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LAS LEYES DEL GOBIERNO POLACO SOBRE EL procesamiento de pagos se han relajado a través de enmiendas. Dichas enmiendas han hecho posible para las empresas basadas en la UE procesar transacciones relacionadas con el juego, mientras que el mercado online polaco queda abierto ahora a procesadores de pagos online ampliamente difundidos.
INSPIRED ESTÁ SUMINISTRANDO AL ESTADO DE Eslovenia un sitio web de apuestas deportivas, e-stave, con siete deportes (caballos, galgos, fútbol, deportes de motor, speedway, tenis y ciclismo) y localizado al idioma esloveno. Los siete deportes virtuales se retransmitirán en directo y simultánea- mente en
www.e-stave.com cada tres minutos, lo que da como resultado más de 3000 eventos disponibles para apostar a diario.
APEX HA ABIERTO UNA NUEVA OFICINA DE investigación y desarrollo en Austria. La oficina se encuentra en Graz, y es la responsable del desarrollo de juegos de la platafor- ma Multi Magic.
CASINO HELSINKI HA INSTALADO RECIENTEMENTE dos títulos de Plants vs. Zombies de la marca de productos de juego de GTECH, SPIELO, y se han convertido inmediatamente en todo un éxito entre los jugadores. Los dos títulos, Plants vs. Zombies Gargantuar y Plants vs. Zombies Backyard Showdown, han con- seguido revivir un área del establecimiento que había ralentizado sus operaciones, en palabras de la dirección del casino.
SE HA ESTABLECIDO UN NUEVO HITO EN LA evolución del juego asiático con la reapertura del Macau Jockey Club Casino. Tras haber cerrado sus puertas en el año 2004, el Macau Jockey Club Casino del hipódromo de Taipa abarca ahora una superficie de 1200 m². La nueva propietaria, Paradise Entertainment, que opera el casino a modo de satélite de una licencia bajo titularidad de la Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, ha optado por operar un casino electrónico completamente autom- atizado.
LAS VEGAS ARENA COMPANY, PROPIEDADDEAEGY MGM Resorts International, ha iniciado la construcción de un estadio cubierto valorado en 375 millones de dólares que debe abrir sus puertas en la primavera de 2016. Ubicado al oeste de la Franja de Las Vegas, entre New York-New York y Monte Carlo, este nuevo estadio con capacidad para 20 000 espectadores albergará boxeo, UFC y otros eventos deportivos y de entreten- imiento, así como espectáculos y otros eventos especiales.
TRAS HABER PERDIDO DEFINITIVAMENTE LA paciencia con su sector del juego, el Gobierno de Nepal ha termi- nado por ilegalizar la totalidad de sus 10 casinos instándoles a cerrar inmediatamente después de varias advertencias infructu- osas para que pagaran tasas de licencia y royalties.
EL 1 DE MAYO TUVO LUGAR LA INAUGURACIÓN oficial por parte de Pinnacle Entertainment del nuevo centro recreativo de la empresa, Belterra Park Gaming and Entertainment Center, con 1500 juegos.
BALLY TECHNOLOGIES HA AMPLIADO SU cooperación con Golden Nugget para convertirse en el proveedor de sistemas exclusivo a nivel de toda la empresa de los cinco complejos de juego de Golden Nugget en Estados Unidos, inclui- dos los establecimientos de Nevada, Nueva Jersey, Mississippi y el casino que se debe inaugurar próximamente en Louisiana.
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CORREDOR SPORTS-BETTING WINNER
Colombia’s Corredor Empresarial S.A. has won the right to operate Pari-mutuel sports-betting following a public tender Colombia - Sports-betting
Local gaming company Corredor Empresarial S.A. has won the right to operate Pari-mutuel sports betting in Colombia. The company was awarded the highest score in the public tender process, and now how the right to offer Pari-mutuel sports bet- ting on an exclusive basis for the next five years. The company will provide the public heath sector with 24 per cent of gross sales generated by the game which could exceed $50bn pesos (US$26,291,483.52) over the duration of its con- tract.
The Colombian Gaming Control Board (Coljuegos) carried out two public hearings on the issue in February and March with the aim of selecting a single national operator to operate the game nationwide. Two companies, GTech, SB Limitada and Corredor Empresarial S.A. made a bid to offer the game on a wide variety of sporting events
including local football matches. Coljuegos analysed the two proposals and assigned scores according to the percentage of gross gaming rev- enue which the operator offered to provide to the public health service with a minimum value set value of 17 percent of gross sales. The Gaming Control Board also took into account the total value of the marketing budget which each compa- ny offered to allocate to sports betting as well as the number of betting terminals each company agreed to establish nationwide.
On announcing the winning bid Head of Coljuegos Cristina Arango said: “With this offer, which is 17 per cent higher than the minimum stipulated, the public health service will receive over 50 billion pesos.”
Corredor Empresarial S.A is a Colombian compa- ny which has operated a game locally called Super Astro since 2010. Since its introduction onto the market the game, which is a lottery type game based around the signs of the zodiac, it has report- ed sales in excess of $359bn (U.S$187,467,362.92). The company currently operates more than 51,000 Super Astro sales terminals nationwide.
Panama Scientific Gaming has signed an amendment to its contract with Loteria Nacional de Beneficencia of Panama to provide the country’s first online lottery game, Pega 3, under the company’s existing agreement with the Lottery. Created by Scientific Games, Pega 3 is scheduled to launch in June 2014 as a standard Pick 3 game. Ricardo Brooks, Director of Loteria Nacional de Beneficencia, said: “Pega 3 is our very first online lottery draw game and a brand new product for Panama as we continue to work in new ways to respond to our players and deliver the excitement of lottery with a high level of trust and integrity.”
Legislator calls for tightening of controls over the Industry
ARGENTINA Deputy Ricardo Alfonsín has demanded that the government put an end to the “indiscrimi- nate” granting of casino and gaming licences.
The legislator and member of the Radical Civic Union Party said that: "There is no argument that can justify the fact that an activi- ty has been facilitated with so much ease which functions as a trap in which the anguish and despair entrap the poor in order to enrich the rich.
“I hope that the President and
the ruling party, which say they are all so progressive , recognise the need for new regulations when it comes to the establish- ment of casinos , slots , bingo halls and gambling in the coun- try, and their hours of operation," Alfonsín said. The member of the radical party called also for “a new tax legislation to halt and reverse the trend of the prolifera- tion of gaming.”
The National Deputy’s calls for changes to gaming laws come at a time of growing controversy over the industry especially in
Buenos Aires with the Justice department now investigating alleged irregularities in the casi- nos operating in the capital. The prosecutor´s office has received a complaint that there is a lack of online control over three casinos operating in Buenos Aires.
Although casinos are banned by law there are still three large scale casinos in the capital. These are the two “floating casinos” docked permanently to the har- bour while the third is under the racetrack in the neighbourhood of Palermo downtown. All three have been the focus of a bitter dispute between the city govern- ment and the federal government as to who should reap the tax benefits of gaming.
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