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Australia ASX-listed gambling technology firm Aristocrat Leisure is seeking a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), following the decision of current incumbent Toni Korsanos not to relocate to Las Vegas. Following a corporate restructure, Aristocrat has plans to relocate its executive management team to Las Vegas, moving the company closer to its main market. However, Korsanos who has acted as CFO …

Updating industry stakeholders, The Irish Cabinet has approved new age limit regulations for gambling services set under the new ‘Courts and Civil Liabilities Bill’ (Miscellaneous Provisions). The new mandate will set a uniformed age limit of 18-year across all forms of licensed gambling across Ireland. The introduced Bill has set out to modernize the provisions of the 1956 ‘Gaming & …

Gambling multi-product systems provider Win Systems has strengthened its executive management team by confirming the appointments of Carlos Reig as Corporate Director of Operations (Gaming) and Jose Luis Aranda as Managing Director of Gold Club Gaming in Slovenia. The Barcelona-based firm confirms the senior appointments, in order to continue its strong commercial momentum recorded during the past twelve months. A …

Issuing a market update, Nasdaq-listed industry technology provider Scientific Games Corporation has moved to expand its mobile gaming proficiencies by acquiring UK independent mobile games and app developer Red7Mobile. Confirming its outright acquisition of the Bristol-based industry games developer, Scientific Games chose not to disclose details regarding its deal. However, Scientific Games detailed to its stakeholders that it would gain …

Argentina based gambling operator Lotería de San Luis has hailed the positive start of its first online gambling product Jugadon.com powered by industry developing market platform provisions specialist Sirplay. Detailing ‘Stage 1’ growth, Lotería de San Luis management has achieved all initial launch targets with the company reporting a 40% month-on-month growth for in active users. A confident Lucas Baffetti, …

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has filed a federal court order demanding a ‘further judicial review’ of the AUS $11 billion merger of Tabcorp Holdings and Tatts Group Plc. The Tabcorp-Tatts combination to form the ‘outright Australian gambling market leader’ was approved on 20 June by the Australian Competition Tribunal (ACT). However, the ACCC who acted as the …

Updating the market, Paddy Power has informed that it has signed a five-year broadcast deal with racing content supplier SIS (Sports Information Services), which will see the bookmaker upgrade to a ‘branded retail TV Network’ hosted by SIS services. The partnership will see Paddy Power become the first bookmaker to integrate SIS’s latest production technology, Complex Automated Production (CAP), which …

Mark Frissora ,CEO of Caesars Entertainment Corporation (CEC), is set to implement an aggressive global expansion strategy with CEC looking to grow its corporate assets ‘beyond gambling’. Last week, Frissora confirmed the appointment of two key executive hires, placing former Hard Rock International VP Marco Roca as new ‘President of Global Development’ and leisure sector M&A veteran Michael Daly as ‘VP …

Sports betting integrity body ESSA has welcomed the regulatory interest in tackling match fixing via The Group of Copenhagen (Network of National Platforms), which held its 4th meeting in The Hague this week at the Department of Sport at the Dutch Ministry of Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. ESSA Secretary General Khalid Ali said the organisation: welcomed the increased focus on betting …

Novomatic AG’s claim against Euro Games Technology Ltd (“EGT”) has been dismissed by the District Court Berlin. It was initially announced in October 2016 that Novomatic AG would initiate court proceedings against EGT. The claim, made against Sofia based Euro Games Technology Ltd and German sales partner D-Systems GmbH claimed that some of EGT’s games systematically and unfairly utilised essential …