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● “Not another ‘shock’ result at Playtech,” says Alistair Osborne in The Times. “How many more can chairman Brian Mattingley deliver?” In February, a mysterious group of Hong Kong investors voted down the £1.2bn takeover that he’d agreed between the UK gambling-software firm and

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