Public Gaming March/April 2023

47 PUBLIC GAMING INTERNATIONAL • MARCH/APRIL 2023 H P L A T I N U M I N D U S T R Y L E A D E R S H ABACUS Solutions International Group In-lane Solutions for Innovators www.lotteryeverywhere.com Abacus' mission is to allow consumers to buy lottery tickets everywhere via constant innovation in distribution. Our entire ethos is built around thinking differently and improving the customer experience. Abacus views consumers, retailers, vendors and lotteries, as our customers. We are the first company to try to improve the experience for all of these varied customers simultaneously. Abacus does so by bridging the gaps between the different parties for frictionless ticket sales and gameplay. The future of lottery lies in integrating with existing retailer and consumer infrastructures. We enable this by providing a highly secure transaction gateway between the Retailer and the Lottery CGS. Moving to an in-lane solution (both manned and unmanned) will help eliminate shrink and reduce retail labor costs; reduce debit and credit costs associated to lottery; print a ticket on a retailer’s receipt paper; dispense instant tickets securely through every point of sale; offer digital game play through a mobile or a retailer terminal. Easy, smooth, instant: a virtual terminal in every lane. Our fully managed service offering includes: · Lottery In-Lane, Self-Checkout, and Self-Serve · Instant ticket sales and validation through our gateway · Ticket by ticket delivery of instants where supported by your CGS · Abacus Digital using our mobile application for game selection and gameplay · Sports Betting where supported by your CGS · Online delivery through e-commerce (where allowed by State law) · Abacus games portfolio, including Bill Paid™ · Retailer loyalty solutions, follow-on promotions & second chance draws · Dedicated management portal: control and monitoring of all services and reporting Contact: Terry Presta, Head of Business - North America Email: terry.presta@abacuslottery.com | Telephone 913 908 0635 Contact: Simon Butler, CEO Email: simon.butler@abacuslottery.com | Telephone +44 7768 282638 Carmanah Signs, a Division of STRATACACHE www.carmanahsigns.com Carmanah Signs is the Lottery & Gaming Division of STRATACACHE, the world’s leading provider of intelligent digital signage and in-store marketing technology. Providing best in class retail signage to 55+ lotteries on four continents, Carmanah has over 220,000 networked sign installations at retailers worldwide. The company offers products designed to engage players at retail, including digital sign content management software, media player and display hardware, all-in-one interactive tablets, and jackpot and gaming signs. Carmanah also offers a complete suite of services to help lotteries build and operate effective digital communication platforms, including network hosting, network monitoring, content creation and scheduling, and specialized field services. The Carmanah team is made up of retail technology experts and customer experience strategists with deep roots in lottery. Carmanah is your partner in transforming lottery at retail to deliver exceptional player experiences – growing sales and responsibly raising funds for beneficiaries. EQL Games https://www.eqlgames.com/ Not a Typical Aggregator EQL Games believes the lottery industry should be a marketplace of ever-evolving content and technology innovation. Supported by our modernized tech stack, EQL Games lives this vision by delivering disruptive, first-to-market products - both as an original game studio and as a third-party content aggregator. In 2023 EQL Games will be introducing new digital lottery content on multiple digital lottery platforms to help realize this vision. We enable lotteries to add new and innovative content across both retail and digital channels and thanks to the start of a new partnership, we can now offer Team USA and Olympics content for all products, including scratch tickets. Our first-of-its-kind content aggregator enables EQL Games to deliver innovative content from multiple studios spanning draw, keno, and eInstant products without the potential headache and inefficiencies of dealing with multiple studios who do not understand the market. Inversely, we enable studios to offer content in a market they could not have entered otherwise. EQL Games has four key business segments: EQL Aggregation Technology platform enabling access to a wide variety of game content – both originals and 3rd party – with a single integration and allowing speed to market EQL Technology Flexible, scalable configuration-based game engine and management platform powered by GLI-certified RNG and built on a platform that scales with demand EQL Originals Unique game content created in-house by EQL Games - live sports, TV shows and traditional draw games EQL Licensing Suite of best-in-class-brands delivering compelling and experiential content including NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR and Team USA The EQL Approach to everything we deliver - True Agility. As a third-party, it is our responsibility to make adding our products as seamless as possible. That philosophy is clear in everything we do.

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