Colombia Unveils New Unified Lottery SOUTH AMERICA
ARGENTINA – Gaming Laboratories International’s experts had the honour of providing customised training to The Institute of Lotteries and Casinos of the Province of Buenos Aires (IPLYC)’s systems and inspection department from Sept. 12 to 14. The IPLYC, interested in strengthening their technical knowledge and expanding their professional toolkit, reached out to GLI’s world-renowned educational program, GLI University, for training and invited regulators from other Argentinean jurisdictions.
The three-day, customised training took place in the cities of Pilar and Tigre and included a theoretical introduction based on GLI’s Slots 101 module and on-site inspection training on system verification, communication testing, machine and game verification and progressive verification. IPLYC Director of Systems, the Province of Buenos Aires regulatory entity, Marcelo Mehl said: “We are very satisfied with the training. GLI developed a curriculum tailored to our needs. We want to strengthen our relationship with GLI and plan for at least three trainings per year, especially for the inspectors that work within the regulatory entities. Also, we will continue to invite regulators from other jurisdictions to participate in the training.”
ARGENTINA – Merkur Gaming has announced that it has opened a new company and will take up new premises in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Having now completed a process of market evaluation, Merkur Gaming Argentina, SA has been established as the latest wholly owned subsidiary of the Gauselmann Group. It is planned that the new company, which will be located in Buenos Aires, will be fully open for business in early 2017.
Charles Hiten, Chief Executive of Merkur Gaming Americas, stated: “Argentina is now re-established as one of the most successful countries in Latin America and, with its clearly favourable trading climate, it is exactly the right time to bring the Merkur brand, backed by the high manufacturing standards and exceptional innovation of the whole Gauselmann Group, onto the Argentinean landscape. I would also like to note that Merkur Gaming has, because of its reputation and proven success in other Latin American countries, received many enquiries from major operators in Argentina over the past few months and we are now very glad to be able to respond so positively.”
As moves to source the ideal premises and to recruit the necessary staff are carried out Mr Hiten also noted that the team and the premises that Merkur Gaming Argentina, SA will establish will be exemplary. “Building on the success of our intensified activities throughout Latin America, including increased brand awareness and the creation of an exceptionally strong team, all of whom embrace and share our commitment to excellence, has helped to give Merkur Gaming a strong presence across the region. We expect nothing less from our new expansion into Argentina and, given the full support and the resources being brought to bear through the Gauselmann Group, we are totally confident of success. So my message to Argentinean operators is ‘you asked, we are responding and we are committed to making Merkur Gaming a ‘must have’ investment for the gaming floors of Argentina.”
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Te National Federation of Departments of Colombia (FND) has announced that is it preparing a bill whereby all of the local state lotteries will be unified
Colombia is to unify all local state lotteries in a bid to increase gaming revenue generated as a whole for the state
COLOMBIA LEGISLATION
Amilkar Acosta, President of the National Federation of Departments (pictured), has announced that the organisation is in the process of carrying out a market study that would lead to the development of specifications for an “open tender in order to find an operator that offers better guarantees.”
According to the statements made by Acosta, the bidding process is expected in November and the project could be implemented before the end of this year. Loto lotín as the new game will be called will be a way of integrating the current state run lotteries into a single product. “Te idea is not to compete but to ally ourselves with those (lotteries) that still exist,” he said.
Regarding the current controversy over Baloto he said that before the game is given the go ahead that the Ministry of Finance and the Colombian Gaming Control Board (Coljuegos) should carry out a study first on the impact the new game would have. Te tender to operate Multiplicador (Multiplier), a new option for those who play Baloto, has been postponed in Colombia after regional governors argued that
Costa Rica
Waco Limitada’s Casino Club Colonial in San Jose, Costa Rica is the first casino in the country to install IGT’s S3000 cabinet and its Sphinx 3D game with True 3D technology alongside 14 of IGT’s CrystalDual cabinets. Jessica Luna, IGT Senior Sales Director, said: “Players around the world continue to enjoy IGT’s True 3D title Sphinx 3D and games on our S3000 and CrystalDual cabinets; we’re excited to now extend those experiences to players at Casino Club Colonial.”
“When updating our casino floor, we knew that the inclusion of IGT’s latest products would ensure that we are offering our players the most exciting gaming experiences in the market,” said Shelby McAdams, Presidente, Waco Limitada. “By adding products such as Sphinx 3D and the S3000 and CrystalDual cabinets to our casino, we are giving players in San Jose yet another reason to choose Casino Club Colonial.”
the new game would mean less income for the health sector and job losses over time.
According to the governor of the Department of Atlántico Eduardo Verano De la Rosa, there used to be a total of 26 locally run lotteries operating in Colombia, but only six remain of which only four are profitable. Verano de la Rosa also came out in support of the new initiative put forward by the FND and said that it could also lead eventually to a regional version of the popular Baloto game.
Besides the most popular national lottery games of Chance, Baloto, and Super Astro there are also a wide number of games offered by each department. However, the local lottery sector per region is in decline and the products have been losing popularity in each department for over ten years. Tey have also been plagued by a number of corruption scandals. As a result there have been moves by the central government to take lotteries out of the control of local governments and place a number of new games under the control of the Colombian Gaming Control Board.
EGT opens new office in in the Colombia capital, Bogota
Colombia
Euro Games Technology has opened a new office in Bogota, Colombia, after researching on the local market and finding high sales potential for its machines. Te trade and service center is headed by Silviya Marinova – a professional with 12 years of experience in the gaming industry and part of the EGT team for about a year. Elaborating on the reasons that led to the decision for the new establishment of the company
Mrs. Marinova commented: ”Our participation in this year’s edition of FADJA Colombia was a great success and reaffirmed our intentions to step directly into the country. Most of the local casino operators and players have heard about EGT and are familiar with our products’
excellent results in Central America. Tey have seen us at the G2E Vegas and SAGSE Panama exhibitions as well and have followed our growth as a company and portfolio. EGT’s positive image is actually the real foundation of our office in Colombia that will provide sales and rental services, together with technical support and parts.”
Te flagship cabinet of Premier series – the bestseller P-24/24 Up, and the elegant P-27/27 St Slim are among the key models that are expected to be most favoured by the gaming audience in the country. Both cabinets have already been introduced to Colombia, with installations in 2015 in Nao Sun casino in Cartagena, operated by Sun International and through October and November this year, 78 will be supplied, together with 50 Classic Premier slot cabinets, to several casinos of Codere, with which EGT has already been working in Panama and Argentina.
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