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App Store and Google Play Store Contents April 2019 SOUTH AMERICA EMEA CHILE P8 ANDORRA P12 The Chilean Gaming Control Board says the Barrière has filed a lawsuit against The relicensing of 14 casinos will be very different Andorran Gaming Control Board while Genting to the tender for the municipal licences and Partouche raise criminal complaints Samson House, BRAZIL P10 FRANCE P14 Manchester Road, Manchester M29 7BR, The government plans to decide upon the While many of France’s 201 casinos posted a United Kingdom most viable mode for sports betting in the slight rise in revenues in 2018 more than half of first half of 2019 as part of Law 13,756/2018 the country’s gaming floors are in decline PUERTO RICO P11 GERMANY P18 New rules on slots are part of a much wider German group Baden-Württembergische draft of new measures designed to provide Spielbanken improved its earnings in the US$2bn in tax relief over five years. financial year 2018 by 4.7 per cent World Partner to Clarion Events G3Newswire.com delivers NORTH AMERICA ASIA & OCEANIA daily international gaming industry news and US P20 MACAU P26 information, with the G3Newswire newsletter 15 states led by New Jersey, New Hampshire, Analysts have revised their position on Macau’s circulated three times per Pennsylvania and Michigan will take legal casino revenues believing now that GGR will week to a 8,500+ database action over DoJ interpretation of Wire Act grow now rather than shrink in 2019 of gaming industry influencers NEW JERSEY P22 AUSTRALIA P28 New Jersey's sports books have taken nearly Queensland has launched its tender for a $2bn on sporting events in their first nine second casino to be built on the Gold Coast months since with February with around 20 casino groups interested RHODE ISLAND P24 JAPAN P28 Rhode Island is digging deep into its Aruze Gaming founder, Kazuo Okada, has been Constitution to find a method to authorise released by Hong Kong police without charge online sports betting without a public vote and has taken to social media for support www.G3Newswire.com Reports Report: US Sports betting Denmark Native American Tribes and Betting in Africa: emerging Degree 53 - User Experience: Market Report: Sports Betting in the US markets and regulatory maps Leading by Design A great gambling role model? Reports P32 Interactive P54 Interactive P68 Report P42 Crucial to an understanding of Phil Horne, CEO of SG Gaming Last year, UX experts, Degree 53, Denmark partially liberalised its how sports betting will develop UK, speak to G3 at ICE London reviewed the top 10 UK online gaming market in 2012 introducing in the future is the role Native about the solutions coming to bookmakers horse racing new gaming legislation just in time American Tribes already play market in April to counter the landing pages. MD Andrew to respond to the online gaming within the US market effects of stakes changes Daniels discusses the findings market demands NEWSWIRE / INTERACTIVE / MARKET DATA P3 Lewis Pek Editor Comment April 2019 Finishing late into the evening at a conference event last year, I walked back to my hotel agreeing to “one for the road” at the bar. Beer in hand, my colleague wanted a cigarette so we moved out to the terrace where there was a single table with five chairs. Three were occupied, but we were graciously welcomed to sit with the party of smokers. The trio introduced themselves as a Lebanese business fixer, a Belgian digital expert and a Russian model/actress. There was a polite exchange of details before the two gentleman returned to their conversation concerning the cryptocurrency conference they’d both attended that day. The business fixer explained that he was a merchant selling goods between countries and was interested in the ability of cryptocurrency as a universal currency. He was also currently in the market to sell his multi-million dollar apartment and would like to use cryptocurrency to avoid paying tax. The digital expert explained his role in acquiring large percentage shares of I WAS GENUINELY TAKEN ABACK AS TO HOW THE CONVERSATION WAS SO NORMAL, BUT WAS DISCUSSING SUCH NEFARIOUS ISSUES startups looking to create an initial coin offering to raise capital. His firm invests in fledgling companies with a view that few would actually survive the process beyond a few months, but viewed the losses versus the spectacular returns a worthy investment. Both men swapped business cards with a view to helping each other with their difficulties in the future. What was surprising to me about this exchange, not simply that both were unconcerned about talking about such issues in front of strangers, was the scale of the financial transactions they were discussing and the relative ease with which such money transfers could be facilitated through cryptocurrencies. I guess that’s naive of me, but I was genuinely taken aback as to how the conversation was so normal, but was discussing such nefarious issues. I had forgotten completely about the encounter until I read Phil Martin’s interview with KamaGames’ CEO, Andrey Kuznetsov, who frankly talks about his company’s involvement with an ICO in 2018. I’m not sure if our digital expert friend was in touch with KamaGames, but it certainly sounds like it. I’m sure that there are billions of perfectly legal transactions taking place using cryptocurrency and we’ve expounded on the benefits of blockchain within gaming in the past, but remembering that conversation still worries me about the direction of travel. 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Afirmó que el nuevo proceso de licenciación New Round of Chilean Gaming Licences será más atractivo para los operadores, ya que no habrá condiciones especiales ni ofertas mínimas Head of the Chilean Gaming Control Board (SJC) or location different from where the casino is especificadas por los gobiernos municipales. Vivien Villagrán (above) has reassured potential currently operating. “The process should be investors that the relicensing of 14 casinos will more competitive," she said, referring to the Los casinos de Uruguay que no den parte de be very different to the tender for the municipal recent tender for seven licenses for the casinos.