Peter DeRaedt (l.), the longtime president of the International Gaming Standards Association, has announced that he has stepped down from his position after more than two decades at the helm of the organization. Vice President Mark Pace will fill in as acting president until a permanent replacement is named.

In the U.S., just about every industry ties back to politics in some form, and gaming is a great example—the impact of its tax revenues make it fairly bipartisan in terms of support, but as Michael Pollock (l.) notes, that doesn’t mean that the resulting policies are always optimal.

In recent years, the sense around the Nevada gaming industry has been that cumbersome approval processes have hampered innovation—as such, the NGCB recently enacted several changes to the approval process, and Lewis Roca attorneys Karl Rutledge, Glenn Light and Salma Granich have the insight to help companies best understand these changes.

Everyone knows that there’s no telling how the future will pan out, but why be a Grinch or Scrooge during this jolly time? Let’s start the new year brimming with optimism!

As we move into 2024, the business of gaming is evolving like never before, and few figures in the industry have a better understanding of these nuances than Rick Arpin (l.), managing director of KPMG’s Las Vegas office.

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CEO, Metropolitan Gaming

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David Lopez, CEO, and Julia Boguslawski, Chief Marketing Officer of gaming supplier AGS.

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Chairman, National Indian Gaming Commission

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President, VICI Properties

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Chile has moved one step closer to debuting a regulated online gaming market following the Chamber of Deputies’ passage of a bill outlining a potential regulatory framework.