49 PUBLIC GAMING INTERNATIONAL • MAY/JUNE 2024 NeoGames, a technology- driven provider of endto-end iGaming and iLottery solutions, has made a key appointment to the leadership team of its iLottery business unit with Christopher Shaban becoming Managing Director, iLottery. This is the latest phase of NeoGames’ organizational restructure to support its upcoming plans as the company progresses towards the closing of its acquisition by Aristocrat, expected in the second quarter of fiscal year 2024. With his appointment effective immediately, Shaban will oversee all iLottery activity for the NeoGames Group globally, including new business, customer growth, the continued global expansion of NeoGames’ iLottery solution, and lastly, NeoGames Studio, the Company’s in-house game studio. Shaban brings a wealth of knowledge to the position with over 27 years of experience in the global lottery industry. He joined NeoGames in 2021 in the role of EVP Global Business and Customer Development for the Company’s iLottery business. Moti Malul, Chief Executive Officer at NeoGames, said: “Chris is hugely respected within the lottery industry and his track record speaks for itself. I am thrilled about his appointment and look forward to seeing him drive us forward in our iLottery business.” Christopher Shaban, Managing Director, iLottery, at NeoGames, added: “It has been a few wonderful years with NeoGames and I am excited to continue in this new role as Managing Director, iLottery. Working together with the extremely talented people in our company, we are poised to expand our efforts under Aristocrat to best support our global lottery customers on their interactive journey.” NeoGames extends agreement with Czech market leader, SAZKA NeoGames announced a three-year contract extension with its long-standing Czech lottery customer, SAZKA, with the agreement to remain in effect until the end of 2028. SAZKA, a part of Allwyn, is a multi-national lottery operator with leading market positions in the Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States (Illinois). Allwyn today announced the appointment of Ifor Evans as its new Group Chief Technology Officer La Française des Jeux (FDJ) announces its revenue up 7% for the 1st quarter of 2024 La Francaise des Jeux FDJ Reappoints Stéphane Pallez as Chair & CEO, Unveils Share Buyback Kindred’s Journey Towards Zero: Q1 revenue from high-risk players The first quarter of 2024 saw a slight increase in revenue from high-risk players compared to the final quarter of 2023, with 3.2 per cent of Gross winnings revenue from this group of players. Kindred remains fully dedicated to lowering this share of revenue and continues to see a positive behaviour change from players after interventions. Allwyn begins next phase of retail investment with new National Lottery PPOS rollout trial Brand new National Lottery permanent point of sale (PPOS) has started hitting the walls, floors and counter tops of a small number of UK National Lottery retailers, as Allwyn begins testing the rollout of the specially designed kit. Allwyn is trialling the rollout of modernised kit in a number of stores ahead of phased deployment. Strong accessibility and green credentials will help deliver on Allwyn’s social value commitments. As the latest stage in Allwyn’s retail investment, the new kit will help drive in-store sales. Germany: State Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg offers virtual slot machine games under brand “erwin”. This makes the company the first German state lottery company in this segment “We believe it is important that a state provider also offers those interested in gambling a legal and reliable offer in this segment,” emphasizes Georg Wacker, Managing Director of Staatliche TotoLotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg. With the product expansion, the company is responding to the changing needs of its customers. There are currently around 200 different games available at www.lotto-bw.de/erwin. The varied offering ranges from “Book of Games” to “Fruit Games” and is intended to be continually expanded. To this end, Staatliche Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg works with various international game studios. The company takes its responsibility towards its customers very seriously, and the protection of young people and players is particularly important. The games are viewed and selected extremely carefully according to different criteria. In addition, every customer who wants to use the new online gaming offering must first register and identify themselves online. With the support of the Gambling Research Center at the University of Hohenheim, an automated system for detecting problematic gambling behavior was also developed. The Spillemyndigheden: Danish Gambling Authority’s efforts against illegal gambling report released Inspired Entertainment is pleased to announce the launch of its Virtual Sports products in Spain with Luckia Gaming Laboratories International (GLI®) First to Certify Betting Systems for Brazil's Fixed-Odds Lotteries The accreditation means GLI is authorized to test and certify equipment, programs, instruments, and devices that comprise betting systems, live game studios, and online games to be used by fixed-odds lottery operators for the recently enacted national regulatory regime of Brazil. Poland’s National Lottery Extends Partnership with Scientific Games Following Strong Growth Over the past three years (2020 to 2023), sales of scratch games in Poland have grown 39%. Totalizator Sportowy is among the top-performing instant game lotteries in Europe. “We’ve chosen to extend our instant games agreement with Scientific Games so that we can continue to responsibly grow this product category and generate proceeds for Polish sport and culture,” said Katarzyna Woznica-Borkowska, Manager of Instant Products for Totalizator Sportowy. Most recently, Scientific Games collaborated with Totalizator Sportowy on the I Love Big Cash game produced with the company’s advanced Dimension technology which enhances the play experience with three-dimensional, reflection-atdifferent-angle refractions above and below the game graphics. Scientific Games has provided instant games to Totalizator Sportowy for more than 20 years. Currently, the company provides instant games to 114 government-regulated lotteries around the world, including 50 European lotteries. UK Gambling Commission directs bet365 to pay $738K for anti-money laundering, social responsibility failures Fennica Gaming expands to a new vertical - Fennica Gaming’s VLT content available now through IGT’s VLT -platform Fennica Gaming and IGT have agreed on a supply of VLT games on IGT’s platform. This means that Fennica Gaming’s VLT content
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