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Clarion Expands CP Zone at ICE London
Clarion Gaming has confirmed that its expanded Consumer Protection Zone has become a central feature of this month’s ICE London.
“Tis will be the biggest and highest profile presence since the Consumer Protection Zone was introduced to the show-floor in 2018.” Ewa Bakun, Clarion.
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ESTONIA – Olympic Park Casino in Tallinn, Estonia, was the host venue for the world’s largest staff poker tournament ‘King of Stars’ with the cash prize pool of €50’000. Almost 500 Co-Stars from all Olympic Entertainment Group countries took part in the qualifications rounds. The 24 finalists from Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Croatia, were flown to Tallinn on an all-inclusive trip to the Grand Final. The event was streamed via TV Live, so everyone across the group could be part of the game that lasted for eight hours. The trophy was taken home to Slovakia by Luboš Zahumensky.
SPAIN – OKTO has teamed up with Tecnausa, the management systems provider for arcades in Spain, to expand real-time, cashless, and responsible payments for gaming machine players. The OKTO.WALLET solution will be available in over 38,000 machines connected with Tecnausa’s management system gaming halls in Spain. Nacho Frade, OKTO’s Country Manager for Spain, said about the partnership: “Our partnership with Tecnausa is in line with our mission to meet today’s gaming operators’ demand for cashless payments solutions and facilitate player choice.
“It’s clear for us, that operators in Spain are taking a progressive and integrated approach to how they retail entertainment, and that digitalisation and digital payments are helping to drive this. Even more arcades in Spain can now join the digital, cashless mobile-first wave of OKTO and benefit from the digital, universal, open-loop payment solution tailored for the gaming and entertainment industry.”
Lorena Giner, Commercial Director of Tecnausa added: “The integration of our TITO system with OKTO.WALLET represents an essential progress in the fundamental solution that we offer our clients. OKTO provides us with a completely reliable and highly secure cutting-edge technology to improve the customer experience with new digital payment methods without cash movements, a reality that has already materialised in gaming halls.”
MALTA – Tom Horn Gaming has agreed a new strategic partnership in Slovakia with the country’s national lottery operator TIPOS. Through this content link-up, TIPOS has gained access to selected games from Tom Horn Gaming, including the supplier’s 243 Crystal Fruits and The Secret of Ba, as well as a host of all-time top performers such as Hot Blizzard, Hot’n’Fruity or Book of Spells.
The deal is set to boost TIPOS’ online casino offering with its players benefiting hugely from the supplier’s first-class gaming catalogue. Tom Horn’s games will be gradually rolled out on the operator’s site in the coming months, with the first ten hand-picked games already gracing its casino lobby.
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Clarion Gaming has confirmed the make-up of the Consumer Protection Zone (CPZ) a central feature at this month’s ICE London. Te expanded CPZ, which will take-up a new prominent position within close proximity to the central boulevard, will host leading charities comprising Gordon Moody, GamCare, YGAM, Responsible Gambling Council and Gamstop together with suppliers including Future Anthem, Gamblewise, Mindway AI, Casino Guru, TruNarrative, BeBettor, W2 and Crucial Compliance.
Ewa Bakun, Director of Industry Insight and Engagement at Clarion Gaming and the person responsible for overseeing the development of the CPZ confirmed: “Tis will be the biggest and highest profile presence since the Consumer Protection Zone was introduced to the show- floor in 2018. Ten we had eight exhibitors, comprising a mix of technology providers and charities and we are on 14 this year. Te CPZ has always been a popular and buzzing feature on the show-floor, and awareness and interest has grown over the years.
“It has always been very important for me to have a diverse mix of exhibitors, with charities, treatment facilities and not for profit organisations that we gift the space to on one
Gaming industry For Ukraine campagin exceeds £250,000
Ukraine
Te gambling industry’s charity appeal to raise funds for Ukrainians displaced by the Russian military action reached its target of £250,000 within two weeks. As so many generous individual and corporate donors from across the gaming sector have stepped up to support the campaign, organisers decided to keep the GoFundMe campaign running until April, to give even more people the chance to support the Gaming Industry for Ukraine initiative.
Te campaign is providing funding to Choose Love, as the registered charity has the ability and infrastructure to
side and a growing number of commercial organisations, providers of Responsible Gambling technology, tools and solutions, on the other hand – to really showcase the growing investment in this area in terms of technology and product development. We are also making the CPZ more attractive to our visitors who can come to find specific solutions to their Responsible Gambling approaches.”
She added: “I think the biggest testimony to the growing investment has been our fund-raising activities on behalf of the charities featured. We are fund-raising for the third time through the CPZ and have opened the fund to a broader spectrum of companies this year.
“In 2019 we raised £35,000 rising to £65,000 at the last edition of ICE in 2020 and I’m hoping that it will be possible to surpass that total. We’ve had bet365, Kindred, GVC, Videoslots, Sky Betting and Gaming and IMG Arena pledge their £6,000 contribution and anticipate more sponsors to join the effort.
“Looking ahead I would like to see the Consumer Protection Zone continue to grow with more and more solutions being showcased, so it really demonstrates that safer gambling is at the heart of our industry.”
target these donations quickly to a range of NGOs on the ground supporting purely humanitarian efforts.
Some of the campaign's biggest donations came from well- known names in the industry like Betsson (which alone donated £50,000), Spribe OU, Oryx Gaming, Games Global, Microgaming, Funfair Games, Fast Track, FSB, Vixio, Enteractive, OLBG, SBC, Clarion, Just for the Win and Better Collective. But organisers would like to stress how appreciative they are of all the many individuals who have generously donated, and the four and five figure sums given entirely anonymously.
Te campaign will continue to provide donors with Choose Love's updates through LinkedIn and other social channels.
Belgium
Inspired has confirmed the Belgian launch of V-Play Plug & Play (VPP) in partnership with Napoleon Sports & Casino. Inspired’s VPP platform will give Napoleon’s players access to Inspired’s range of Virtual events via a player interface. Steve Rogers, CCO of Virtuals at Inspired. “Napoleon has established itself as one of the front-runners for sports betting in the region and we are delighted to introduce customers to our Virtual Sports products, which are popular throughout Europe.” “Adding their Virtual Sports and innovative V-Play Plug & Play product suite will further improve our offer to our players,” said Tim deBorle, CEO of Napoleon Sports & Casino. “We always want to be innovative and present our players the best sports and gaming entertainment in the safest environment.”
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