Welcome to the Weekend Report, where iGB looks at the news that you may have missed over Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This week, DraftKings agrees to pay $200,000 over disclosure violations, former British deputy PM speaks to the regulator about election betting probe and Stella David takes the helm at Entain.
DraftKings faces $200,000 penalty
First this week, DraftKings has agreed to pay a $200,000 (£149,251/€178,756) penalty for selectively disclosing certain material non-public information on social media accounts, instead of all investors.
In July last year, DraftKings’ public relations company published posts on LinkedIn and X, formerly Twitter, about “strong growth”. This was despite DraftKings having not released its Q2 2023 financial results. DraftKings asked for the posts to be removed but did not distribute information to investors for another week.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission hit out at DraftKings. It said such information must be made available to all inves..
