Aristocrat Forms Partnership with Wave Crest to Provide Casino Card eWallet
Aristocrat Technologies Inc. has entered into a strategic partnership with Wave Crest Group to launch an open-loop casino card. The project is aimed at improving the user experience for casino patrons and providing casino operators with new payment and loyalty solutions to enhance the overall gaming and leisure experience. The partnership will bring Wave Crest’s cutting-edge casino card technology to Aristocrat’s Oasis 360™ customers across North America. The card works in conjunction with a casino patron’s loyalty club card account and, due to technology integrations between Wave Crest and Aristocrat, combines a seamless payment experience with loyalty systems. The open-loop casino card will be issued by partner banks providing FDIC insurance over casino patron balances and powered by the Wave Crest enterprise payments platform. For more information, visit www.aristocrat-us.com.
Bally Announces Systems and Interactive Agreements with SLS Hotel and Casino
Bally Technologies Inc. announced SLS Hotel & Casino has selected a wide array of Bally’s innovative systems and interactive solutions. The hotel and casino is scheduled to open in the fall of 2014 with more than 1,600 guest rooms, 800 gaming machines and 80 table games. The agreement includes floor-wide deployment of Bally’s iVIEW Display Manager (DM)™ with Elite Bonusing Suite (EBS)™, enabling SLS to offer guests tremendous bonusing events. SLS will use Bally’s ACSC™ slot monitoring, marketing, player-tracking and accounting solutions, as well as the state-of-the-art Promotional Kiosk™ application, the automated dispatch and alert system Service Tracking Manager™ (STM), and Bally Business Intelligence™ to analyze and visualize data. For more information, visit www.ballytech.com.
IGT Signs with Delaware State Lottery to Bring Fan-Favorite VLT Games to Delaware, Releases World’s First Social Casino Index
IGT announced that the company has inked a deal to continue the provision of more than 3,500 Video Lottery Terminals (VLTs) to the state of Delaware. “The great content and highly recognizable titles create a fun, exciting play experience for our players,” said Jim Loque, Delaware State Lottery deputy director. “The collaboration and reliability that we have experienced during our partnership with IGT was the driving factor in the state of Delaware’s recommitment to the company for the next half decade.” This newly minted contract includes terms of five years, with provisions in place that allow for an extension of terms for up to 11 years. A sampling of the titles available to the Delaware lottery will be player favorites such as Stinkin’ Rich™, White Orchid® and Siberian Storm®.
IGT and DoubleDown Casino announced the release of the first-ever social casino index based on more than 6 million people who play DoubleDown Casino games on Facebook online or on a mobile device every month. The index revealed that social casino players in the U.S. are mostly women between the ages of 45 and 55, and women play 30 percent more virtual chips than men per social gaming session. Women were willing to take a chance with up to 10 million virtual chips per session while men did not venture past 7.6 million. Players on the West Coast were luckier in the first half of the year, winning more than 1.7 billion virtual chips in jackpots, while those on the East Coast won 790 million virtual chips. The full U.S. Social Casino Index can be found at doubledowninteractive.com/press. For more information, visit www.IGT.com.
NEWave Installs TINCheck Software at 18 Station Casinos’ Nevada Destinations, Check Prove® Software At Palms Casino Resort
Station Casinos was NEWave’s first customer 20 years ago. Now NEWave has again expanded its relationship with Station Casinos, installing its TINCheck software at 18 Station Casinos gaming and entertainment destinations in Nevada. Earlier this month, NEWave installed its Check Prove® software at those same locations. NEWave’s TINCheck software quickly validates address and tax identification information against USPS and IRS databases for better, faster customer service.
NEWave has installed its Check Prove® software at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. The software sends instant updates of discovered fraudulent checks and/or fraudulent IDs of potential check-cashers, giving real-time security to software users. Check Prove automatically compares checks against business rules, check-cashing history, visual check and customer ID comparisons to known good images. Check Prove has been field-verified to dramatically decrease payroll check fraud. Check Prove is an optional module of NEWave’s award-winning myRevenue Manager™ software suite, a collection of sophisticated software modules that automates myriad processes in the revenue stream across the entire casino operation. For more information, visit www.mynewave.com.
BMM Announces Testlab Expansion
BMM Testlabs announced it will be expanding its testlab facility at the global headquarters in Las Vegas in early 2014. The expansion due to start in January will represent an approximate 65-percent increase in service delivery space and is set to house BMM’s growing math department, additional specialized labs and space to support the growing engineer staff and client roster. Travis Foley, BMM Americas EVP Operations, commented, “less than a year ago, BMM celebrated our grand opening of our new state-of-the-art global headquarters. We knew that we would continue to grow in 2013, but less than a year later we are already set to expand our facilities. This is testament to the growing demand for BMM’s highly qualified staff and the high quality of service we provide.” For more information, visit www.bmm.com.
