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EL EMERALD CASINO DE SUDÁFRICA, PARTE DEL Caesars Entertainment Group, se ha convertido en el último cliente de DRGT. Con un contingente total combinado de 540 tragaperras de carrete y de vídeo de una amplia gama de fabri- cantes y 23 mesas, el Emerald ha instalado casi todos los módulos de sistema más recientes de DRGT.
LA COMPAÑÍA CON BASE EN HONG KONG MELCOLOT ha confirmado que «sigue interesada» en el proceso de lic- itación para operar un casino en el BCN World de Barcelona (España) a pesar de haber roto un acuerdo para presentarse a una licitación con Veremonte España S. L.
DELAWARE Y NUEVA JERSEY, DOS DE LOS TRES estados de EE. UU. con un sector del iGaming regulado, han suscrito un acuerdo que les permitirá a los jugadores de Delaware participar en juegos de casino online albergados en Atlantic City.
GREENTUBE, DEL NOVOMATIC GROUP, HA anunciado que Greentube Pro, la plataforma de marketing de Greentube de casino social privada que se suministra ya lista para funcionar, será la plataforma de casino social exclusiva para el Foxwoods Resort Casino.
A PRINCIPIOS DE OCTUBRE, SUZOHAPP TUVO EL honor de contar con el Ministro de Transportes de Ontario, Steven Del Duca, y el alcalde de la ciudad de Vaughan, Maurizio Bevilacqua, para unirse al equipo de SuzoHapp Canadá en la celebración de la ceremonia de inauguración oficial de sus instalaciones vanguardistas de 22 000 m² en Vaughan (Canadá).
ARISTOCRAT HA SUSCRITO UN IMPORTANTE acuerdo con Caesars Entertainment que supone la instalación de 200 juegos prémium a lo largo y ancho del imperio del juego de Caesars. Este acuerdo viene a complementar la base de instalación con leasing prémium ya existente de Aristocrat, y se trata del acuerdo único sobre ingresos recurrentes de categoría III de mayores dimensiones en los más de 60 años de historia de Aristocrat.
EL OPERADOR AUSTRALIANO CROWN MELBOURNE SE dispone a añadir una torre-hotel de lujo de seis estrellas a su establecimiento de casino en Melbourne. El despacho de arqui- tectos británico Wilkinson Eyre se ha impuesto en el concurso convocado para diseñar el nuevo Queensbridge Hotel Tower y su correspondiente establecimiento anexo que estará situado en el área Southbank de Melbourne.
EL PROVEEDOR DE JUEGO DE MACAU PARADISE Entertainment ha instalado con éxito su Live Multi-Game (LMG) en el casino Lan Kwai Fong de Macau. La nueva zona de juego electrónico ha abierto sus puertas con 63 terminales de LMG donde se ofrecen seis juegos de bacarrá y Paradise Jackpot bajo un acuerdo de leasing.
EL GOBIERNO DE CAMBOYA HA EMITIDO 10 NUEVAS licencias de casino, con lo que el total del país se incrementa hasta las 75. Ros Phearun, Subdirector General del Departamento del Sector Financiero dentro del Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas, reveló que la mayoría de las nuevas licencias estarán en el complejo costero de Sihanoukville.
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The Chilean Gaming Control Board has come under fire over new rules for the granting of licences for casinos
Chile - Legislation
The Chilean Gaming Control Board (SJC) has come under fire over new rules regarding regulations over the processing and granting of licences for casinos. Operators used a recent public consulta- tion process to express their fears and anger over new laws when the board received comments from the industry and the general public, over recent proposals made by the Ministry of Finance. The legislative proposal, which will repeal the Supreme Decree No. 211 of 2005, was also posted on the SJC for consultation.
The public consultation regards the recent enact- ment of Law No. 20,856, which introduces amendments to gaming Law No. 19,995. The amendments extend the municipal licenses until December 2017 and modifies the allocation mech- anism for operating permits. This includes both the technical and financial parameters for licences made by future applicants.
According to Enjoy in a written statement the
new rules ignored the fact that investments had already been made by current operators and that the renewal of licences as laid out in the new law did not favour those operators which had already invested in Chile. Instead taxes had been added for the municipal localities where they are located which constituted “an alteration to the rules defined for industry investment.” This according to Enjoy could seriously “damage the property and interests of these companies.”
Other land based operators joined suit with opera- tors of the Monticello casino, the largest casino in
Chile, arguing that the new law favoured new entrants to the market and discriminated against operators who are already in the region as it does not take into account “for the purposes of techni- cal evaluation of the bids submitted, infrastruc- ture and investments made by existing operators.” The company also argued that the new law dis- criminated against foreign investment as it estab- lished arbitrary requirements to “limit the partici- pation of stakeholders who are part of foreign conglomerates, producing a perverse disincentive effect on the participation of large conglomerates in this industry.”
The growing controversy comes after President Michelle Bachelet signed into law new regulations, which extend the licenses of the seven municipal casinos in Chile earlier this year. The new rules extend the licenses until December 2017 in the districts of Vina del Mar, Arica, Iquique, Puerto Varas, Coquimbo, Pucon and Puerto Natales, which all expire on December 31, 2015.
However, once these licences expire the statute provides that from that date onwards, those municipalities will continue to be a home to a casino for a total of three periods of 15 years each and the new casinos will come under the supervi- sion of the SJC. This will herald in a number of new large scale casinos especially as a number of the municipal casino licenses, such as the licence for Vina del Mar, are located in the most popular local tourists destinations.
New rules seek to ban cash transactions in casinos
ARGENTINA The deputy representing the province of Córdoba Diego Mestre, has put forward a bill which would only ban the use of cash in casinos and slot parlours in Argentina in order to curb money laundering and tax eva- sion. Instead only credit cards and debit cards would be permit- ted.
According to Mestre’s proposals, Argentina’s anti money launder- ing laws would be amended so that they would incorporate new measures which only allow cred- it cards and debit cards in casinos and slot parlours. The use of credit and debit cards would be the only means of purchasing chips and betting in casinos, bet-
ting shops, bingo halls, race- tracks, and slot parlours through- out Argentina, he said.
Speaking to local press Mestre said that the new law would safeguard against money laun- dering: “With putting the process within the banking system, the way of acquiring chips and bet- ting, would be by informing the banking system who and how much is being bet. Today, casinos and the gambling business engage in financial activities in the context of entertainment, but they do not care who or where the money is coming from. Neither the state nor anyone knows for sure where they these funds end up which may come from all kinds of crimes, such as
drug trafficking or arms dealing,” he said.
Mestre’s proposals are the latest in a number of measures which seek to enforce stricter rules when it comes to financial trans- actions in casinos and other gam- ing establishments in Argentina. In May 2014 Deputy Juan Carlos Juárez introduced a bill into in the Buenos Aires Legislature which would prohibit cash betting throughout the province.
The bill would make it obligatory for all slot parlours, casinos and lottery outlets to put the technol- ogy in place which would allow the player to make their bet: “via debit cards, credit cards and other forms of electronic payment.” In addition to imposing daily betting limits the initiative would also ensure that all prizes would be deposited into bank accounts directly and “under no circum- stances shall be made in cash.”
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