48 PUBLIC GAMING INTERNATIONAL • JULY/AUGUST 2026 PULSE Idaho Lottery Returns $90 Million to education, a 20% increase in FY2026 over FY2025 Gaming Laboratories International (GLI®) Welcomes CVC Strategic Opportunities as its First External Investor Brightstar Lottery Signs SevenYear Contract Extension with Washington's Lottery Brightstar Lottery to Enhance Retail Technology for Oregon Lottery via Five-Year Contract Extension Colorado Lottery selects Pollard Banknote as iLottery supplier All Systems Go: Scientific Games Launches New, Advanced Technology for Arizona Lottery Aristocrat Interactive Completes Canadian Lottery Footprint with Loto-Québec Content Launch Aristocrat Interactive announces Daniel O’Donoghue appointed as new COO Massachusetts Lottery to offer online games Pennsylvania Supreme Court outlaws skill games as Skill Games Are Slot Machines, Must Adhere to Pa.’s Gambling Law, State Supreme Court Rules OLG has selected Intralot Canada Ltd., the Canadian subsidiary of the Bally’s Intralot Group, as its new lottery technology solution provider The new lottery technology solution will update OLG's current core systems and position the organization to capitalize on emerging technologies, enhance player experience, faster time-to-market and new, exciting ways to play the lottery, and allowing OLG to keep pace with evolving customer expectations in the everchanging Ontario gaming market. The new lottery technology solution is expected to be in place by 2029. WORLD NEWS Powerball® launch set in the UK for July 21, first drawing to follow Players in the UK will be able to play for the same Powerball jackpot available to players in the United States beginning with the Powerball drawing on Wednesday, July 22. By expanding the player base internationally, Powerball jackpots are expected to grow faster, creating bigger prize opportunities for players – without altering the game’s $2 ticket price or jackpot odds. The expansion, first announced in April through an agreement between the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) and Allwyn UK, will mark the first time a non-U.S. lottery contributes to the Powerball jackpot. Brightstar Lottery Announces Marco Tasso promoted to Chief Operating Officer, Global Lottery Effective July 1, 2026, Marco Tasso will be promoted to a new role of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Global Lottery. Mr. Tasso, currently COO, International and Italy Operations, brings more than 20 years of experience across the company's B2C and B2B businesses and deep end-to-end knowledge of the lottery ecosystem. In his role, Tasso will have responsibility for all of Brightstar's global lottery operations, including technology, product development, marketing, sales and product management, supply chain, customer support and field services. He will report directly to Brightstar CEO, Vince Sadusky. Renato Ascoli will step down as Chief Executive Officer, Global Lottery. Bally’s Intralot announces the extension of its contract with Premier Lotteries Ireland (PLI) through 2034 Fennica Gaming, a subsidiary of Veikkaus, has launched its eInstant game portfolio with Brightstar Lottery in Italy. The collaboration marks a key milestone in Fennica Gaming’s European growth strategy and strengthens its position in one of Europe’s largest regulated gaming markets. Fennica Gaming goes live in Italy with Flutter Entertainment’s Sisal Szrek2Solutions’ Trusted Draw Platform Goes Live for Sizekhaya in South Africa Trusted Audit independently verifies each result by reconstructing the draw and detecting any RNG fault or fraud-related issue. Draws can be verified immediately after generation or later whenever needed. Scientific Games and Hellenic Lotteries (a division of Allwyn) are partnering to bring entertaining instant scratchcard games to Greek players through a new 12-year agreement. Bally’s Intralot signs new lottery contract in Greece with Hellenic Lotteries Hellenic Lotteries was recently awarded the exclusive right to operate and manage Greece’s state lotteries (passive lotteries and instant games) for a period of 12 years, starting as of May 2, 2026. Bally’s Intralot will seamlessly migrate Hellenic Lottery’s existing Bally’s Intralot lottery system to its latest technology stack; and deploy a turnkey lotteries and instant games management solution based on its flagship LotosX Omni ecosystem. Austria confirms plans to open online gambling market to private operators Allwyn names Nikki Vadera as director of scratchcards The Danish gambling regulator has revealed it blocked 172 more unlicensed online gambling websites in 2025 than in 2024 – a rise of 106.2 per cent Online casinos surpass lotteries as largest Danish gambling segment in 2025 Christian Baldauf to be the new Managing Director of Lotto Rheinland-Pfalz Ithuba withdrawals from National Lottery of Uganda licence U.K. unveils social media, online gaming and streaming ban for under-16s
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