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igt announces four-year
extension with svenska
spel for multichannel
poker enhancements
IGT will enhance the suite of inter-
active multichannel poker products
it provides to AB Svenska Spel, the
Company’s lottery customer in Swe-
den and operator of the world’s fifth-
largest ring-fenced market poker site
according to
pokerscout.com.Svenska
Spel is exercising a four-year extension
provided under its contract with IGT
signed as part of a competitive pro-
curement in 2013.
“For a decade now, Svenska Spel has
successfully worked with IGT to offer the
Swedish public a fun and safe interactive
poker product,”
said Lennart Käll, CEO
of Svenska Spel.
“Choosing partners
with innovative, marketing-leading
products is essential to responsibly meet-
ing our customers’ needs.”
“By leveraging industry best practices
and our experience as a successful B2C
operator in the Italian interactive mar-
ket, IGT’s enhanced multichannel suite
of interactive poker products will help
Svenska Spel to reach a broader player
base,”
said Declan Harkin, Senior Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer,
IGT International.
“IGT’s best-in-class
mobile and tablet user interface ensures
that the customer can provide its players
with a safe, responsible, and entertaining
experience anytime, anywhere.”
Under the terms of the contract exten-
sion, IGT will enhance its multichan-
nel suite of interactive poker products
across desktop, Android smartphone,
Android tablet, iPad and iPhone with
a new user-friendly graphical interface,
new game formats, and tournament
variations. Enhancements include
IGT’s U.S. patent-pending Poker
Challenge tournament format, which
appeals to novice and expert play-
ers alike, and Character-Based Cash
Tables. The suite of poker products is
powered by IGT’s new poker solution,
which consists of IGT’s new poker en-
gine and the IGT Connect™ platform.
IGT, as legacy GTECH, began provid-
ing Svenska Spel with fully customiz-
able poker software in 2006 and video
lottery gaming solutions in 1996.
Svenska Spel also uses IGT’s Casino-
link™ system and slot machines at its
land-based casinos.
scientific games
positions itself to
accelerate growth in
its interactive business
Scientific Games Corporation an-
nounces it has designated the Com-
pany’s wholly owned interactive social
gaming subsidiaries, including Drag-
onplay Ltd. and Phantom EFX, LLC,
with the goal of maximizing growth
for the company. The Company will
consider a range of options to solidify
its leadership in this fast growing seg-
ment, including potential new joint
ventures, acquisitions, IPO, and other
growth options.
“Our industry leading investment in
innovation is paying off. Following our
company’s third consecutive quarter of
revenue growth, we see this as a perfect
time to accelerate momentum and
explore additional opportunities to de-
liver greater value from this strong and
rapidly growing segment of our busi-
ness,”
said Kevin Sheehan, CEO and
President of Scientific Games. The
Company’s social gaming business
has generated sequential double-digit
growth in each of the most recent
three quarters and a 68-percent
increase in revenue year-over-year for
the most recent quarter.
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kambi group plc partners
with novomatic lottery
solutions (nls)
Kambi Group plc and NOVOMATIC
Lottery Solutions (NLS), Europe’s
leading gaming technology Group,
have signed an MoU, with the mission
to provide a powerful full-service gam-
ing solution to government regulated
lotteries. The service will combine
NLS’s market leading lottery platform
with Kambi’s state-of-the-art sports
betting service.
This strategic partnership will see
Kambi and NOVOMATIC Lottery
Solutions joining forces to deliver a
unique and modern omni-channel so-
lution, which responds to an increas-
ing demand in the lottery sector, for a
superior user experience in all channels
and most notably in interactive gam-
ing. This service will be co-branded
and marketed under ‘NLS Sports Bet-
ting—Powered by Kambi.’
Kristian Nylén, CEO of Kambi said:
“We are very excited to have formed this
partnership with NLS; NLS is the ideal
partner and share our vision for growth
and innovation within the lottery sec-
tor. The co-branded service will offer a
modern best-in-class solution, creating
a competitive service giving government
regulated lotteries the possibility to make
a leap, especially in interactive gaming
across all verticals. We look forward to
collaborating with NLS and are excited
to reveal ‘NLS Sports Betting—Powered
by Kambi’ at the World Lottery Summit
in Singapore.”
“This alliance is a part of our ‘best of
breed’ philosophy where combining two
modern systems, deploying state-of-the-art
technologies while exercising the inherent
expertise of each, delivers world beating
performance in highly competitive mar-
kets. NLS is very pleased to be working
with Kambi, whom we feel is a like-
minded partner in technology and an
expert in sports betting operations.”
said
NLS’s CEO Frank Cecchini.