News July 2025
Supplier News Digitain appoints CPO
Sportsbook and casino platform provider Digitain has appointed Mary Ann Calleja as the company's new Chief Product Officer. With over twenty years of experience in IT, including a decade in the iGaming industry and more than six years in senior product leadership, Mary Ann brings industry expertise and strategic vision to Digitain. In her new position, Mary Ann will be responsible for shaping Digitain’s product vision and leading the strategic development of its expanding portfolio.
Operator News Hard Rock Ottawa opens
Te Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa is set to open its doors on July 3, bringing a new energy to the city as Canada’s first fully integrated Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Located in the heart of the National Capital Region, the new destination will feature 150 guest rooms, including 22 luxury suites, more than 150,000 square feet of entertainment and gaming space, 1,500 slot machines, up to 40 table games, a high-limit gaming area, 10 restaurants and bars, and a live performance venue with a 2,200 capacity.
YouGov analyses impact of tax rise Operator News
Two-thirds of UK sports bettors say a tax hike on sports betting would force customers to the illegal gambling black market, a shock new survey has found. A new YouGov survey for standards body the Betting and Gaming Council found 65 per cent of regular punters agreed increased taxes, “would make customers turn to unregulated betting sites that don’t have to pay any tax at all.” Te Government is now consulting on a
major change to the way betting and gaming is taxed online, sparking fears it will make betting on sports like racing and football, more expensive. Sporting betting and online gaming
is currently taxed at different rates, but last month the Treasury launched a new consultation titled Te Tax Treatment of Remote Gambling, proposing a single new tax.
Crown Sydney refused slots Operator News
NSW Premier Chris Minns has rejected shaping new legislation to allow Crown’s Sydney casino to install slot machines. Crown’s waterfront casino at Barangaroo opened in 2022 as a VIP, table-only casino, but is believed to have been recently lobbying MPS for the inclusion of slot machines. Te Premier said: “I want to make it clear
that the government is not going to move legislation to allow poker machines at Crown Casino. Tis is a legislative imposition that’s
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Supplier News TCS secures UAE licence
Manufacturer and supplier of live gaming products and services, TCS John Huxley, has been awarded a Gaming- Related Vendor License by the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA) in the United Arab Emirates. GCGRA is the federal body responsible for establishing and regulating the commercial gaming industry in the region. Te licence authorises TCS John Huxley to supply its range of live gaming solutions to licensed commercial gaming operators across the UAE.
Fears for future of legal gaming in Colombia Legislation
Te Colombian Federation of Entrepreneurs in Games of Chance and Luck (Fecoljuegos) has raised concerns regarding Decree 0572, which requires advance collection of withholding tax for 2026. Tis new requirement adds to the existing 19 per cent
VAT on online games introduced earlier in 2025 to address a public order emergency in Catatumbo. Te VAT will remain in effect until the end of 2025 even though the crisis has been resolved. According to the organisation’s statement, Decree 0572
adds to a series of disproportionate fiscal decisions that are suffocating a key industry for the country’s economy and public health. It said “each new tax burden excessively increases operational costs, reduces the sector’s capacity to generate formal employment, limits investment in innovation, and weakens competitiveness in the face of the growth of the illegal market, which is favoured by the lack of equitable conditions.” Fecoljuegos argued the measures were pushing the legal
gaming industry to the brink of collapse that would mean the disappearance of companies, the loss of thousands of direct and indirect jobs, and a “drastic reduction in the resources that, through exploitation rights, are allocated to financing the health of Colombians.”
been put in place in the state for over a decade. It would require a bill, presumably, from the government, to knock over that restriction, and I’m not going to do it.” Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich
said: “With gambling harm on the rise, we need less venues with large poker machine floors, not new ones right on the harbour.” Te move comes as the NSW Government
said it welcomed a NSW Auditor General’s Performance Audit into regulation of gaming machines under the Gaming Machines Act 2001, with both relevant Government agencies accepting its recommendations.
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