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SkyCity Entertainment Group will give interested parties due diligence information on the entire business, though its chair told shareholders that no new or improved proposal has arrived since the two it rejected. The same morning its chief executive said it bid for two online casino licences rather than three to stay within its return targets.

SkyCity Entertainment Group has signed a binding agreement to sell The Grand Hotel in Auckland for NZ$221 million, about $124 million, to two companies from a privately owned property group. With the office sale already settled, it says it has now raised more from asset sales than it promised shareholders, but the deal still needs Overseas Investment Office consent.

The Department of Internal Affairs has named the 11 entities that won New Zealand's 15 rights to apply for an online casino licence, at a single price of NZ$15 million each. SkyCity, Stake, TAB New Zealand and companies linked to Super Group and Entain are on the list, but none of them holds a licence yet.

The Department of Internal Affairs opened bidding on 29 September for the right to apply for one of up to 15 online casino licences, with a reserve price it will never disclose and no idea, it says, of what the auction will raise. Alongside it, a draft testing regime spells out what the winners will have to prove about their games and platforms.

The Department of Internal Affairs says three-quarters of the country's 32 pokie trusts were non-compliant, a third engaged in deliberate "creative accounting", and NZ$11.5m has so far been committed back to communities. One trust lost its licence for six days.

The Department of Internal Affairs' minimum standards for the licensed online casino market, in force since 8 July, require cryptographically secure random-number generation, continuous monitoring, and a ban on games that adapt their outcomes to a player's results. As the department works towards a licensing auction, the rules put the mathematics behind online pokies on the record.

The settlement lands on 1 September and takes SkyCity a third of the way through a NZ$200m divestment programme designed to bring down debt after a bruising two years.

After years of regulatory grey area, New Zealand has passed legislation that will bring offshore online casino operators to heel and create one of the Asia-Pacific region's most anticipated new regulated markets.

The New Zealand government has confirmed a ban on credit card deposits for its forthcoming regulated online casino market, a major concession aimed at securing parliamentary support for the Online Casino Bill.

In a landmark move for New Zealand gambling regulation, the government has introduced an amendment to its Online Casino Gambling Bill that will see proceeds

The Scottish Government has officially backed a plan to outlaw greyhound racing, throwing its weight behind a private member's bill that will now almost

In an industry defined by rapid innovation and constant regulatory change, the role of compliance has evolved from a simple checkbox to a strategic business

Global gaming giant Entain Plc has appointed Andrew Vouris to permanently lead its Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) business, a division facing a complex mix

SkyCity Entertainment Group has reported a statutory net profit after tax of NZ$29.2 million for the 2025 financial year, a significant swing from the

The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has issued a formal call for online gambling operators interested in securing a license in the country’s

New Zealand's iGaming sector stands at the threshold of a pivotal transformation. With regulatory reforms underway and significant market expansion on the