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MUSL Board and Powerball Product Group Officers Elected for FY21
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Maryland Casinos Reopen with Social Distancing, Safety Protocols in Place
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July 6, 2020
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Sarah Taylor, executive director of the Hoosier Lottery, will be the 31st MUSL board president and the first-ever to serve from the Hoosier Lottery
INDIANAPOLIS (July 6, 2020) - The Board of Directors of the Multi-State Lottery Association elected Sarah Monnett Taylor, Executive Directo…
Jumbo Interactive (ASX:JIN) extends agreement with Tabcorp (ASX:TAB)
Digital lottery company Jumbo Interactive (JIN) has extended its 15-year relationship with Tabcorp (TAB) for a further 10 years
This ext…
IGT Raises the Bar with Launch of PeakBarTop Cabinet
Gaming venues in California and Nevada welcomed back players with IGT's next-generation bartop cabinet and its high-performing video poker…
Mike Purcell, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Kentucky Lottery
Mike Purcell, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Kentucky Lottery
How will the world be different when we come out of this cris…
EL (European Lottery Association) Publishes 2019 Annual Report
EL PUBLISHES 2019 ANNUAL REPORT
30 JUN 2020 |
ASSOCIATION
At the time of writing the 2019 Annual Report, the world faced the p…
IGT Streamlines Business and Leadership Under New Organizational Structure
IGT Streamlines Business and Leadership Under New Organizational Structure
- Aligns with the Company's strategic focus
- Provides a si…
IGT PlayDigital, PlayRGS Solution, and PlayCasino Content Advance Digital Gaming for Svenska Spel Sport & Casino in Sweden
IGT PlayDigital, PlayRGS Solution, and PlayCasino Content Advance Digital Gaming for Svenska Spel Sport & Casino in Sweden
LOND…
Caesars Entertainment and Scientific Games Extend Sports Betting and iGaming Partnership
Caesars Entertainment and Scientific Games Extend Sports Betting and iGaming Partnership
Partners extend agreement as they launch digital…
Camelot Lottery Solutions and Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Agree Two-year Contract Extension
Camelot Lottery Solutions and Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Agree Two-year Contract Extension Agreement will see CLS continue to provid…
Kambi Group plc enters partnership with Four Winds Casinos
Kambi Group plc enters partnership with Four Winds Casinos
Global sports betting supplier to provide its technology and services to the…
Eileen Moore Johnson Joins Scientific Games as Chief Human Resources Officer
LAS VEGAS, June 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) ("Scientific Games" or the "Company") announced that E…
Tennessee sports betting director leaves for job with gambling company
The director of Tennessee's new online-only sports betting program has left the post before Tennessee's first bets were placed.
Tennessee…
Maxwell Goldstein, Vice President Sales – Americas, Carmanah Signs
Maxwell Goldstein, Vice President Sales – Americas, Carmanah Signs
At this point in time it is difficult to predict the long-term impacts…
Brad Cummings, Founder & CEO, EquiLottery Games
Brad Cummings, Founder & CEO, EquiLottery Games
As a company that supplies lottery games based on live sporting events, EquiLottery Ga…
Simon Butler, Chief Executive Officer, Abacus Solutions International Group
Simon Butler, Chief Executive Officer, Abacus Solutions International Group
Consumers will be even more digitally disposed, and credit deb…
GLMS launches Operational Hub on the American Continent
GLMS launches Operational Hub on the American Continent Lausanne, June 23, 2020, The President of the Global Lottery Monitoring System (GL…
Lobbyist Jack Abramoff And CEO Rowland Marcus Andrade Charged With Fraud In Connection With $5 Million Initial Coin Offering Of Cryptocurrency AML Bitcoin
