Bally’s Intralot secures 15-year pokies monitoring licence in Victoria

Bally’s Intralot is expanding its footprint successful Australia aft securing a cardinal relation successful Victoria’s evolving gambling regularisation landscape, winning a caller 15-year licence to oversee physics gaming machines (EGMs), commonly known arsenic “pokies”.

Through its Australian subsidiary, Intralot Gaming Services (IGS), the institution will take connected regulatory monitoring responsibilities successful a marketplace facing heightened transparency and accountability requirements.

The determination forms portion of broader reforms underway successful Victoria, aimed astatine strengthening subordinate protection, improving transaction oversight and expanding manufacture accountability.

Speaking to Neos Kosmos, IGS main enforcement Marios Mitromaras said helium was “extremely proud” of the company’s success successful securing the declaration for what helium described arsenic a highly demanding authorities project.

Under the agreement, which comes into effect connected 16 August 2027, IGS will oversee astir 26,300 EGMs connected to a cardinal monitoring system. The system is designed to guarantee the ongoing integrity of gaming transactions crossed venues passim the state.

It will besides make information to support regulatory compliance, harm minimisation, taxation and research.

As portion of the licence, IGS will develop, run and support a statewide pre-commitment system, allowing players to acceptable limits connected their gambling activity. The system will use crossed each EGMs successful Victoria, including 2,628 machines astatine Melbourne’s casino.

The institution will rotation retired a next-generation monitoring level built connected unreality architecture, featuring real-time reporting, precocious information analytics, high-level cybersecurity protections and scalable infrastructure designed to conscionable evolving regulatory demands. Future-ready connectivity will besides let seamless integration with venues, manufacturers and regulatory systems.

Group CEO Robeson Reeves described the licence arsenic “a important milestone” and a large concern successful Victoria’s gaming technology infrastructure.

“We look guardant to working with the Victorian Government, the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission, and different cardinal stakeholders to present a harmless and transparent monitoring system that ensures integrity and subordinate protection,” helium said.

IGS and Bally’s Intralot are expected to statesman readying and stakeholder engagement successful the coming months to guarantee a smooth transition up of the licence commencement.

Intralot Gaming Services Pty Ltd is simply a wholly owned subsidiary of Intralot Australia Pty Ltd, which successful turn is afloat owned by Bally’s Intralot Group.