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Nektan Gets New CEO, Leigh Nissim
Like any major industry, different executives come and go in the online gambling world. Nektan has recently experienced this themselves with a new CEO. After Gary Shaw was put in place as the interim CEO for a period of time, Leigh Nissim has been named the new CEO of the company. Shaw has been moved to the Director of Strategy post and is still with them. Nissim's Experience Nissim has a great amount of experience with over 17 years in the business.
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NetEnt Makes Deal With Codere for Mexican Entry
The expansion of Net Entertainment into new regulated markets has been a big part of the news cycle for 2015 and 2016, and as we prepare to kick off 2017, they have announced yet another deal. Thanks to an agreement with Codere, Net Entertainment will be entering Mexico with their full range of titles. -
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NetEnt Releases Secrets of Christmas Online Slot
Net Entertainment has had a lot of different releases so far in 2016, and they are capping it off with a timely holiday title. Their new Secrets of Christmas online slot gives players an opportunity to play across five reels, three rows and 25 paylines of Christmas-themed action with a chance to win a little gift of their own for the holidays. Details on This Slot This new Net Ent slot gives players a few different ways to win some sizable payouts. -
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Play N Go to Release New Troll Hunters Slot
Whenever most players think of viking-themed slots, they typically thing of big, burly men fighting either each other or some type of monster or foe. In Play N Go's new Troll Hunters video slot, the setup for the plot is a bit different, and this gives the game a unique starting point that helps to really drive the slot as a whole. Three Viking Women The main premise of this game is that the men have gone out hunting in a viking village, and it's up to the women left behind to save the day.
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Two BEGE Awards Won by NYX Gaming Group
Awards ceremonies in the online gambling world might not seem like a big deal, but they're a critical part of the self-regulation of the industry. The point is that there are no international guidelines because each country sets their own standards for regulation, so awards ceremonies like the BEGE Awards helps to distinguish the best companies out there at any given time. -
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Neteller and Skrill Dropping Support for 100 Countries
In the online gambling world, particularly in the payments sector, the Paysafe Group's Skrill and Neteller options are considered two of the most popular banking options available. These electronic wallets make payments really easy for tons of people, but now this won't necessarily be the case. -
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SkillOnNet Makes Deal With Blueprint Gaming
The way the online casino software side of the industry is set up right now is much different from how it was 10 to 15 years ago. Back then, each online casino would usually have an exclusive contract with a single software provider, and the idea was that they would only offer up the games and software from that one developer. -
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NYX OGS Platform Runing With Rank Group
The Rank Group is based in the United Kingdom and listed on the London Stock Exchange, and they're known for operating a number of land-based operations along with their online counterparts. -
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Big Royal Panda Live Blackjack Payout
By pure volume of the number of bets made, we see more wagers made in slots than anything else, and that's why we see more news stories about big slot winners than other games. However, Royal Panda Casino has helped one lucky player to buck that trend in the form of an upper five-figure win at their live dealer blackjack game. How the Win Happened A man named Michael from the Netherlands was playing at the exclusive Royal Panda Casino live dealer blackjack tables. -
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Spinit Casino Launches With Over 1,200 Games
New online casinos seem to launch pretty often, but there are a lot of them that have failed in the long run as well. The newest one is Spinit Casino, and it's looking like this could be a great place to play for players who are looking for something fresh. They are owned by Genesis Global, a company known for running great sites like Casino Cruise, and they have licenses in both Malta and the United Kingdom. -
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Australia Introduces New Anti-Online Gambling Bill
A new bill has been introduced in Australia that could have some important implications for online gambling in the country. The Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill of 2016 was introduced by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield, and its goal is to limit certain types of online gambling operations and to give the government more power over the online gambling sector. -
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NYX Gaming Group Signs Deal With Olympic Entertainment
The NYX Gaming Group has made a lot of moves in 2016. They've released some new games, but we don't think that's really the big news for them this year. Instead, we think it's all of the big deals they have made for content distribution through their OGS (Open Gaming System) platform. They've added to this list recently with a new agreement with Olympic Entertainment Group. How This New Deal Works OEG is an international corporation that focuses on different types of gaming. -
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Play'N Go Signs New Deal With Betclic Everest
Play'N Go has been one of those companies that has gotten more and more attention as time has went on because of the quality of their product. They put out some really great games, particularly online slots, and quality titles like this just aren't ignored in this industry.
