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SINGAPORE – OPENBET WINS SINGAPORE POOLS OpenBet has signed a seven-year contract with Singapore Pools to provide sports betting products and services.
OpenBet was selected from an open Expression of Interest (EOI) exercise initiated by Singapore Pools in February 2014 to replace its ten-year-old sports betting system.
“Signing with Singapore Pools is a landmark win for OpenBet, one which affirms the company vision and direc- tion, and our role as a global leader in major regulated gam- ing markets,” said OpenBet CEO Jeremy Thompson-Hill.
Founded in 1968, Singapore Pools provides legal lottery and sports betting in a secure, trusted and efficient manner to combat loss of revenue to unauthorized gambling operators, and channel the proceeds to good causes and charity.
Singapore Pools is 100 per cent owned by the Tote Board which reports to the Ministry of Finance and has a product portfolio of the lotto game TOTO, pre-printed lottery game The Singapore Sweep, numbers game 4D, as well as football and motor racing sports betting.
NORTHEN MARIANA ISLANDS – GLI RECOGNITION The Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) of the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) has adopted Gaming Laboratories International’s (GLI) technical standards, known as the GLI Standards Series.
The CCC has also recognized GLI as an independent test lab for a new Saipan-based casino, expected to open later this month. The Commonwealth is a new gambling jurisdiction, and the temporary casino in Saipan will be the jurisdiction’s first. GLI has worked closely with the CCC over the past sev- eral months to ensure it is empowered to execute a first- class regulatory model for the slot machines and other gam- bling equipment operated by Best Sunshine International Ltd., which will operate the new casino.
GLI Australia Senior Manager of Regulation Compliance and QA Phil Harrison said, “We are honored to have been chosen by the CCC to lend our global expertise to this new jurisdic- tion. The GLI Standards Series is recognized worldwide for bringing clarity and structure to operators, suppliers and reg- ulators. Beyond the Standards Series, we were privileged to consult with the jurisdiction and help to create a foundation for long-lasting success.”
SINGAPORE – IGT APPOINTS IGT has appointed Angela Houslay as Director International Systems Sales, Commercial Gaming.
In this role, Houslay works closely with IGT international casino cus- tomers outside of the U.S. and Canada to select casino systems solutions that meet their unique operational needs and ensures that IGT is their sys- tems provider of choice. Houslay has 23 years’ experience in international commercial gaming, spanning both the opera- tor and supplier sides of the industry. She has spent the last seven years of her career in system sales and services with the legacy IGT organization and the six years prior with the legacy GTECH systems product management organization. Houslay reports to Sabby Gill, IGT Senior Vice President International Commercial Gaming.
3 0 GENTING AND LOTTE TARGET BUSAN
Malaysia’s Genting Group is targeting the South Korean port of Busan in a bid to develop a large destination casino resort
South Korea - New Projects
Lotte Group, a multinational food and shopping corporation with headquarters in South Korea and Japan, has said it is teaming up with Genting Group, in a bid to develop a large casino resort at the North Port of Busan in South Korea.
The company has lodged a proposal for the devel- opment project with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. It currently has 34 proposals for casino resorts including Lotte’s, and will be selecting two to move forward with.
A ministry official said: “The Busan Port Authority has completed the engineering works on the port with four large cruise ship berths. As Lotte Group’s base is Busan, it seems the group picked the North Port for its casino complex project’s location in consideration of regional development.”
Genting Group is working with Lotte Group as leg- islation dictates that the foreigner-only casino plans must include a local company. Lotte Group
is looking to build hotels, tax-free stores and water-sports facilities at the resort
Other companies that have lodged interest with the ministry include Sun City, Galaxy, Nagacorp the Korea Water Resources Corporation, Grand Korea Leisure, Hong Kong based Imperia Pacific International Holdings, Global Game Asset Management and Mohegan Sun.
The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will announce the results of the tender by November. DS Kim and Daisy Lu, from JP Morgan Securities, said: “According to media, MCST will review these proposals and select ‘around two’ potential sites in August, followed by a full request for proposal process by November. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism plans to issue around two integrated resort casino licences by the end of 2015.”
Genting opened the Genting Jeju casino at the Hyatt Regency hotel on Jeju Island earlier this year, having bought the venture. Genting pur- chased the property for US$117.2m. The move to buy an existing casino saw the Genting brand enter Jeju earlier than expected following delays to its $2.2bn Resorts World Jeju, a project where it is teaming up with Landing International.
units with Crown following the successful implementation of the first order and progress from there. IDS have been working hard to introduce i-depsys to overseas markets and the Crown deal and their commitment to IDS reflects this effort.”
Crown signs deal with Intelligent Deposit Systems
AUSTRALIA Following successful trials of its intelligent electronic table drop box i-depsys product at Crown Melbourne, Intelligent Deposit Systems has received an order for units to be installed in Crown’s Maple Room, a busy Baccarat area within the main gaming floor. Crown Melbourne has appointed IDS as its exclusive supplier of table game electronic drop box technology for the next two years.
IDS CEO Andrew Beddoe said: “We have been working with Crown for 12 months on the intro- duction of the i-depsys product into their property. This announcement comes following a great deal of hard work from both our businesses and successful live trials of i-depsys in their Melbourne casino. We are delighted to be working with such a forward thinking profes- sional team as Crown Melbourne. The plan is to rollout additional
Crown Melbourne GM Table Games Strategy & Commercial Tim Barnett said: “Crown has been impressed by the desire and diligence of the IDS team to deliver a product that will improve Crown’s ability to pro- vide a better customer experi- ence by reducing time due to large buy-ins at Baccarat tables.”
i-depsys continues to lead the world with its technology for this market and IDS is progressing similar opportunities in Asia, Europe and North America fol- lowing additional UK orders ear- lier this year. Mr. Beddoe added: “Alongside Crown we are work- ing with other highly respected global operators and are close to concluding further orders.”
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