month. His role covers Gala’s online Bingo and Casino brands and will see him moving to Gibraltar along with the rest of the firm’s iGaming operations.
GigaMedia has added two new members to its board with appointment of Dirk Chen and Casey Tung. Both men join the firm immediately and it’s hoped their extensive business backgrounds will help to get them out of the small rut they find themselves in. Revenues fell in the last quarter and much of it was down to “low levels of customers activity.”
Spread-betting specialists IG Group are buoyant ahead of the announcing their first-half results. The company expects revenue to rise 23% with “trading volumes lifted by market volatility.” The figure is projected to hit £193million with costs reportedly in line with expectations.