Chile Tender Remains on Track SOUTH AMERICA
Greentube ha suscrito un acuerdo de colaboración con la empresa de juegos móviles Chopsticks, con sede en Gibraltar. Según dicho acuerdo, Chopsticks desarrollará toda una gama de juegos móviles populares dando lugar a títulos que serán distribuidos por Greentube a sus canales online, móviles, sociales y terrestres.
Los terminales de videolotería de APEX gaming se han instalado con éxito en los 16 establecimientos de WINWIN en Austria. WINWIN ha creado un nuevo concepto de juego en Austria, y ofrece posibilidades para jugar en un entorno tranquilo, con una cafetería y un bar integrados.
Kambi Group y Novomatic Lottery Solutions (NLS) han suscrito un memorando para suminis- trar a las loterías reguladas por el Gobierno una potente solución de juego con servicio completo. El servicio combinará la plataforma de lotería de NLS con el servicio de apuestas deportivas de Kambi.
La Generalidad de Cataluña tiene como objetivo aprovechar el éxito de su lotería de Año Nuevo (La Grossa Cap d'Any) con la creación de un importante nuevo sorteo que se lanzará el 27 de abril y que coincidirá con el 30.º aniversario de la lotería de Cataluña.
El Grupo Al Bidda, con base en Qatar, que ha recibido permiso para construir un hotel rascacie- los en el Puerto de Málaga, ha incluido un casino como parte de su plan empresarial.
Incorporando la primera experiencia de resort de juego de lujo a la región de la capital estadounidense, el MGM National Harbor, valorado en 1400 millones de dólares, hará su estreno largo tiempo esperado el jueves, 8 de diciembre, a solo unos minutos de Washington D.C. en la ribera del río Potomac.
Red Rock Resorts ha anunciado que su empresa Station Casinos ha finalizado la adquisi- ción del establecimiento terrestre Palms Casino Resort en el área de juego estadounidense de Las Vegas, Nevada.
Los habitantes de la isla taiwanesa de Penghu han rechazado una vez más la propuesta de con- struir casinos en este condado insular tan popular por su turismo.
SIS ha suscrito un acuerdo en exclusiva de tres años con el Club de Turf de Mauricio para dis- tribuir por primera vez fotografías de las carreras, datos y precios de cuotas fijas a operadores online y casas de apuestas minoristas británicas.
El Grupo Star Entertainment Group ha obtenido una nueva licencia de casino por parte del Gobierno de Queensland para el resort inte- grado que tiene previsto construir en Queens Wharf Brisbane.
GLI ha sido autorizada por la Comisión del Juego del estado de Nueva York para realizar pruebas y certificaciones independientes de equipos de juego dentro del estado de Nueva York.
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Te head of the Chilean Gaming Board (SJC) has reported that Circular N° 62 (slot technical standards) will not be modified this year
Interest has been growing in investing in Chile’s municipal casinos, especially the casino located in Viña del Mar.
CHILE LEGISLATION
Te head of the Chilean Gaming Board (SJC) has reported that Circular N° 62 will not be modified this year. Te circular outlines the SJC’s policy when it comes to the technical standards for slot machines as authorised under Law No. 19,995 and states that new casinos may only house slot machines which are either brand new or have been manufactured within the previous two years and have not been used.
Te board said that it had made its decision so that the process of granting the municipal casino licences, which began in May, would not be affected by any abrupt changes to gaming board policy. According to a statement: “Te board has evaluated the change to the circular which has been in force since April 7, 2015, after a request was made from the industry. However the body adopted the decision to postpone its revision having analysed the comments which it received on the two occasions (May and September this year) when the norm was put up for consultation . . . ”
According to the board it soon became apparent that there “were opposing views concerning the effect its modification might have on the
Bolivia
Calls for new laws to control online gaming
New rules to control online gaming are needed according to Bolivia’s Authority of Taxation and Social Control over Gaming (AJ). According to the board, online gaming especially via social networking sites and via internet cafes is growing at a fast pace, but the board does not have the legal or technological resources to regulate it. As a result the AJ is currently in talks with the national government over the need to create a new gaming law to allow the gaming board to intervene in online gaming and take legal action against those found to be operating outside of the law.
Head of the AJ Jéssica Saravia Atristain said: “We have proved that bets are being generated online where they (the players) are connecting to a server which is prohibited.” Te official said that online gaming was often carried out in online betting centres which
granting of licences particularly on those processes which are already underway.”
As a result the board decided that now was not the time to change gaming rules “because it could affect the principles of competitiveness that should be safeguarded in the seven open processes for licences considering that it is less than a month before the Audience for the Presentation of Offers which will be held on November 4.” As a result it said that Circular N° 62 will remain “in force and without changes.”
Te seven new licences are available after President Michelle Bachelet signed into law new regulations, which extend the licenses of the seven municipal casinos. Te 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 expired on December 31, 2015. 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 supervision of the SJC.
are disguised as internet cafes. Curucusi Games is currently the only licensed land based operator in Bolivia. Te company applied for a licence in 2011 and its first casino opened in Santa Cruz in 2014.
Oscar Arce Rodríguez, regional director of the AJ said that a number of online gaming companies were using legal loopholes in order to take advantage of current laws, especially via mobile phones. “Tere is a lot of demand for online gaming, which is punishable by law, but we need a law in order to able to to act . . . We are reviewing loopholes so we can take action on the matter,” he said.
Sports betting via mobile phones is also illegal, but the board needs legal resources and more government backing first in order to intervene in the matter. “Tere are norms for sports betting on cell phones and it is not permitted , controls will be carried out and if we find that the organiser of these bets are (based) in Bolivia then they will be punished,” he said.
Dominican Republic
Scientific Games has secured its third casino-management systems solutions contract with a Hard Rock casino resort, signing an agreement with Inversiones y Entretenimiento PC to supply casino systems solutions to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Scientific Games is replacing a competitor’s systems solutions at the Caribbean casino resort, which features a 45,000 sq.ft. casino with more than 450 slot machines and 40 table games. Hard Rock International’s Executive Vice President of Operations, Hotels & Casinos Jon Lucas said: “After our positive experiences with Scientific Games at our Florida and Ohio properties, it was an easy decision to engage Scientific Games once again for Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana.”
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