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Amid layoffs, Atlantic lottery head says $100M in business lost to offshore gambling sites
The Atlantic Lottery Corporation is shifting its focus to a digital platform to try to prevent revenue from going to unregulated offshore…
Kentucky Lottery Sales rebound help get the KLC back on track to meet budgeted sales amounts for the year
LOTTERY SEES REBOUND, SOLID SALES MONTHS In today's meeting of the Kentucky Lottery Corporation's board of directors, it was announced str…
Oklahoma Supreme Court to Begin Review of Tribal Gaming Compacts, Sports Betting
The Oklahoma Supreme Court is scheduled this week to begin deliberating whether Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) had the legal authority to grant two N…
Merger of casino giants wins Federal Trade Commission approval
The Federal Trade Commission has given its blessing to a $17.3 billion merger of two casino giants that will bring five of Indiana's 13 sta…
Nevada Gaming Commission Approves ‘First Step’ To Expand Cashless Wagering at Casinos
The Nevada Gaming Commission Thursday backed several rule changes to encourage use of cashless wagering systems at the state’s gaming prope…
Solidarity, community and alliance: Embodying a new culture of sports integrity
Lausanne/Brussels, 26 June 2020 – Lottery executives and professionals from the sports movement came together this week via a series of…
Pennsylvania lawmakers wrestle anew with major gambling bill
Legislation would allow slot machine-like terminals in thousands of bars, restaurants, nonprofit social clubs and other businesses that hol…
Danish regulator adds igaming and betting technical requirements
The Danish Gambling Authority Spillemyndigheden has detailed a raft of new technical requirement which are applicable to all operators offe…
AGLC (Alberta Gaming & Liquor Commission) has entered into an agreement with NeoPollard Interactive to build and maintain Alberta’s legal online gambling platform
The online platform will provide a secure, age-controlled environment that promotes healthy gambling behaviour and fully integrates AGLC’s…
Peter Christensen has been appointed by the Minister of Finance as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of Danske Spil
Peter Christensen has been appointed by the Minister of Finance as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of Danske Spil.
In addition…
Philippe Vlaemminck, Managing Partner, Pharumlegal, Legal Counsel to Lotteries
Philippe Vlaemminck, Managing Partner, Pharumlegal, Legal Counsel to Lotteries
LOTTERIES LEADERSHIP: COOPERATING TO REBUILD OUR SOCIETIES…
Florida Lottery Reaches Sales Goal for Fiscal Year 2019-2
The Florida Lottery has officially reached its sales goal of $7.26 billion for fiscal year 2019-20, surpassing last year’s sales by more th…
GLMS launches Operational Hub at the Loto Quebec premises in Montreal - Canada
GLMS LAUNCHES OPERATIONAL HUB ON THE AMERICAN CONTINENT
Lausanne, 23 June 2020 . The President of the Global Lottery Monitoring System (G…
International Game Technology PLC Announces Early Results And Increase Of Its Capped Tender Offer With Respect To Its 6.250% Senior Secured Notes Due 2022 And Completion Of Sale Of $750,000,000 5.25% Senior Secured Notes Due 2029
LONDON, June 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC (NYSE:IGT) ("IGT"), announces the results to date with resp…
INTRALOT Powers Taiwan Sports Lottery Corporation with new CMS Solution and eSports Games
INTRALOT’s Canvas, the advanced content management system, together with an enriched sportsbook of new eSports games level up the betting e…
Doug Pollard, Co-CEO, Pollard Banknote
Doug Pollard, Co-CEO, Pollard Banknote
Covid-19 highlights the importance of digital one-to-one engagement with players - PGRI
In a worl…
Bill Breslo, President, Diamond Game
Bill Breslo, President, Diamond Game
