Scott Dowty, PCIP, Payments Executive and investor, explains the importance of your cash access strategy in the first installment of a two-part feature.   Providing access to cash or cash equivalents within a land-based Gaming Establishment (GE) may seem simple—just place a few ATMs, POS terminals, and self-service kiosks, and you’re off to the races, right? Maybe so, and interestingly, […]

MOP19.81 billion in gross gaming revenue for December; MSAR says GGR up 8 per cent year-on-year   Gross gaming revenue for the month of December came in up 8 per cent year-on-year, according to the data posted by the MSAR’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ). Despite the figure being the second highest gross gaming revenue recorded during the 2016-year, at […]

Codere, the Spanish based betting and gaming group announced the acquisition of the additional 50% of Hípica Rioplatense Uruguay (HRU), for USD33 million. In this way Codere becomes full owner of HRU, which manages two racecourses in the South American country.   The official communication addressed to the Madrid SE, states that the Board of Codere S.A. on 29 November […]

The Trade Union of workers of the Administración Nacional de Navegación y Puertos (ANNP) has filed a criminal suit at the country’s anti-corruption unit of the Public Prosecutors as well as the Office of the General Comptroller of the Republic of Paraguay against Javier Balbuena, head of the National Commission of Gaming of Paraguay (Conajzar), for “publication of an international […]

The new website of Mendoza regulators, Instituto Provincial de Juegos y Casinos (IPJyC), which has been set up to publish gaming reports in the province and is available to the general public, shows that during November 2016 the Regency Casino (Hyatt Hotel) leads the pack with $29.6 million (pesos), about USD1.9 million; followed by Casino Enjoy (Sheraton Hotel) with $26.7 […]

On the afternoon of Thursday 15th December, while the global gaming industry celebrated a great early Santa Claus present in the form of Japan’s Diet approving a casino law for the country, in Brazil Senators in the plenary session continued a 20-year long debate to legalize casinos, bingo and the illegal street lottery jogo do bicho and then voted to […]

We are finishing this report in the week of Christmas Eve and instead of celebrating in Portuguese, by counting on gaming legislation approved for the great nation of Brazil, we are revising our Japanese vocabulary. And we can say that we feel ureshii for this country, which approved legislation for integrated resorts with casinos in mid-November. On the matter of […]

Codere, el grupo de apuestas y juegos de azar con sede en España, ha anunciado la adquisición del 50% adicional de Hípica Rioplatense Uruguay (HRU), por 33 millones de dólares, convirtiéndose de esta forma en propietario del total de la sociedad. HRU gestiona dos hipódromos en el país sudamericano.   En la comunicación de Hecho Relevante a la Bolsa de […]

Las autoridades del Instituto Provincial de Juegos y Casinos (IPJyC) de Mendoza presentaron el nuevo sitio web, que permitirá a los ciudadanos en general conocer la información relacionada con el juego en la provincia. En el reporte publicado, el casino que más recaudó durante noviembre 2016 fue el Regency (Hyatt), con $29.6 millones (pesos), unos USD1,9 millones, siguiéndole, el casino […]

En horas de la tarde del jueves 15 de diciembre, mientras la industria del juego celebraba un gran regalo anticipado de Papa Noel por la aprobación de la Ley de Casinos en Japón, en Brasil, los senadores en sesión plenaria discutían sobre la votación del proyecto de ley 186 PLS 186/2014, para legalizar casinos, bingo, jogo do bicho, en el […]