Scientific Games Corporation has announced that its efforts to guide full development of the instant product category in European markets are making an impact.

The Company received a new three-year contract from Lutrija Bosne i Hercegovine (Lottery), which experienced a 41% increase in instant game retail sales since the collaboration began in 2016. Through forward planning and effective execution of their game plans, many of Scientific Games’ 55 lottery customers in Europe are continuing to register higher than ever sales of instant games despite the challenges of the pandemic.

“We are still in the early phase of our partnership and have already produced tremendous results by applying Scientific Games’ best practices to continuously refine and improve key areas of our instant games. Our plans are to fully develop this product category which was relatively untapped until we began working together,” Edhem Pašukan, Director of Lutrija Bosne i Hercegovine, said.

Scientific Games teams collaborated with the Lottery to maximise the revenue potential of its instant games, restructuring prize packages and the entire game portfolio, and creating new game concepts. One of the favourites among players in Bosnia is Jackpot, a higher price point game with a key symbol match for the main game and three bonus games with 50KM, 100KM or 500KM prizes.

“We congratulate Lutrija Bosne i Hercegovine on its vision and the growth achieved thus far, and we are honored to help guide them toward a fully developed instant product category. As we continue our work with European lotteries to share best practices on game design, portfolio management, logistics and retailer services, Lutrija Bosne i Hercegovine is a great example of the results that can be achieved by partnering with Scientific Games,” John Schulz, Senior VP of Instant Products for Scientific Games, said.

Sportradar, a world-leading supplier of sports integrity solutions, has today signed an MoU with the General Directorate National Police of Bulgaria, creating a strategic partnership to protect and maintain the integrity of sports in the country.

Sportradar Integrity Services has formal working relationships with police and law enforcement agencies across various European countries, including Europol, Austrian and French Federal Police and Spain’s Guardia Civil, amongst others. With today’s agreement, the safeguards around Bulgarian sport are further strengthened.

The collaboration will see the two organisations exchange information, documentation and analysis relating to sporting integrity matters. The aim is to work together to establish best practice for tackling fraud investigations, match-fixing and countering corruption within sports and betting. Furthermore, the General Directorate National Police of Bulgaria and Sportradar will now start to explore other opportunities for joint projects they can collaborate and support each other on.

Andreas Krannich, Managing Director Integrity Services at Sportradar said: “Maintaining the integrity of global sport is our number one priority, and partnerships like this one will help us reduce the threat of betting related corruption.

“Our objective is to establish effective communication channels with the General Directorate National Police in order to swiftly identify and resolve integrity issues facing sport in Bulgaria.”

Chief Commissioner Nikolay Hadzhiev, Director of General Directorate National Police, said: “The Memorandum of Understanding between the General Directorate National Police and Sportradar will contribute to the improvement of cooperation in the field of protection and safeguarding of integrity in sport and sports betting. Bulgarian sport is in a safer position as a result of this cooperation.”

EGT Interactive has expanded its presence on the Serbian iGaming market through a partnership with the local operator Pinnbet.

The partnership will see EGT Interactive’s uniquely themed portfolio with high quality executed video slots, including the hugely popular Almighty Ramses II, Ancient Dynasty, Circus Brilliant, Lucky Hot, Shining Crown and more, added to Pinnbet’s leading offering.

“This deal with a leading operator as Pinnbet will see us expand our reach even further across the Serbian iGaming market. We are excited to provide our vast portfolio of content and look forward to a successful partnership,” Todor Zahariev, Managing Director of EGT Interactive, said.

“We are very happy for the partnership. We expect that together we will make great results on the Serbian market where EGT games are very popular,” Bojana Baskalo, CEO of Pinnbet, said.