The trend toward self-service and self-checkout is likely to accelerate, which could hamper lottery t…
Teresa Immel, Senior Director Sales & Marketing, Schafer Systems
Teresa Immel, Senior Director Sales & Marketing, Schafer Systems
Lottery industry vendors have seen an immediate impact as a result of…
FDJ: Combined General Meeting of 18 June 2020
06/18/2020 | 12:01pm EDT
Regulatory News:
The Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting of FDJ (Paris:FDJ) met behind closed…
La Française des Jeux : French lottery group FDJ says lockdown knocked 100 million euros off earnings
Regulatory News:
FDJ: Combined General Meeting of 18 June 2020
June 18, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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UK: Camelot gets six month National Lottery extension
Camelot, the games business, is to get a six-month extension to run the National Lottery, as regulators press pause on an auction to run th…
Mississippi Lottery Corporation makes another transfer to the state
JACKSON, MISS--Today, the Mississippi Lottery Corporation (MLC) completed its May transfer of $12,728,965.17 in net proceeds to the Lotte…
G2E Las Vegas: Mammoth Gaming Expo Will Be Held in October, Say Organizers
G2E Las Vegas: Mammoth Gaming Expo Will Be Held in October, Say Organizers
G2E Las Vegas will go ahead this year, despite the threat of…
Pennsylvania Reports Strong iGaming Growth in May as Online Slots Top $1B in Wagers
Pennsylvania’s growing online gaming industry hasn’t completely filled the void of left by the closure of brick-and-mortar casinos, but mob…
Nevada gamblers now required to wear masks at table games that have no barriers
LAS VEGAS – Nevada gamblers are now required to wear face masks at table games that have no barriers, reported the Reno Gazette Journal, a…
Listen: Details On BetRivers Sports Gambling App
Mobile sports betting launched in Illinois on Thursday
670 The Score) Illinois officially opened mobile sports betting in the state Thursd…
UKGC Advises Operators Must Adhere To Safe Gambling Standards
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has advised the general public that operators must adhere to the safer gambling standards when consumers…
Gambling Site DraftKings To Sell More Shares In $1.6B IPO
While questions linger over the 2020 sports season, that hasn’t stopped DraftKings from upping its previously announced initial public offe…
Senate panel votes to legalize sports betting in Georgia
A Senate panel voted Friday to resurrect a proposal that would allow mobile sports betting in Georgia.
The Senate Special Judiciary Commit…
NASCAR, Belmont Stakes Headline The Weekend’s Massive Sports Betting Slate
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Arkansas sticking with its lottery consultant, Camelot Global Services - a keno game, iLottery considered
The Legislative Council on Friday signed off on a second-year contract extension for consultant Camelot Global Services, a day after the st…
Mississippi Gaming Commission Meeting Report
Friday, June 19, 2020
June 18 Meeting
The Mississippi Gaming Commission held its regular monthly meeting on…
America’s Casinos are Calling on State Gaming Regulators to Allow Cashless Payments
To reduce the risk of further COVID-19 transmission, state gaming regulators to contemplate letting operators accept more cashless payments…
Revolutionary New Casino and Sports Betting Laws Create Prime Opportunities for Virginia Gaming Industry
The gaming industry may be focused elsewhere due to the pandemic closing, but in the midst of the recovery, the newest entrant to legalized…
How to help shore up California's virus-ravaged budget? Legalize sports betting, these lawmakers say
With the state of California staring down a $54 billion budget deficit directly attributable to the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent…
What sports betting could look like in California if legalized in fall
Sports gambling could be coming to California in the near future.