Acres 4.0’s Kai™ Automates Machine Entry Access Logs in Iowa
Acres 4.0 announced that its customer service and internal communication solution Kai™ has been automating the tedious Machine Entry Access Logs (MEAL Books) at Ameristar Casino Hotel in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Regulations require anyone who opens an electronic gaming device record and document the entry in a MEAL book. These books are kept inside each slot machine at all times and must be changed out or updated with each machine move, conversion or change in asset number. Most regulations require casinos keep each MEAL book for a minimum of one year after the machine is removed from service, and they must be archived in a way that allows for immediate retrieval of information in case of an audit or investigation. Kai records each entry digitally and stores the information in a secured database that’s accessible to regulators, auditors and management from a web-based portal. For more information, visit www.acres4.com.
FutureLogic Expands its Sales Presence in Nevada, Strengthens North American Service with TDN Money Systems
FutureLogic Inc. announced that it has hired John Molinaro as its business development manager for southern Nevada. In addition to his sales and business development efforts in Las Vegas, Molinaro will manage all of FutureLogic’s key corporate accounts. With more than 22 years of gaming experience, he will provide insight for the company’s roll-out of GEN3 Evolution® printer, PromoNet® couponing and TableXchange® printer/scanner solutions into the Las Vegas casinos. Molinaro brings an invaluable level of industry understanding to both FutureLogic sales team and casino operators.
FutureLogic Inc.also announced that it has entered into a service agreement through Dec. 31, 2015, with TDN Money Systems. TDN supplements its outstanding reputation with an extensive reach by conducting business with more than 425 casinos throughout the U.S. As the exclusive service provider for FutureLogic gaming printer products in the eastern states, TDN’s efforts will be concentrated in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island and Ohio. “Much like FutureLogic, TDN’s values are focused on the customer’s needs and requirements, and we consider that the makings for an ideal partnership,” said Nick Micalizzi, FutureLogic’s vice president of sales and marketing, North America. “TDN has been a major contributor to the gaming evolution, and with their customer-friendly and capable staff on our team, I am certain that we will continue to grow our portfolio in the eastern region of the United States.” For more information, visit www.futurelogic-inc.com.
Wynn Resorts, Station Casinos and Churchill Downs Inc. Join AGA Board
The American Gaming Association (AGA) announced that three of the most recognized names in the gaming business, Wynn Resorts, Station Casinos and Churchill Downs Inc., have joined nearly a dozen other top gaming industry companies on the AGA board of directors. The AGA’s 2014 agenda includes widespread promotion of the value the gaming industry provides to local communities, enhancements to the regulatory process that promote greater efficiency and innovation, and a crackdown on entities that engage in gaming in an unlicensed and unregulated manner. For more information, visit www.americangaming.org.
Scientific Games Announces New General Counsel Andrew Tomback, Signs Primary Instant Game Contract with California Lottery
Scientific Games Corporation announced that Andrew E. Tomback has joined the company as senior vice president and general counsel, effective Dec. 1, 2013. Tomback comes to Scientific Games with 25 years of experience in government service, business and private practice. Prior to joining the company, Tomback was a partner at Zuckerman, Spaeder LLP, a premier Washington D.C.-based litigation firm where he was a key litigator in the firm’s New York office. Prior to entering private practice, Tomback was deputy general counsel of the Resolution Trust Corporation, and he also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York.
Scientific Games also announced that it has signed a contract with the California State Lottery to be the primary provider of instant games and associated support services,. The six-year contract, which began Dec. 1, 2013, was awarded to the company following a competitive procurement process and includes options for the California Lottery to extend the contract for up to six additional years. Revenue to Scientific Games will continue to be based on a percentage-of-sales basis. For more information, visit www.scientificgames.com.
DiTronics Installs Transaction Rewards at Chinook Winds Casino Resort
DiTronics Financial Services announced it has installed the company’s new Transaction Rewards product at the Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City, Ore. The Transaction Rewards personalized cash access program is a first-of-its-kind solution that integrates DiTronics Cash Access applications directly with the casino’s loyalty program. The powerful patent-pending features of Transaction Rewards allows operators to personalize cash access transactions and extend Player’s Club Rewards by providing player-centric check cashing limits, automatic discounted transaction fees, redemption of club points and/or comp dollars to buy-down fees along with the awarding of points and comp dollars for completing various transactions. For more information, visit www.ditronics.com.