{"id":31478,"date":"2022-07-06T06:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T09:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31478"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:06:33","slug":"the-lottery-office-opens-more-access-to-international-lotteries-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/the-lottery-office-opens-more-access-to-international-lotteries-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"The Lottery Office opens more access to international lotteries in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lottery Office has announced that Australian players can now enter lotteries from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- A new partnership agreement between\u00a0<strong>the Lottery Office <\/strong>and payment platform <strong>blueshyft<\/strong>, will allow Australian players to participate in lotteries from around the world. The partnership will open access to<strong> the world\u2019s biggest lotteries\u00a0<\/strong>from more than 1400 newsagents across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jaclyn Woods<\/strong>, chief executive of The Lottery Office, said the arrangement would increase confidence among players players who were hesitant to deposit online. He said that newsagents will receive a percentage of the in-store deposit or a dollar amount. In addition, newsagents will receive a referral fee for each new customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lotteries included in the partnership agreement include the Italian Mega Jackpot, EuroMillions and the US Super Lotto. By using the blueshyft platform, players can make deposits in both fiat and cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lottery Office has announced that Australian players can now enter lotteries from around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Lottery Office has forged a strategic partnership with payment platform blueshyft, enabling Australian players to access international lotteries via over 1400 newsagents. This collaboration facilitates in-store deposits, including cryptocurrency options, aiming to enhance player confidence and expand market reach for global lottery products. Newsagents will benefit from deposit percentages and new customer referral fees.","focusai_entities":"The Lottery Office, blueshyft, Jaclyn Woods","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), product_ux (0.75), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Impact?","query":"What specific regulatory compliance challenges, particularly concerning AML\/CTF and cross-border gambling, does the integration of cryptocurrency payments and retail distribution for international lotteries present in the Australian market?"},{"label":"Market Share Projections?","query":"How is this B2C distribution model via newsagents, coupled with cryptocurrency acceptance, projected to impact The Lottery Office's market share and GGR within the Australian lottery vertical over the next 12-24 months?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-31478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31485,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31478\/revisions\/31485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}