TGG signs deal with two Cambodian casinos Inside Asian Gaming · January 21, 2018 at 10:15 pm TGG Takara Gaming Group, the world’s first open-source gaming platform, has announced that it is entering the Southeast Asia Market with two leading local casino groups in Southeast Asia – Golden Crown and Superrich the Best Casino. TGG is an open-source casino gaming platform bringing global game developers and casino operators together. Based in Hong Kong, it currently has 17 partners and 200 … [Read more...]
Constitutional revision, casinos, labor reform top Japan’s agenda as Diet prepares to open Tomohiro Osaki, Japan Times · January 21, 2018 at 10:10 pm After months of turmoil over a snap election, opposition realignment and stalled legislative progress, this year’s regular Diet session was scheduled to kick off Monday. The five-month-long process will see the nation’s lawmakers discuss a slew of important bills in detail for the first time since the end of last year’s ordinary session in June. A fall session of the legislature, convened in … [Read more...]
Casino bosses gamble on bid to lift bet limit Camilla Tominey, Express · January 21, 2018 at 10:04 pm Casinos are calling on the Government to relax rules around high stakes gambling in a bid to attract more “high rollers” to Britain. The Gambling Act 2005 prohibits UK casinos from lending customers money, unlike casinos in the rest of world. Simon Thomas, chief executive of London’s Hippodrome Casino, is among those campaigning for the law to be changed, along with high-end rivals Crown … [Read more...]
Gambling: ministers urged to be bold with curbs on FOBTs Peter Walker, The Guardian · January 21, 2018 at 10:01 pm Campaigners have urged the government to be bold in its response to the problem of fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) amid reports that a consultation on the issue closing this week will recommend slashing the maximum single bet from £100 to £2. The consultation, ordered by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in October, is due to close on Tuesday. It will examine what … [Read more...]
ICE London receives backing of US State Senator CDC Newswire · January 19, 2018 at 9:38 am Senator William Coley II, who is serving his second full term in the Ohio Senate and is the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, has become the latest US opinion former to give his backing to ICE London, the biggest and most international business-to-business gaming technology event in the world. Following gaming thought leader Richard Schuetz's … [Read more...]
Norway: EGBA Complain that NGA is Violating Privacy Rights Luke Haward, CDC Gaming Reports · January 19, 2018 at 8:29 am On Thursday, the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) issued an announcement to the effect that they have requested the Norwegian Data Inspectorate (NDI) to investigate how the Norwegian Gaming Authority (NGA) has been handling player deposits in the country. They claim that the NGA is violating privacy rights of those individuals, and of many others who have not even done any gambling, … [Read more...]
German gambling hall operators must close dozens of branches translated by Luke Haward, CDC Gaming Reports · January 19, 2018 at 7:53 am In Germany, state power is looking to intervene with regard to land-based gambling establishments. According to recent plans revealed by a representative of the Ministry of the Interior for Saxony, 171 of the 449 gambling halls in Saxony are to close. The halls earmarked for closing do not comply with the regulations of the current state gambling law and contracts, which prescribe a minimum … [Read more...]
Dissociative trance: the worst of pathological gambling translated by Luke Haward, CDC Gaming Reports · January 19, 2018 at 7:48 am Experts now say that dissociative trance may be one of the most serious psychological symptoms which can develop in those suffering from pathological or compulsive gambling, especially with regard to online gambling. Even if each type of addiction has specific, defined and unique aspects, all addictions have in common the desire to escape from reality and the inability to manage and tolerate … [Read more...]
Stricter rules on gambling in Tuscany translated by Luke Haward, CDC Gaming Reports · January 19, 2018 at 7:43 am The Tuscany region of Italy has approved new rules against gambling addiction. Heavier penalties, increased training of managers and operators to help tackle the problem, and a minimum distance of five hundred meters between sensitive gambling places and ATMs or businesses that buy gold, are some of the amendments recently approved by a majority of the Regional Council in an attempt to fight … [Read more...]
Macau casino kingpins on the rise in Forbes 2018 Hong Kong Rich List Inside Asian Gaming · January 18, 2018 at 8:43 pm Galaxy Entertainment Group Chairman Lui Che Woo, Melco Resorts Chairman and CEO Lawrence Ho and MGM China Co-Chairperson and Executive Director Pansy Ho are among several Macau casino powerbrokers to see their stocks rise in 2017 according to this year’s Forbes’ Hong Kong Rich List Lui was the biggest winner over the last 12 months, rising three places on the list to number three as his fortune … [Read more...]