While 22 states have legalized sports gambling since the Supreme Court's…
China: Authorities in the city of Xiamen announced the arrests of 146 individuals suspected of providing payment processing for internationally based gambling sites
China’s anti-online gambling campaign has taken down a major ‘fourth party’ payment processor facilitating cross-border payments with i…
Virginia Lottery Online Games Commence July 1, Will Provide Relief as Sales Diminish
The Virginia Lottery will begin offering online games beginning July 1. It comes at a most critical time, as the lottery has seen its reven…
After threatening to criminalize virtually the entire online gambling industry two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice told the First Circuit that it didn’t really mean it and that the judges shouldn’t get involved in the issue
BOSTON (CN) — After threatening to criminalize virtually the entire online gambling industry two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice…
Illinois Becomes 11th State To Offer Online Sports Betting As BetRivers Opens For Business
Illinois Becomes 11th State To Offer Online Sports Betting As BetRivers Opens For Business
SPRINGFIELD, IL - MAY 05: The Illinois State Ca…
Blackhawk, Pollard Banknote Team On Instant Purchase Lottery Tickets
Global payments provider Blackhawk will now work with lottery expert Pollard Banknote in order to let customers buy lottery tickets instant…
Nominations for the annual Arch L. Gleason Award for Responsible Gambling Leadership now are being accepted
Media Advisory For Immediate Release: June 20, 2020 NOTE TO EDITORS: Please contact KYCPG Executive Director Mike Stone for further informa…
NH Lottery, Interstate Poker Compacts Get Reprieve From Controversial DOJ Opinion
A decision on whether to maintain a controversial reversal by the U.S. Department of Justice of an interpretation of the Wire Act of 1961 m…
Scientific Games Powers Sports Betting for Betfred in Colorado
Scientific Games Powers Sports Betting for Betfred in Colorado Latest development follows already announced Pennsylvania partnership wit…
Camelot launches new National Lottery ad campaign to let nation know that it still could be them
‘IT COULD BE YOU’ – NEW NATIONAL LOTTERY AD CAMPAIGN FROM CAMELOT LETS NATION KNOW THAT IT STILL COULD BE THEM
NEW CAMPAIGN REIMAGINES ICO…
Thermal Imaging Cameras Among New Safety Measures At Maryland Live! Casino & Hotel
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Gov. Larry Hogan’s order last week allows for casinos to reopen under new safety guidelines and capacity limits.
Tuesday…
Scientific Games Announces Pricing of an Upsized Private Offering of $550.0 Million of Senior Unsecured Notes
Scientific Games Announces Pricing of an Upsized Private Offering of $550.0 Million of Senior Unsecured Notes
LAS VEGAS, June 17…
INTRALOT introduces Lotos Xi
The powerful solution meets the needs of Digital Lotteries to drive innovation and provide a unified player experience.
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Virginia Lottery Names Deputy Director for Expanded Gaming
Virginia Lottery Names Deputy Director for Expanded Gaming
~ Also Names Deputy General Counsel ~
The Virginia Lottery, which assumes ne…
Scientific Games Announces Proposed Private Offering of $350.0 Million of Senior Unsecured Notes
Scientific Games Announces Proposed Private Offering of $350.0 Million of Senior Unsecured Notes
LAS VEGAS, June 17, 2020 /PRNews…
BCLC Launches Scientific Games Sports Trading Service
BCLC Launches Scientific Games Sports Trading Service
BCLC’s PlayNow.com sports betting offering strengthened with OpenTrade
LAS VEGAS…
Lawmaker thinks Ohio could raise more education funding through state
Lawmaker thinks Ohio could raise more education funding through state lottery One Ohio lawmaker thinks the Ohio Lottery could be doing more…
AGA Advances Payments Modernization Efforts
A Note From the CEO
Gaming Colleague, Payments modernization is a top priority for the American Gaming Association (AGA) and a major opp…
IWG set to deliver instant win games portfolio to Virginia Lottery
IWG set to deliver instant win games portfolio to Virginia Lottery
Tuesday 16th June 2020 – IWG has signed a five-year contract with th…
Inspired Entertainment announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with Scientific Games for Virtual Sports
INSPIRED ENTERTAINMENT AND SCIENTIFIC GAMES ENTER LICENSING DEAL FOR VIRTUAL SPORTS
NEW YORK, June 16, 2020 - Inspired Entertainment…
Lottery App Hits $1M in Prize Payouts, Launches New Daily Games
