September 2008 news:p2-11 News 19/8/08 14:38 Page 10
CASINO NEWS Email your news to
casino@nka.co.uk
Oliver joins the
3M Europe team
‘Think Tank’ set up to
Clampdown on
3M’s Touch
explore technologies
Chinese visitors
Systems sales
team in T
he Chinese authorities are
seeking to slow down the rate
at which mainland residents
Europe has visit, and gamble, in Macau. Further
grown with the B
ally Technologies has formed team, which has tripled in size in
an Innovation Lab that will less than three years.
focus on researching and “I’m thrilled and honoured to lead travel restrictions have been placed
appointment developing new gaming Bally’s Innovation Lab, which will on citizens of mainland China.
of Fernando technologies and features across allow us to capitalise on our R&D Rather than being allowed to stop
Fandiño Oliver as Sales Manager, all the company’s product lines. talent across the globe and over in Macau for up to 14 days if
Spain and Portugal. Fernando is It will seek out accelerate they are breaking a journey, Chinese
responsible for day-to-day account creativity and development and passport holders can now only stay
management of existing and create prototypes deployment of new in Macau for up to seven days, and
prospective customers in the to put in front of technology to our they will no longer be able to enter
gaming, banking and finance, and players and the customers,” Kelly Macau via Hong Kong unless they
industrial markets. company’s explained. have a visa.
With over 20 years sales customers. In parallel, the In May, China limited its residents
experience, Fernando speaks five The aim is to company has to one visa a month to for Macau
languages (Portuguese, Spanish, experiment with futuristic created the Office of the CTO (Chief visits, and then reduced entitlement
English, Catalan and French) and technologies without distracting Technology Officer) around Robert to one visa every two months.
joined 3M from Habasit, where he business units from their day-to-day Luciano, Bally’s CTO, who has a71 Foreign workers in Macau will
was sales manager for Spain and operations. returned to Bally part-time after a soon have to be differentiated from
Portugal with responsibility for the Bryan Kelly, Vice President of medical leave. It will combine the locals by badges or uniforms.
customer service, field sales and Technology, is head of the talents of its in-house senior staff
sales engineering teams dealing Innovation Lab, which is based in with external technology veterans.
directly with Spanish and Portuguese Northern California. “This powerhouse team of
Around the world
OEMs and distributors. Through the Innovation Lab, Kelly company leadership and outside
has been given the task of inspiring technology veterans will allow us to
in four video slots
Looking outside
and synergising development drive even more customer-focused
efforts from Bally’s entire R&D innovation,” Luciano said.
the casino sector
W
eike Gaming has launched
Yokoso Japan (Welcome to
Japan), the third in its
French approve RFIDPoker
‘Around the World’ series of video
Nick Grimshaw slot games.
has been
G
aming Partners International Antibes, and Cercle Clichy Preceded by Uniquely Singapore
appointed (GPI) has received approval Montmartre in Paris – RFIDPoker and Truly Malaysia, and due to be
Director of for RFIDPoker from the pleased poker players and followed by Discovering Macau,
Loyalty French Interior and Finance operators alike, by speeding up and Yokoso Japan is a 25-line, 5-reel,
Marketing by Ministries following two field trials. by securing the game respectively. game running on Windows XP.
casino The system allows instant The RFIDPoker system includes a All four games run on Weike’s two
operator London Clubs International. reading of the pot with RFID chips, 840 chips RFID reader, an Ethernet twin-touch-screen cabinets – the
The move underscores a trend calculates the amount of the rake, connection to a server, operating upright Triton 3,0 and the slant-top
towards top-level gaming industry and ensures data integrity and a software, and RFID chips. It is Cytron 3.0.
hires coming from outside the secure link into the casino’s supplied in a turnkey version, or as
sector, according to Steven Jackson computer system. It boosts a kit that can be retrofitted to any
of specialist recruitment and efficiency, and can generate up to table. Low-frequency 125KHz
executive search consultancy, Sports 30 percent more hands per hour. technology can enable three tables
Recruitment International. In tests conducted in French without any mutual perturbation or
“The approach to executive level casinos – Joa Casino La Siesta in any interference with card shufflers.
recruitment is changing and the
scope of the search has widened,”
Jackson says.
USA: still confused about online gambling
T
wo years after it was passed, and block illegal online gambling Enforcement Clarification and
the Unlawful Internet Gambling transactions. Implementation Act was introduced
Enforcement Act (UIGEA) is An attempt to derail the by Congressman Sessions, which
proving impossible to enforce implementation of regulatory aims to limit the definition of illegal
because the Federal Reserve Board guidance, the Payment Systems gambling to sports betting. It has
and Treasury Department have yet Protection Act, failed in the House met with mixed reactions from
Aspers Northampton, a £10million city-
to set up the regulations that will Financial Services Committee. online poker playing communities
centre casino and leisure venue, aims to
guide American banks and credit Just before the summer recess, and will be examined by legislative
set the benchmark for UK casino design. institutions so that they can identify the Unlawful Internet Gambling committees in September.
10 SEPTEMBER 2008
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58