GGRAsia – Industry Talk

SuzoHapp splits off cash handling biz, focuses on gaming

Jan 19, 2021 Newsdesk Industry Talk, Latest News, Top of the deck, World

SuzoHapp Group says its cash-handling product business is being split from its “core” gaming-, amusement-, and sports betting-technology business. The group flagged the change in a Monday...

G2E Asia 2021 delayed to August from May, amid pandemic

Jan 14, 2021 Newsdesk Industry Talk, Latest News, Macau, Top of the deck

Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia, a casino industry trade fair and conference that prior to the Covid-19 pandemic had been held annually in Macau since 2007, is to push back the date of the 2021 edition...

AGEM announces board of directors for 2021

Jan 14, 2021 Newsdesk Industry Talk, Latest News

The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) has a new slate of officers, the group announced on Wednesday. It includes a new president, David Lucchese, executive vice president for...

MGM Resorts names Jonathan Halkyard CFO

Jan 07, 2021 Newsdesk Industry Talk, Latest News, World

United States-based casino operator MGM Resorts International says it has appointed Jonathan Halkyard (pictured) as the group’s new chief financial officer (CFO). Mr Halkyard will...

Ex-Sci Games president – Greater China leaving LVS board

Dec 28, 2020 Newsdesk Industry Talk, Latest News

Xuan Yan, a board member at United States-based casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS), is to leave the role after fewer than 18 months. A December 23 filing said Mr Yan, a former president –...

Former Sands exec joins MdME in tech lawyer role

Dec 18, 2020 Newsdesk Industry Talk, Latest News

Macau-based MdME Lawyers announced on Thursday of the hiring of Victoria White, a former executive at Macau casino operator Sands China Ltd and at Marina Bay Sands, one of Singapore’s two...

Casino security tech firm Synectics says 2H prospects muted

Dec 16, 2020 Newsdesk Industry Talk, Latest News

United Kingdom-listed Synectics Plc said in a Tuesday update that it expected results in the second half of the group’s financial year ending November 30, to be “broadly similar” to those in...

BMM names ex-Aristocrat executive Navin Goel as COO

Dec 15, 2020 Newsdesk Industry Talk, Latest News, World

Gaming testing laboratory and technical consulting company BMM International LLC, known as BMM Testlabs, says it has appointed Navin Goel (pictured) as chief operations officer (COO). According to a...

Paradise Ent renews supply deal with Jay Chun in-law

Dec 11, 2020 Newsdesk Industry Talk, Latest News

Hong Kong-listed gaming equipment and casino services firm Paradise Entertainment Ltd is renewing for 2021 a “supply framework agreement” with an in-law of Jay Chun, the firm’s chairman...

November AGEM Index up 28pct m-o-m, 17pct y-o-y

Dec 07, 2020 Newsdesk Industry Talk, Latest News

The AGEM Index for stocks of major listed casino equipment suppliers around the world rose by 27.5 percent month-on-month in November, to 631.72 points, a 136.41-point gain from October. The...