London-based lottery supplier Instant Win Gaming (IWG) has completed its first Remote Game Server (RGS) integration onto a US lottery through an agreement with the Michigan Lottery.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has agreed a multi-year partnership with local ice hockey team the Vancouver Canucks, to launch online charitable raffles to raise money for the team's charitable arm.
Geolocation specialist and anti-fraud solution provider GeoComply Solutions has released a new location verification solution in partnership with NeoPollard Interactive, targeting new clients in the US online lottery sector.
In the second part of our exclusive iLottery feature, Gaming Intelligence talks to the three leading US lottery suppliers - Scientific Games, IGT and Intralot - about their plans to digitalise the retail lottery segment.
Like iGaming, the iLottery market has seen slow progress in taking customers online. Only 6 of 45 US states with lotteries currently allow residents to buy lottery draw tickets online, with half of those including some variety of instant win or scratchcard games.
Canadian provincial lottery and gaming operator Loto-Québec is expanding its pool betting product with the addition of a dedicated ice hockey pool offering a guaranteed minimum prize of CAD$125,000.
Canada’s Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) has cancelled its current Request for Proposals (RFP) for lottery services after determining that the selection of a single service provider would not provide sufficient value for the province.
Canadian lottery supplier Pollard Banknote has secured contracts to provide instant game tickets to the South Dakota Lottery and new pull-tab vending machines to the Iowa Lottery.
The South Dakota Lottery has extended its long-running instant games contract with Scientific Games for a further three years.
China’s lottery market recorded its fifth consecutive month of year-on-year growth in July, with total sales climbing 20 per cent to RMB32.40bn (€4.35bn).
The tender to select a supplier and distributor for a new form of the popular Baloto game in Colombia has been suspended over concerns that it could cannibalise lottery revenue, potentially reducing funding for public health initiatives.
The state lottery of Baden-Württemberg is set to launch a new lottery game in which a player's address replaces traditional lottery numbers.