Author: Olivia Cole

Gambling and gaming operator Aristocrat Leisure saw a 28.9% increase in its player purchases online over the six months to March 2021, while people were forced to spend more time at home because of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. As revealed by the company, the increase was registered in all online offerings of the company, including role-playing programs, puzzles and casino-style games. The announcement was made at a time when Aristocrat said the Covid-19 pandemic had resulted in an improvement of physical gambling machines. Furthermore, the results were officially unveiled pretty…

British gambling giant Entain Plc has taken into consideration a possible bid for some assets of William Hill, targeting a rival only several months after rejecting an unsolicited $11-billion takeover offer from MGM Resorts International. Jette Nygaard –Andersen, the operator’s new CEO who took over at the beginning of the year, revealed plans to consider the non-US assets of William Hill that have been put up for sale by the company’s new owner Caesars Entertainment. Some popular WH properties in the UK are also among the non-US assets that are…

The online gambling operator Marathonbet managed to avoid a possible enforcement measure that could have been imposed by the UK advertising regulatory body. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has considered a complaint that was filed against a post and a paid-for advert, both uploaded on Facebook, of the gambling company. The post on Facebook dated August 12th, 2020. It stated that Marathonbet was offering a 0% margin and the best prices on the Champions League. A link to the offer was also included in the Facebook post, as well as…

Endeavour Group, the hotels and liquor spin-off of Woolworths, could take a larger share of the Australian $14-billion poker machine market following the announcement that Crown Resorts and The Star Entertainment move to cashless gambling services. The gambling regulator of New South Wales – the NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority – has revealed that cashless gaming is set to become obligatory at the venues of the two aforementioned casino giants. Both Crown Resorts and The Star Entertainment have agreed to implement special electronic gaming cards linked to players’ identities…

On May 17th, giant Crown Resorts rejected the all-cash acquisition offer of Blackstone Group. The Australian casino giant described the takeover proposal, worth AU$6.5 billion, as too low. The rejected bid, however, does not mean that the company does not consider sale options, as it shared it was seeking more information over a proposed acquisition deal from its local rival Star Entertainment Group. Crown Resorts decided to turn down Blackstone’s takeover bid at a time when the casino company is under fire because of intense scrutiny from Australian gambling regulatory…

Australian gambling operator Crown Resorts has faced calls to make sure it provides better help for gambling addicts who speak languages other than English. This happened after some migrants have recently revealed that visits to Crown Resorts’ casino in Melbourne affected their finances and relationships. According to submissions to the Royal Commission into the casino company in Victoria, language barriers make it hard for gambling venues’ patrons to access support to control their gambling behaviour, including the self-exclusion option that allows customers to suspend themselves from using the casino services.…

Online gambling company Stakers revealed that it has surrendered its operating licence in the UK and has stopped offering its services in the jurisdiction. The operator made the decision to surrender the legal permit after in April a First Tier Tribunal dismissed Stakers’ appeal against the suspension of its licence. Last March, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) started a review into the business of the gambling company under the provisions of Section 116 of the UK Gambling Act 2005 that provides the regulator with the opportunity to check whether a…

The gambling regulatory body of New South Wales (NSW) said it will make a decision whether the new Sydney casino of Crown Resorts will restore its operating licence after it sees a report from an independent monitoring body. However, the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) said that the gambling company is making significant progress when it comes to addressing the serious concerns that the report of Commissioner Patricia Bergin raised. As Casino Guardian reported, a few months ago Crown Resorts was earmarked as unsuitable to hold its gambling licence…

Administrators at BetIndex started the funds’ allocation process to former and current users of the gambling website at a hearing that took place in the Royal Court in Jersey at the beginning of the week. Last month, Begbies Traynor, an insolvency practitioner firm that was officially chosen at the end of March to administer the business of the collapsed sports betting operator, started processing some customer claims against the betting platform operator. BetIndex, the company running Football Index, previously issued a statement to confirm to its former customers that the…

The proposed merger between The Star Entertainment and Crown Resorts will probably put more pressure on state Governments, gambling regulatory bodies and casino operators across Australia, especially when it comes to permanently end the use of junket operators that bring foreign customers to the country’s casinos. The use of junket operators, also known as “junkets”, has already been seriously diminished because of the coronavirus pandemic that resulted in closures of national borders, but the recently published Commissioner Bergin’s inquiry in the state of New South Wales (NSW) once again emphasized…