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Casino operator reveals US$16.4m deal with Highfield Investment Group.

IGT will unveil its new brand identity at the 2026 Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas, highlighting a new positioning centered on player-focused experiences and operator needs. Built around the principles of being “fluid, frictionless and magnetic,” the new identity marks what the company descri…

Fast Track has launched a native Fast Track AI app for iPhone, now available on the App Store, extending its AI platform beyond desktop use. The app allows users to stay connected to their business, monitor activity, and make commercial decisions from their phones. Fast Track AI has seen strong ado…

TikTok Shop has also tightened its rules on gambling and randomized sales, limiting how sellers can run trading card breaks in the US. TikTok Expands Restrictions on Randomized Card Breaks Since May, the platform has revised its Gambling Policy a number of times. The new rules only permit random te…

The Bet It Drives podcast returns with “The Special One Special,” featuring José Mourinho alongside Yevhen Krazhan, CSO at GR8_TECH and host of the show, filmed through the streets of Madrid. Mourinho is back at Real Madrid as head coach and, early in “The Special One Special,” explains what brough…

Aristocrat Interactive's customer experience solutions division, CXS, has received ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification after an external audit by The British Assessment Bureau. The assessment examined the division's security governance, the security development practices behind its product suites, its…

Jamul Casino Resort has named Chris Kelley as its first Chief Executive Officer, bringing more than 20 years of leadership experience spanning the hospitality, gaming and entertainment sectors. In his new role, Kelley will be responsible for Jamul Casino Resort’s operations and strategic expansion.…

PrizePicks has launched a set of new features in its app with a focus on the new football season, and the headline feature is multi-athlete and multi-team combo picks. Under the update, PrizePicks users can now combine traditional daily fantasy sports picks with predictions on game results. "We've…

iGaming content provider Play’n GO has expanded its presence in Spain after launching its casino content with CasinoBarcelona.es, adding a selection of the supplier’s slot titles to the operator’s online offering. Players at CasinoBarcelona.es can now access Play’n GO games as the Swedish gaming su…

Brazil’s ban on fixed-odds betting and online casinos has triggered legal and fiscal concerns, while data indicate a sharp increase in illegal betting sites following the announcement of Provisional Measure No. 1.394/2026. Monitoring platform Bet Legal identified 428 new illegal betting sites betwe…

Affiliate managers should focus on building relationships, identifying growth opportunities, and developing high-performing partnerships. Yet much of their working day is routinely consumed by navigating complicated systems, searching for information, handling repetitive tasks, and finding manual w…

SBC Summit 2026 gets underway today, Tuesday 29 September, in Lisbon, bringing more than 40,000 betting and iGaming professionals to the Portuguese capital for what organizers are billing as the event’s biggest edition yet. Taking place through October 1 at Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL) and M…

The Global Gaming Expo (G2E) 2026 officially opens its exhibition floor Tuesday in Las Vegas, bringing together more than 25,000 gaming professionals and more than 400 exhibitors from across the global regulated gaming industry. The event, presented by the American Gaming Association (AGA) and orga…

The operator of WanLi Jeju Casino – a foreigner-only gaming venue on the South Korean holiday island of Jeju – is yet to decide on its “grand opening” date, following a soft launch this month. The full opening is subject to the associated and freshly-launched Sheraton Jeju Hotel running “more smoot…

Demand for online gaming in Brazil fell by 20.1 percent week-on-week following the government’s decision to prohibit fixed-odds sports betting and online games nationwide, according to data from artificial intelligence (AI)-driven market analytics platform Blask. The decline in the firm’s Blask Ind…

Bet365 illustrates a rare and clear disconnect: brand search interest declined 28% between January and August 2026, while it generated an estimated $5.23B across the eight months, peaking at $684M in June before easing to $607M in August. The post Bet365’s search volume plunges while 2026 revenue r…

CreditSights expects China’s tighter capital controls to affect Macau high-roller sentiment rather than directly hit GGR. The post China’s tighter capital controls unlikely to directly hit Macau GGR: CreditSights first appeared on Asia Gaming News | AGB - Asia Gaming Brief.

Private investment firm the Visualize Group, which in March clinched the acquisition of BMM Testlabs, a specialist in product compliance testing for the gaming sector, said in a Monday update it had completed its previously-announced deal for eCOGRA. The latter is a United Kingdom-based provider of…