GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: James Maida, President & CEO, Gaming Laboratories International

James Maida, the president and CEO of Gaming Laboratories International (GLI), sits down on the GGB Podcast this week to talk about the remarkable development of his company and...

Published July 25, 2016

WEEKLY FEATURE: Fertittas Net $4 Billion for UFC

Brothers Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III (l.) will net some $4 billion from the sale of most of their 80 percent interest in UFC to the partnership of William...

Published July 18, 2016

Former Scientific Games Chairman Buys Inspired Gaming

Lorne Weil (l.), the former leader of Scientific Games, last week led a group to buy Inspired Gaming, a British-based game developer. Weil, who led Scientific Games prior to...

Published July 18, 2016

Ten Years Later, Station Enters Reno

Station Casinos last week announced it would begin the application process to open a casino near the Reno Convention Center. The property was one of two that the company...

Published July 18, 2016

Caesars Sweetens Merger Terms

Shareholders of Caesars Acquisition Co., which owns such assets like Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas (l.), will take a smaller stake in a merger with Caesars Entertainment under a...

Published July 18, 2016

PAGCOR Deep in Debt

Philippine auditors say the country’s gaming regulator, PAGCOR, owes the government PHP15.4 billion (US$325.5 million) due to under-payments from 2011 to 2015. PAGCOR stands by its books. Meanwhile, PhilWeb,...

Published July 18, 2016

Casinos in Israel? Unlikely, Says Analyst

One gaming consultant feels the chance for casinos in Israel is “very low,” at least in the near term. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l.) has been talking up the...

Published July 18, 2016

MGM Gears Up Opposition to Connecticut Casino

Rarely has a gaming company done as much to try to stop a competing casino from happening. However, some say that MGM Resorts is just protecting the turf of...

Published July 18, 2016

Victoria Selected for New B.C. Casino

The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) selected Greater Victoria as the host site of a proposed casino. Specific plans for the proposed casino are yet to come and will...

Published July 18, 2016

FANTINI’S FINANCE: Same Old, Same Old

The elements that contributed to first quarter results are still in place, and it’s doubtful anything will change for the remainder of the year. What does that mean to...

Published July 18, 2016

GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Frank Freedman, Chief Operating Officer, Four Winds Casinos

This week, the GGB Podcast features a discussion with Frank Freedman, the chief operating officer of the Four Winds casinos, owned by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians in...

Published July 18, 2016

WEEKLY FEATURE: Panic in the Philippines

Within hours of taking office, new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (l.) declared he would put an end to online gambling in the country, tighten anti-money laundering laws, and possibly...

Published July 11, 2016

Pechanga Proposes iPoker Bill Amendment

The coalition of the unwilling, gaming tribes led by Pechanga Band Of Luiseño Mission Indians, are determined to stop any iPoker bill from passage that doesn’t ban PokerStars from...

Published July 11, 2016

Spain’s Incredible Shrinking Resort

A planned tourism zone in Barcelona has been cut back to a fraction of its original footprint. Originally called BCN World, it was to have included six theme parks,...

Published July 11, 2016

Bahamas Casino Funding Agreement Reached

Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie announced the local government reached a financing agreement for the nearly finished Baha Mar Casino and Hotel. The $3.5 billion casino development was to...

Published July 11, 2016

Is Vietnam on the Brink?

The Vietnamese government has received the final draft of a casino bill that could lift the ban on nationals gambling in the country’s casinos. If it passes, it could...

Published July 11, 2016

California Tribes Want Card Club Crackdown

Many California gaming tribes are livid at new rules proposed by the Bureau of Gambling Control for the state’s card rooms that don’t go far enough in reining in...

Published July 11, 2016

Apollo Global Pays $2.2B for Diamond Resorts

Apollo Global Management, through its subsidiaries, agreed to pay $2.2 billion to buy Las Vegas-based Diamond Resorts, which, owns 420 luxury timeshare properties in 35 nations, including Polo Towers...

Published July 11, 2016

IGT Organizes for Global Growth

The slots and systems giant is creating a new Administrative Services division to centralize the management and coordination of key operations worldwide headed up by IGT veteran Robert K....

Published July 11, 2016

Taiwan Moving Forward

The legalization of gaming on the outer island of Taiwan was approved in 2009 but progress has been slow ever since. But a second referendum on Penghu is slated...

Published July 4, 2016