Casino Owner Tilman Fetitta Mulls IPO as Investors Maintain Appetite for New Equity

Casino Owner Tilman Fetitta Mulls IPO as Investors Maintain Appetite for New Equity

by December 2, 2020

Texas billionaire businessman Tilman Fertitta is considering taking a significant part of his casino and dining businesses public to take advantage of the recent rally in equity markets, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.Citing people with knowledge of the matter, the business n ...

Playtech Signs Casino, Live Casino Supply Deal with Casumo

Playtech Signs Casino, Live Casino Supply Deal with Casumo

by December 1, 2020

Online gambling content and technology provider Playtech this week announced a new important commercial partnership as it looks to provide its products with exposure to a wider gambling audience.The company revealed that it has teamed up with Casumo to roll out its Casino an ...

Partypoker Quits Unregulated Markets as Part of Parent GVC’s Ongoing Transformation

Partypoker Quits Unregulated Markets as Part of Parent GVC’s Ongoing Transformation

by December 1, 2020

Online poker room partypoker is set to quit about a dozen unregulated territories as its parent company, GVC Holdings, is revving up preparations to pull out all of its brands from gray markets.Poker news outlet PokerIndustryPRO reported Monday that partypoker account holder ...

Virginia Sports Betting on Track for Pre-Super Bowl Launch

Virginia Sports Betting on Track for Pre-Super Bowl Launch

by December 1, 2020

Sports betting in Virginia is on track to be launched in early 2021, the Virginia Lottery Board’s boss told state lawmakers last week.The Lottery Board received 25 wagering license applications between October 15-31, but the agency has not revealed the names of the sportsboo ...

L.A. County Casinos Plead with Officials to Reverse Closures

L.A. County Casinos Plead with Officials to Reverse Closures

by December 1, 2020

Leaders of cities in Los Angeles County that rely heavily on revenue from their cardrooms have pleaded with the county Board of Supervisors to allow the gaming establishments to remain open with safety precautions.L.A. County’s seven cardrooms were forced to close on Monday a ...

Push Gaming Announces Integration with EveryMatrix’s CasinoEngine

Push Gaming Announces Integration with EveryMatrix’s CasinoEngine

by November 30, 2020

Online casino games maker and supplier of content for the iGaming industry Push Gaming has expanded its presence through a recent supply deal with EveryMatrix’s CasinoEngine integration platform.The deal has seen Push Gaming integrate its titles with CasinoEngine. The games ...

LeoVegas Launches Open Banking Solution for UK Gambling Customers

LeoVegas Launches Open Banking Solution for UK Gambling Customers

by November 30, 2020

In an industry first, online gambling operator LeoVegas has begun rolling out payments via open banking under the EU’s Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), the company confirmed Monday.It said that the move would result in “even more secure and faster payments” for its ...

Tabcorp Faces NSW Fine over Illegal Gambling Inducement

Tabcorp Faces NSW Fine over Illegal Gambling Inducement

by November 30, 2020

Australian gambling operator Tabcorp was slapped with a A$30,000 penalty in New South Wales over violations of the state’s gambling advertising laws.The penalty was issued last week by the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney where Tabcorp pleaded guilty to breaching state a ...

Japan Mulls Nixing Tax on Foreigners’ Casino Winnings

Japan Mulls Nixing Tax on Foreigners’ Casino Winnings

by November 30, 2020

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is set to implement changes to the nation’s planned integrated resorts tax system, the party’s tax investigation chairman, Akira Amari, said last week.The changes will be included in the country’s 2021 tax reform that will be unv ...

Soft2Bet Adds Zombie-Themed Casino to Bulking Portfolio

Soft2Bet Adds Zombie-Themed Casino to Bulking Portfolio

by November 27, 2020

Online casino and sportsbook platform provider Soft2Bet has just unveiled its newest online casino brand that has joined its ever-growing portfolio of operations.Themed around zombies, the new Casombie brand is ready to treat its players to a vast array of online casino game ...

Veikkaus Shuts Temporarily Slot Machines in Many Areas as Virus Surges

Veikkaus Shuts Temporarily Slot Machines in Many Areas as Virus Surges

by November 27, 2020

Finland’s state-run gambling monopoly, Veikkaus, said Thursday that it would temporarily close gaming arcades and slot machines in a number of areas around the Scandinavian nation to help curb the advance of Covid-19.The gambling operator has begun closing gaming arcades and ...

Single-Event Betting Could Finally Be Coming to Canada

Single-Event Betting Could Finally Be Coming to Canada

by November 27, 2020

Canada’s federal government is making moves to legalize single-event betting as the practice is heating up in neighboring US and as the nation’s gambling industry is grappling with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.Canadian Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lamet ...

Aurum Signature Studios Joins Microgaming’s Independent Studios Network

Aurum Signature Studios Joins Microgaming’s Independent Studios Network

by November 27, 2020

Online casino content provider Microgaming this week announced that it has welcomed Aurum Signature Studios to its ever-growing network of independent game developers.The studio is set to become Microgaming’s first dedicated provider of bespoke online slots and to create game ...

Wazdan Casino Content Now Certified in Spain

Wazdan Casino Content Now Certified in Spain

by November 26, 2020

Online casino games developer and supplier Wazdan is set to expand into the Spanish iGaming market after its content has received full certification from Spain’s gambling regulator, Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ).Following the certification, the company will ...

NetBet Expands Live Casino Library with Pragmatic Play Titles

NetBet Expands Live Casino Library with Pragmatic Play Titles

by November 26, 2020

Pragmatic Play’s Live Casino range has gone live with NetBet as part of a recently signed deal between the content provider and the online casino and sportsbook operator.The partnership between the two companies has seen NetBet enlarge its existing live dealer offering with ...