This comes at a time when the company is embarking on a series of localized expansions in specific markets as it wants to fortify its presence in what it sees as important geolocations and achieve a better presence in those jurisdictions.

IGT Commits to Further Growth in Panama and LatAm

Apart from focusing on the market in Panama, IGT will similarly seek to explore new growth opportunities in Latin America in general. Commenting on this fresh milestone, IGT of SVP Sales Canada, Central and South America, David Flinn, said:

In creating a formal IGT presence in Panama, we’re positioned to grow our footprint in the region and enable our customers to reap the many benefits of IGT’s vast games and solutions portfolio.

IGT’s David Flinn

Flinn spoke of the regional significance of the move as well, highlighting the new technological solutions that local partners would be able to benefit from, including the cloud-based Floor Manager system that is developed by IGT with the determination to bring better efficiencies to casino floors and allow partner businesses to respond to player needs as well as their content preferences.

The launch of a local entity does not happen in a vacuum either, as the company has already laid out a roadmap as to what new strategic steps it would take to expand in the country as well. There are many games that will be forthcoming, IGT assures, including Egyptian Link and Prosperity Link, as well as the company’s PeakDual27 and PeakSlant49 cabinets, which will effectively allow the games to be deployed on the market.

Deploying Powerful and Tailored Solutions Locally

IGT is also planning for the deployment of the USwitch Black Edition game pack through its PeakSlant32 cabinet, offering local gamers and businesses some of the truly best solutions that the company has developed over the past years. IGT’s senior director of strategic accounts for the Latin American region, Jessica Luna, was similarly pleased with the opportunities provided by the new expansion.

Luna confirmed that the company is looking to secure new partnership opportunities in Panama and is working to create a roadmap that will allow the company’s diverse portfolio of high-performing solutions that will be further tailored to meet specific regional and player needs. All in all, IGT is poised to benefit from rapid growth in the Latin American region with Panama proving a truly important stepping-stone to that end.

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Alberta had been trying to set up a dedicated online gambling website for years and it actually succeeded back in 2020, when the provincial regulator, the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission (AGLCC), greenlit the arrival of PlayAlberta. The process went smoothly, but the aftermath was riven with challenges.

Not Everyone Happy about the Arrival of Online Gambling in Alberta

The dedicated online casino platform ruffled some feathers, and namely those of Tsuu T’ina Gaming, which saw the platform as illegal.

What followed was a lawsuit to challenge the legality of the platform and the portal, but this may now be put to rest as a second court – the Alberta Court of Appeal – dismissed the claim, arguing that it was well within the regulator’s remit and the government to launch this website.

Tsuu T’ina Gaming decided to challenge PlayAlberta and AGLCC after a previous ruling on February 24, 2022, by Justice Robert Armstrong sided with the regulator. Tsuu T’ina Gaming tried to convince the courts that the AGLCC had no statutory authority to launch its own dedicated gambling website and operate it.

The previous ruling by Justice Armstrong was challenged once again in the Court of Appeal but to no avail. The case dates back to April 2021, when the Tsuut’ina Nation and Stoney Nakoda First Nation decided to launch legal proceedings against the website and the provincial regulator and the government, claiming that PlayAlberta was in fact an “unauthorized entity.”

The Court of Appeal motivated this decision by arguing that the regulator may conduct and manage provincial lotteries on behalf of the government. “In summary, a province is entitled to conduct and manage a provincially authorized lottery scheme. Such a scheme is authorized in Alberta as a ‘provincial lottery,” the ruling read, which means PlayAlberta will carry on despite opposition against it.

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