Lottery App Hits $1M in Prize Payouts, Launches New Daily Games
Jackpocket and NJ Lottery Respond to Customer Demand Amidst Unprecedente…
United Kingdom could classify loot boxes as gambling to protect children
United Kingdom could classify loot boxes as gambling to protect children Loot boxes may be gambling in the UK
Loot boxes may soon be class…
State-run People’s Bank of China pledges to crack down on gambling-related cross-border capital flow
Combating cross-border gambling-related financial chains will be a “major political mission” assigned by China’s Central Government, accord…
UK: Influential group of MPs calls for total ban on gambling advertising
Exclusive: report proposing far tighter regulation for industry could shape government review
Gambling adverts should be banned, an influe…
Hong Kong Jockey Club two racecourses open for five days from tomorrow for the Royal Ascot simulcast races
Two racecourses open for five days from tomorrow. Betting for simulcast races and limited customer services available
14 June 2020…
Singapore Pools resumes online sports betting, horse wagering
SINGAPORE - Online sports betting will resume in Singapore on Monday (June 15), while punters can bet online on overseas horse races from W…
Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that cellphone-charging kiosks that allow users to win or lose money by playing a video game are illegal gambling machines
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that cellphone-charging kiosks that allow users to win or lose money by playing a video game…
Arizona Lottery Retailer Donates Sales Incentive to Charity
With Arizona Lottery's sale of last week's $410M winning Mega Millions ticket, Circle K, Arizona Lottery's single largest retailer, receive…
Loot Boxes: Game Mechanic Or Aid To Sports Betting Addiction?
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Vermont Senate approves committee to study legal sports betting in Vermont
The Senate unanimously approved Friday setting up a study committee to investigate how the state could tax and regulate sports betting in V…
Advancement in online gaming trends from lockdown 1.0 to lockdown 5.0
Advancement in online gaming trends from lockdown 1.0 to lockdown 5.0 During coronavirus pandemic, every major e-sports portal reported a s…
UK Gambling Commission Information for operators re-opening land-based gambling premises
As restrictions on the lockdown ease the Commission has published a number of frequently asked questions covering its expectations from lan…
Supreme Court agrees gas station video game/phone chargers are gambling machines
Supreme Court agrees gas station video game/phone chargers are gambling machines Jeremy Hahn's idea seemed too dumb to work out, even it wa…
INTRALOT Among the Top 10 Most Attractive Employer Brand Winners
INTRALOT featured as one of the best companies to work for in Greece according to the international annual research of Randstad Employer Br…
The Texas Lottery Commission (TLC) has appointed Tom Hanson as Director of the Charitable Bingo Operations Division
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Ohio Lottery ticket sales up in May
By law, Ohio Lottery profits have to fund schools. As a result of the loss of video lottery terminal revenue, the Ohio Lottery said it sent…
Wendy Montgomery, Senior Vice President of Global Brand, Marketing, and Communications, IGT and Michelle Carney, Vice President North America Lottery Marketing, IGT
IGT must be in over-drive to help your lottery partners get positioned for the post-coronavirus world.
Michelle Carney: Yes, we are t…
Patrick McHugh, Chief Executive, Lottery Group, SCIENTIFIC GAMES
Patrick McHugh, Chief Executive, Lottery Group, SCIENTIFIC GAMES
Re-Imagining Our New World
How will the world be different when we…
Dr. Chris Dimitriadis, Chief Executive Officer, INTRALOT SA
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New Jersey Sen. President Sweeney Calls on Gov. Murphy to Reopen Atlantic City Casinos
New Jersey’s two most powerful lawmakers are at odds over when it’s appropriate to allow Atlantic City’s nine land-based casinos to reopen…
FTC Could Approve Eldorado/Caesars Deal Before July, Brokerage Firm Claims
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) could sign off on Eldorado Resorts Inc.’s (NASDAQ:ERI) $17.3 billion acquisition of rival Caesars Entert…
Sweden's gaming regulatory agency, Spelinspektionen, is introducing temporary gaming responsibility measures
Published: 2020-06-11
The government has, due to covid-19, decided on a temporary regulation focusing on gaming liability measures. The…