European lottery operator SAZKA Group has brought in Sir Keith Mills to lead its bid to operate the UK National Lottery.
Sir Mills is a British entrepreneur who founded the Air Miles and Nectar customer loyalty programmes and played a pivotal role in London’s successful bid to host the 2012 Olympic [...]
Retail closures related to the Covid-19 pandemic have contributed to an 8 per cent fall in total betting and gaming duty receipts in the United Kingdom.
The latest figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) include duties on Bingo, Gaming, General Betting, Lottery, Pool Betting and Remote Gaming in the six-month [...]
Toronto-listed lottery provider Pollard Banknote has been awarded a new five-year instant games contract by the Massachusetts State Lottery.
Following a competitive procurement process, Pollard Banknote was chosen to continue providing the lottery with instant products and related services until October 2025, with an option for two one-year extensions.
“We are pleased [...]
New York-listed supplier International Game Technology (IGT) has agreed a multi-year extension to continue as the VLT central systems provider for Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC).
As part of the contract extension, subsidiary IGT Canada Solutions will upgrade WCLC's video lottery system to the latest version of its INTELLIGEN systems software [...]
China’s lottery market has declined by 27 per cent to RMB230.68bn (€29.5bn) in the first nine months of 2020, with sales negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic during the first half of the year.
After seeing an improvement in sales during July and August, total lottery sales fell by 1.5 per [...]
Italy’s financial law enforcement agency Guardia di Finanza has seized €27m in assets from 12 individuals suspected of tampering with IGT’s systems to gain access to high value winning lottery scratchcards.
The 12 individuals stand accused of aggravated fraud, unauthorised access to IT systems, receiving stolen goods and money-laundering.
The investigation led [...]
Athens-listed gaming and lottery supplier Intralot has introduced a new type of lottery draw game with partner Camelot Illinois, the private manager of the Illinois Lottery.
The new Fast Play games are the first of their kind to be sold in Illinois, giving players a chance to win prizes at the [...]
New York-listed supplier Scientific Games has secured a new ten-year contract to provide its lottery central gaming system and instant game management services to the Oklahoma Lottery.
Scientific Games will provide the lottery with its Enhanced Partnership (SGEP) program, which provides game category management of Oklahoma Scratchers, as well as a [...]
Online gaming and iLottery supplier NeoGames is aiming to go public through an IPO on New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange.
NeoGames has completed its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to raise up to $90m through an initial public offering on Nasdaq.
NeoGames was founded in 2005 and spun [...]
New York-listed supplier Scientific Games has agreed a new two-year deal to continue providing instant lottery scratch games to Croatian National Lottery operator Hrvatska Lutrija.
The agreement extends a successful two-year collaboration that has grown retail sales of the products by 60 per cent since 2018, and includes the launch of [...]
The Chinese government has made changes to lottery rules that will ban all virtual sports lottery games in the country.
In a joint notice, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the General Administration of Sport have proposed a ban on the sale of quick-draw Welfare Lottery games [...]
The Belgian National Lottery (Loterie Nationale) has selected technology supplier Kambi as its new sports betting platform and services provider.
The World Lottery Association member first launched its Scooore! sports betting brand in Belgium in 2012 and has now partnered with Kambi following a competitive procurement process to upgrade its online [...]