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Endemol Shine Content Coming to NYX Platform
A new deal has seen the NYX Gaming Group's OGS platform receive even more games. This time, they're coming from a company called Endemol Shine, and they are known for producing high-quality games. They are set to release their first title on the OGS platform next month, and it's going to be Oliver Twist. -
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No Merger for Amaya and William Hill
Over the past several months, we have heard everything from rumors to press releases about talks involving a potential merger between the Amaya Gaming Group and William Hill. These two entities combining would result in the largest online gambling company in the world.
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Vegas Crest Casino Adds Habanero Systems Slots
Online slots are by far the most popular type of online casino game in the world, and this is both by the total number of titles available and the number of people wagering on those games. Vegas Crest Casino is a site that really knows the importance of staying fresh with new titles, and they have added the portfolio of Habanero Systems online slots along these lines. -
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Evolution Gaming Signs Cherry Deal for Live Casino
Cherry iGaming is the number one Scandinavian online gambling operator, and they've actually been named the Online Gaming Operator of the Year at the IGAs for the past three years the awards have been held, which is a pretty big deal. Evolution Gaming is equally perched atop the live dealer online casino game provider sector of the industry. -
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Blackjack Expert Ken Smith Interviewed by LCB
Blackjack is a game that has quite a few living masters, and Ken Smith is one of them. He had an atypical path to where he is now, and he recently talked about his history in the industry and with the game of blackjack in an interview he conducted with LatestCasinoBonuses.com. -
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NetEnt Hits the Italian Retail Market With Gauselmann
In Italy, online gambling and retail gaming are not often thought of as being a part of the same industry in many cases. They are regulated a bit differently, and there isn't usually a lot of crossover between the two. Net Entertainment has taken a step to change that with a new deal that sees them entering the retail market. -
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Kahnawake Pulls Out of Unregulated US Markets
Kahnawake has been one of the jurisdictions that players from unregulated US markets could count on in the past in terms of allowing their licensees to operate freely while also providing accountability. -
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Bitcasino.io Adds 120 Pragmatic Play Games
In the online casino industry, the number of titles that a site has usually comes down to how many different software providers it has content distribution deals with. Bitcoin.io already has games from a number of providers thanks to the Coingaming platform, and now they are adding even more. -
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NYX Wins Top Digital Gaming Innovator Award
Awards ceremonies are an important part of the online gambling industry as a whole. The reason for this is that it provides clear, independent and public recognition of which companies are performing the best in the industry, and that's something very much needed in an industry with no international standards that are adopted by most countries. -
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Microgaming Wins Big at 2016 Global Gaming Awards
It's no secret that Microgaming is considered by many to be the main online casino software provider in today's industry, and they also have major software provisions in other aspects of the Internet gambling world as a whole. -
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First Regulated Live Dealer Casino for the US: NYX/Ezugi
The United States has seen a fairly limited amount of success in regulating the online gambling market. A large part of this is because there are 50 different states, and each of them has to regulate the market individually. -
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NYX Starts GeoComply Partnership for Indoor Mobile
It's no secret to anyone who has been paying attention that the mobile side of the gambling world has been expanding rapidly for several years. While many people tend to focus on the impact for mobile online casinos, one area that has been impacted in a major way is mobile access for land-based casinos. -
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Anonymous ZCoin Cryptocurrency Launching
In recent years, the use of anonymous cryptocurrencies has increased drastically in the online gambling industry. Dealing in cryptocurrencies has become more popular as the need for privacy online has become more evident.
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Yggdrasil Expanding into Romanian Market
Recently, the Romanian National Gambling Office has granted Yggdrasil Gaming two licenses that allow the company to supply licensed operators with their slot titles. At the moment, Yggdrasil's titles will be made available to all operators that have a Romania Category 1 license. -
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Spilleren Casino Launches This September
This month, the Spilleren Casino has launched online. The casino is licensed to operate in the jurisdictions of Malta and Curacao, and is operated by EveryMatrix Ltd. Spilleren is open to players from England, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands. The site is currently offering a welcome bonus to new players: €900 plus 500 free spins. -
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Pariplay Now on Microgaming Quickfire Platform
Online scratch cards aren't really seen as one of the most popular forms of gambling in terms of the number of games that are available overall in online casinos. However, this is something that Pariplay specializes in, and they have been providing these games through all kinds of outlets since 2010. -
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Tain Receives Romanian Online Gambling License
Romania has been a fairly active online gambling jurisdiction inside of the past year after getting their regulatory body going with a number of licenses being awarded here and there to select companies. Tain is the most recent company to be added to that list, and they will now be able to offer their online casino platform to operators inside of the country.
