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IWG targets North American expansion with Alchemy3 partnership

Online instant win games supplier IWG has signed a brand licensing agreement with Georgia-based lottery marketing services provider Alchemy3.

The agreement will see the companies develop omnichannel licensed games for the North American lottery market, combining IWG’s eInstant mechanics with Alchemy3’s wide range of popular brands to create games that bridge [...]

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Romanian Lottery secures approval to launch online

Romanian national lottery operator Loterie Romana is set to offer its lottery games online for the first time after securing regulatory approval.

The Romanian Digitization Authority (ADR) has approved the launch of an online lottery platform for Loterie Romana via loto.ro, which will initially allow for the online sale of traditional [...]

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Loto-Quebec

Loto-Québec full year iGaming revenue grows to $135.9m

Canadian provincial lottery operator Loto-Québec has reported a 3 per cent fall in total revenue to CAD$2.74bn for its 2019/20 financial year, despite strong growth from its iGaming business.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a minimal impact on results for the financial year ended 31 March, although lottery revenue fell by 3 [...]

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Scientific Games secures new instant game deal with Nederlandse Loterij

New York-listed Scientific Games has been awarded a new four-year contract to provide instant games to Dutch national lottery operator Nederlandse Loterij.

The contract is part of the Scientific Games Enhanced Partnership (SGEP), a performance-driven management program used by more than 20 lotteries globally, and by the Dutch lottery since 2011, [...]

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Oregon

Oregon Lottery sports betting turnover surpasses $25m in August

The Oregon Lottery has generated turnover of $25.8m from its SBTech-powered Scoreboard online sports betting operation in August.

Turnover was 84 per cent higher than the previous month, with basketball representing more than half of the total with turnover of $14.0m.

The next most popular sport was baseball with wagers of $4.4m, [...]

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Scientific Games

Scientific Games confirms 34.9% stake sale to institutional investors

New York-listed Scientific Games has confirmed that a number of long-term institutional investors have reached an agreement to acquire a 34.9 per cent stake in Scientific Games from MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated.

As previously reported by Gaming Intelligence, the institutional investors include gaming industry investor Caledonia, with the 34.9 per cent [...]

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Scientific Games

Ron Perelman set to dispose of stake in Scientific Games

Ron Perelman, the chairman and principal shareholder of Scientific Games, is said to have lined up a deal to sell his 39 per cent stake in the business to Australian investment firm Caledonia.

Caledonia is said to have agreed a price of $25 per share for the stake in the global [...]

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Scientific Games pilots new instant ticket vending machines in Germany

New York-listed lottery and gaming supplier Scientific Games has rolled out its self-service instant ticket vending technology in Germany for the first time with the Sachsenlotto in Saxony.

The supplier is piloting its PlayCentral HD vending machines at a selection of locations across the German state, including malls, various sized retailers [...]

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Sazka

Retail lottery decline offsets SAZKA Group’s online growth in H1

European lottery operator SAZKA Group has reported a 28 per cent drop in gross gaming revenue (GGR) to €652m for the first half of 2020, as a result of the impact of COVID-19 on land-based sales.

Results were impacted by a 45 per cent decline in GGR to €247m during the [...]

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Danske Spil

Danske Spil posts first half revenue decline despite lottery growth

Denmark’s state-owned gaming operator Danske Spil has posted an 8 per cent drop in gross gaming revenue (GGR) to DKK2.30bn (€309.1m) for the first half of 2020.

The company said the first half results were “satisfactory” despite the negative impact of COVID-19 on its subsidiaries.

Danske Licens Spil, which operates Oddset, Tips [...]

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OPAP

OPAP sees first half revenue decline 36%

Athens-listed lottery and gaming operator OPAP has reported a 36 per cent fall in net gaming revenue to €335.2m for the first half of 2020, as results were impacted by COVID-19 related lockdowns and retail store closures.

Total amounts wagered declined by 34 per cent year-on-year to €1.41bn, with gross gaming [...]

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Camelot Lottery Solutions launches e-Instant games RGS platform

Camelot Lottery Solutions (CLS) has launched a new Remote Gaming Server (RGS) to enable its e-Instant games portfolio to be made available to lotteries worldwide.

Built in-house and able to integrate with any iLottery platform, the RGS is a result of CLS launching e-Instant games with a number of European lotteries [...]

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