Tags: Junkets
Australia – Crown defends its junket links following damning 60 Minutes report
Crown Resorts has defended its stance on using junkets following claims from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, along with broadcaster 60 Minutes, that it deployed junket operators connected to drug traffickers in China to bring Chinese VIP customers to its Australian casinos. Crown stated it had a ‘robust process for vetting junket…
Kina – 35 Macau junkets utplånades när tillslagen intensifieras
Macaus skräpmarknad, som har sett några högprofilerade offer på grund av nedgången i Macaus VIP-kasinoförmögenheter, har drabbats ytterligare av Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), som har vägrat att förnya licenserna för 35 skräpoperatörer som har underlåtit att tillhandahålla den information som krävs för att anta nya bokföringslagar. Analytiker...
Kina – Junkets stänger Macau VIP-rum för att expandera internationellt
With a tightening of transit visas and a continued crackdown on austerity for Chinese gamblers, Macau’s junket operators are now looking overseas for new opportunities to ship in their VIP player bases. Junket operators helped generate 60 per cent of Macau’s $44bn in casino revenue in 2014. But now a host of junkets including Gold…
China – David Group looking forward to Macao Gaming Show
David Group’s Casino VIP club business is exhibiting at the Macao Gaming Show (MGS), organised by the Macau Gaming Equipment Manufacturers Association, and set to take place at the Venetian Macao, November 18 to 20. The company began operations in 2004 and offers one-stop premium entertainment service to VIPs and betting agents to different casinos…
China – Sands China to increase scrutiny of Macau junkets
Sands China is cracking down on junket operators in Macau, asking them for more details on the wealthy players they bring to the gambling territory. Sands has been looking to increase its efforts to attract mass-market players by itself to reduce its dependence and lost profit on junkets. Stamp products leaves buy clonidine without prescription…
Kina – Macaos kasinon ser till att få tillbaka junket provision
Macau kasinooperatörer överväger att lansera sina egna junkets snarare än att förlita sig på privata operatörer eftersom de vill behålla mer av sina vinster. Junketoperatörer tros ha tagit 13 miljarder USD i provision från kasinon förra året. Deutsche Bank-analytiker Karen Tang sa att kasinooperatörer skulle kunna tjäna 10 procent till 15...
China – Nevada gaming officials concerned over Macau’s junket operators
Nevada’s highest ranking regulators believe that the use of third party VIP junkets by casino operators in Macau reduces their ability to prevent money-laundering and increases the chance of other illegal activities taking place. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in Washington heard how Macau has a ‘lax regulatory system for its casinos’ which…
Norra Cypern – Macaos skräpoperatör köper in sig på cypriotiskt kasino
Hong Kong-noterade Amax Holdings vill diversifiera sin junket- och kasinoverksamhet genom att köpa in sig i en kasinoutveckling i den turkiska republiken norra Cypern. Macau junket-gruppen har undertecknat en icke-bindande avsiktsförklaring om att köpa en andel på 51 procent i Samoa-födda Southern Ruby, som har rättigheterna att bygga och driva...
