Chartwell powered Extrabet became the first Gambling Commission (UK) licensed casino of UK. Extrabet is an owned subsidiary of IG Group Holding plc, a FTSE 250 company that has operations world over and has a revenue inflow of more than $200 million.

IG Index plc is currently the topmost financial spread betting company in the world. The company offers clients opportunities to speculate on a wide range of financial instruments, sports, entertainment and various global events. Extrabet is to become the launchpad and marketing agent of the IG Sport Casino. Chartwell’s gaming system recently had a complete certification process making sure that it fulfils or exceeds the gaming requirements for gaming regulations all around the world. This has also assisted in completion of IG Index’s requirements.

President and CEO of Chartwell, Darold H. Parken declared the event to be a real milestone for IG Group, Chartwell and online gaming regulations as a whole. He also expressed his happiness on the fact that his company was able to deliver the software for UK’s first licensed online gaming site and congratulated every member in the team. He also extended his compliments to IG Group for their pursuit of growth built on technology in a regulatory framework.

Head of IG Group, Stuart Lane expressed delight for being able to add Chartwell’s casino on their online sports betting portfolio. He also said that they were one step closer to achieving their goal of putting everything on one betting site as per the requirements of IG and Extrabet customers.