Gaming Associates principal consultants have extensive experience in managing the Casino Licence Tender process from the government and regulatory authority aspect.  Consequently, we are able to provide valuable services to bidders for casino rights.

This allows jurisdictions to commence regulated casino industries with assurance that due processes are followed from the outset.

Effective government liaison and advocacy is key sustainable profit maximisation.

Gaming Associates are world leading experts in relation to casino regulation.  Consequently, we are able to provide valuable services to casino operators as advocates or liaison with the government and regulatory bodies.

Systems

Gaming Associates has been assisting gaming operators in the specification, procurement, and installation of slot monitoring and player tracking systems since our inception.  Our principal consultants have been undertaking these activities for more than a decade.

Operations

Effective slots operation is the pillar of gaming profitability.

Gaming Associates has extensive experience working with different types of slot machines and associated slot machine systems.  We provide slot machine services to casino operators throughout the world including tasks such as:

• slot machine technical specifications

• game review and selection

• negotiation of slot machine supply contracts

• management of installation and commissioning

• supervision of regulatory testing and compliance reviews

• game performance and revenue analysis

Gaming Associates are world leading experts in relation to slot machines and associated systems.

Gaming Associates core competency relates to risk management and governance in gambling industries.  Our surveillance specialists are therefore key team members, having each managed surveillance departments in contemporary casinos.

We provide expert consultants reviewing the effectiveness of existing surveillance to establishing a surveillance from the ground-up.

• organisational structure

• staff selection

• equipment positioning

• equipment selection

• operating procedures and logs

• back-up and disaster recovery

• red flags

• investigation

• security of evidence

Gaming Associates core competency relates to risk management and governance in gambling industries.  Our security specialists are therefore key team members, having each managed security departments in contemporary casinos.

We provide expert consultants reviewing the effectiveness of existing security to establishing a security from the ground-up.

Gaming Associates core competency relates to risk management and governance in gambling industries.  We create internal controls & operating procedures for all manner of gambling situation - this is a core competency.

We utilise formal AS/NZS4360 risk management processes to ensure internal controls & operating procedures are efficient and effective.

Gaming Associates core competency relates to risk management and governance in gambling industries.  The establishment, operation, and maintenance of effective compliance programmes is a core competency.  Alternately, we are accomplished in the evaluation of existing compliance programmes, with treatment recommendations.

We utilise formal AS/NZS4360 compliant risk management practices, our decades of regulated casino experience, C OBI T, and AS3806 to offer world's best practice compliance programmes for casino operators.

All considerations are documented with Methodware's Enterprise Risk Assessor - ERA to ensure continuity of effort and transfer of intellectual property to customers.

Gaming Associates principals include the world's first interactive gambling regulator and the world's first regulated interactive gaming tester.  We are considered the world's foremost regulated internet gambling experts.  Our consultants have appeared as expert witnesses before Senate Select Committees and other Parliamentary enquiries since the mid-1990's.

Consulting to regulatory authorities in relation to effective interactive gambling regulation is a core competency, undertaken since our inception in 1998.

Gaming Associates has extensive experience in the specification, implementation, and operation of jackpot and bonusing systems

We assist casinos and gaming operators with services such as:

• accredited test facility, compliance testing

• acceptance testing

• specification of bonus system functionality

• evaluation of bonus/jackpot systems

• development of technical standards and controls for operating jackpot and bonusing systems

• management of bonusing system development

• specification of slot machine/bonus system interface requirements

• operational evaluation of jackpot and bonusing systems

Gaming Associates is a world leader in effective gambling regulation and efficient compliance.

We provide on-site support and training for management and staff relating to all programmes implemented.  This ensures complete post-consultancy support and knowledge transfer to client staff.

We also offer Methodware certified training (www.methodware.com) for organisations using Methodware's  Enterprise Risk Assessor (ERA) .

This on-site training allows regulators to continue their operational duties, without diversion to less frequently required tasks - leading to efficiencies.

Gaming Associates consultants have been writing Keno specifications, and assessing systems against those specifications for more than a decade.

We provide services which assist gaming operators in the specification, procurement, and installation of keno and other centralised gaming systems (e.g. bingo) .

We have implemented an Advanced Empirical Gambling Evaluation & Analysis Service (AEGEAS).  This service provides the world's most Advanced Empirical Gambling Evaluation & Analysis Services, our scales of economy mean that these advanced services are now available to gambling regulators and operators in a cost-effective way.

This state-of-the-art detection tool provides cost-effective controls, which detect anomalies.  Appropriate regulation includes detection-type controls over and above preventative-type controls (e.g. testing).  This service provides cost-effective protection of the operators gaming profits.

Gaming Associates developed AEGEAS, based on the collaboration of more than 15 consecutive years successfully analysing technology-based gambling data and systems, PhD expert systems (artificial intelligence), and PhD statistics.

Thus ensuring real and artificial intelligence is applied to each business and industry - based on performance garnished from industries around the world.