Hong Kong-listed lottery provider AGTech Holdings has secured new lottery hardware supply deals in five provinces across China.
The deals to supply sports lottery terminals in Anhui, Shanxi, Jilin, Hubei, and Guizhou were won by the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Beijing AGTech GOT Technology Co, further strengthening the supplier’s position in China’s [...]
China’s lottery market posted another decline in May as total lottery sales fell by 18 per cent year-on-year to RMB29.22bn (€3.7bn).
Lottery sales continued to be negatively impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, although sales improved versus the previous month’s RMB23.39bn total.
Welfare Lottery sales fell by 15 per cent year-on-year to [...]
Lottery supplier NeoPollard Interactive has entered into a long-term agreement to develop a new online gaming platform for the Canadian province of Alberta.
Following a competitive procurement process, the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission (AGLC) has awarded NeoPollard a seven-year contract to build and maintain the iGaming platform, alongside an [...]
Denmark’s state-owned gaming operator Danske Spil has appointed former Minister of Taxation and Defense Peter Christensen as chairman.
The Ministry of Finance confirmed that Christensen will replace Peter Gæmelke, who has served as chairman since 2011 and is now stepping down.
Christensen has extensive political experience, having served as Minister of Taxation [...]
France’s new gambling regulator L'Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) has officially taken over from ARJEL with a significantly expanded regulatory scope and enhanced powers.
ANJ was established last year under amended gambling legislation to enable the regulator to supervise all segments of the French gambling market, assuming responsibility for online gambling [...]
Athens-listed Intralot has launched its content management system with long-term partner the Taiwan Sports Lottery Corporation (TSLC).
The supplier’s Intralot Canvas CMS solution provides the operator with a range of tools around personalization, analytics, player engagement and marketing, as well as a comprehensive set of betting specific functionalities.
As part of the [...]
Lawmakers in the US state of Georgia have tacked sports betting legislation to an unrelated traffic bill in an effort to boost state finances following the economic disruption caused by COVID-19.
The proposed legislation would negate the need for a statewide referendum to authorize sports betting by handing authority to the [...]
Toronto-listed lottery supplier Pollard Banknote has partnered Blackhawk Network to launch a new in-lane retail lottery solution.
The partnership will see Pollard Banknote offer lottery scratch games in checkout lanes alongside the range of prepaid cards offered by Blackhawk, enabling retailers to market and sell lottery tickets at the register [...]
Athens-listed lottery and gaming supplier Intralot has unveiled its new Lotos Xi digital lottery platform.
Lotos Xi is an end-to-end multi-channel solution that enables lottery operators to define and offer subscriptions for any available game and manage its content.
It has been integrated with Intralot’s Lotos X Orchestrator, which enables a set [...]
Gibraltar-based lottery provider Lottoland has launched a new digital scratchcard in partnership with the British Red Cross.
The digital scratchcard will cost £1 and has a top jackpot prize of £50,000, with 20 pence in every pound to be donated to the British Red Cross.
“We are delighted to be launching this [...]
Paris-listed lottery and gaming operator FDJ has revealed that the two months of lockdown in France had a negative impact of close to €200m on its revenue.
Ahead of its General Meeting later today, FDJ said that total stakes had dropped by nearly 60 per cent over the period, with the [...]
Canada’s British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has strengthened its sports betting operations through Scientific Games’ OpenTrade Managed Trading Services (MTS).
BCLC’s PlayNow.com has gone live with the full OpenTrade risk and liability management service, including access to proprietary feeds and pre-match and in-play pricing across a range of US sports.
This allows [...]