The Michigan Lottery has extended its license agreement with Scientific Games for its gem|Intelligence retailer management solution.
The extended agreement will allow the lottery to benefit from new features and capabilities of the gem|Intelligence cloud solution, which helps to streamline lottery business processes and improve efficiencies for retailers.
“gem|Intelligence continues to be [...]
New York-listed gaming supplier Inspired Entertainment has secured approval to launch its virtual sports titles in Turkey with national lottery operator Sisal Şans.
The approval allows the Turkish national lottery to offer betting on virtual sports for the first time, with Inspired’s portfolio now available for online play via misli.com.
“We have [...]
There were strong returns for shareholders in Q3 as the gaming industry’s collective share price continued to rebound after being decimated in March by the Covid-19 pandemic.
With combined share prices in Q2 rising by 46 per cent to offset many of the losses in Q1, the 50 publicly-listed operators and [...]
Lithuanian National Lottery operator Olifėja has awarded a five-year instant games contract to Scientific Games.
The new contract extends a relationship first established in 2010, through which Scientific Games has grown retail instant game sales to over €56m in the nation of 2.8m people.
“Olifėja enjoys a true partnership with Scientific Games. [...]
Brazil’s instant lottery business LOTEX is in jeopardy after US lottery giants IGT and Scientific Games announced Tuesday that they are withdrawing from the 15-year concession to operate the games.
The LOTEX instant lottery scratchcard business was authorised in 2015 by the government of then president Dilma Rousseff as a way [...]
The Danish Gambling Authority has appointed Anders Dorph as director to replace Morten Niels Jakobsen.
Dorph will begin his new role on 1 November, joining from the Danish Immigration Service where he served as deputy director. He replaces Morten Niels Jakobsen, who left the regulator to take over as director of [...]
Leading European lottery operator Sazka Group has confirmed its participation in the bidding to operate the UK National Lottery.
Sazka operates lotteries in Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece and Italy and has long been interested in the UK National Lottery, which has been operated by Camelot since its inception in 1994.
The [...]
Brazil’s Supreme Court has found the federal government’s lottery monopoly to be unconstitutional.
The Federal Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that although the federal government has the exclusive right to legislate how lotteries may be operated, it does not have the exclusive right to operate a lottery as a monopoly.
The court said [...]
The Canadian province of Alberta has gone live with its first regulated online gaming website at PlayAlberta.ca, initially offering players within the province access to a range of casino and lottery games.
PlayAlberta.ca launched on Thursday (Oct. 1) with its NeoPollard Interactive powered platform, providing players over the age of 18 [...]
China’s lottery market recorded a 2 per cent increase in total lottery sales to RMB34.78bn (€4.36bn) for the month of August.
With results for the first half of the year negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, August marked the second consecutive month of year-on-year growth for the lottery market.
Sales of the [...]
Sydney-listed online lottery provider Jumbo Interactive has agreed a deal to provide its online platform to Western Australia state government-owned lottery operator Lotterywest.
Jumbo subsidiary TMS Global Services has signed a binding team sheet to negotiate a detailed agreement to cover the next ten years, which is expected to be completed [...]
New York-listed International Game Technology (IGT) has secured a two-year contract extension to continued providing instant ticket games and related services to the Minnesota Lottery.
The extended deal with subsidiary IGT Global Solutions Corp. runs through to 30 June 2022, with the supplier having worked directly with the lottery since 2010 [...]