SIS has exited licensing agreements with other providers of its horse racing and greyhound racing data to the online bookmaker industry, and will now be the sole supplier of core race-day data for Irish horse racing, UK horse racing from 20 courses, and UK greyhound racing.
The SIS data will no longer be available through other data suppliers, and customers will need to agree supply through SIS to continue with these key data services.
The vast majority of the online betting market currently receive horse racing and greyhound racing core race day data through SIS or through contracted data distributors where licensing agreements have previously been in place.
Paul Witten, commercial director of SIS said: “This is a significant step forward for SIS, enabling more direct interactions with end customers and opening the door for new and exciting services.
“In order to facilitate the initiative, our commercial and technical teams are geared up and ready to initiate the new commercial agreements and the required feed integrations.
"We are in discussions with other data providers to agree transitional arrangements to ensure that we minimise the impact of these changes on affected customers, and that all customers can safely and effectively migrate over to the new services”.
