Intralot

A Baltimore circuit judge has reversed the contract appeals board that upheld Intralot's disqualification from Maryland's lottery systems tender, reportedly holding that a 2025 procurement law required the state to let it correct its minority business paperwork. It revives Intralot's case, not its award: the state threw out every bid in December, and Scientific Games is still running the lottery while it fights that decision.

A legislative audit says the Montana Lottery, the Department of Administration and the governor's office would not let auditors review emails about how the lottery handled its biggest vendor. When the contract was finally put out to tender, the incumbent's rate fell from 8% to 5.05%.

The supplier has picked an insider of eight years to run a business it bought back from Endeavour last year. Konstakis takes over at the end of December, a week after the OmniLogic acquisition and a summer in which OpenBet processed more than 175 million World Cup bets.

Eighteen months after its management bought it out of Endeavor, OpenBet is adding a Hungarian supplier that has served World Lottery Association members for over a decade. No price, no customer names and no headcount were disclosed.

A $400m term loan and a $160m delayed draw fund pre-construction on the $4bn Ferry Point project and give the group liquidity, from the private credit firm that also refinanced The Star in June.

Mira Mircheva resigned for personal reasons after about eighteen months. George Papanier takes the role on an interim basis for the second time. Bally's meets the Chicago City Council on 9 September to discuss its finances.

The vote was close to unanimous on the shares, and the scheme now needs only the Gibraltar court. It puts William Hill, 888 and Mr Green into the same group as Bally's Intralot's lottery and gaming technology business, with completion expected late this year or early next.

Bally's Intralot has struck a roughly £243.1 million all-share deal for Evoke, the operator behind William Hill and 888, in a consolidation play sharpened by the steep rise in [British gambling taxes](/regulatory-map) landing over the next two years. The terms hand Evoke shareholders a 77% premium and hand the enlarged group a place among the United Kingdom's largest online operators.

A business bought for £2.2 billion less than four years ago may be about to change hands for a tenth of that price. The Bally's Intralot bid for Evoke is the most significant corporate development in British gambling for years.

Evoke warned this would happen if the government pressed ahead with its tax plans. It pressed ahead. Now 200 William Hill shops are closing and thousands of jobs are at risk.

Bally’s Intralot will transition its lotteries leadership on 16 March 2026 as Nikos Nikolakopoulos steps down as President of Lotteries, with chief operating officer Chrysostomos Sfatos set to assume the role while the outgoing executive remains on the board as a non-executive director.

Global lottery and gaming technology supplier Intralot has reported a stable first-half performance, but the company's leadership has made it clear that its