The appointment is already effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
New Zealand.-\u00a0SkyCity Entertainment Group\u00a0<\/strong>has announced that Donna Cooper has been appointed as the new non-executive director. The announcement was made on Thursday (September 28) and the appointment became effective the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cooper joined the group in July, having previously served at Coralus, TBS, and the Banking Ombudsman Scheme in New Zealand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier this month, the\u00a0New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA)\u00a0<\/strong>informed\u00a0SkyCity\u00a0<\/strong>that an application was submitted to suspend its casino operator\u2019s licence for approximately 10 days. It follows a complaint lodged by a former customer who gambled at the casino between August 2017 and February 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The suspension request is primarily based on allegations that SkyCity did not adhere to the requirements outlined in its SkyCity Auckland host responsibility programme concerning the detection of prolonged gambling sessions by customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dini Soulio<\/strong>, the Liquor and Gambling Commissioner for South Australia, has approved\u00a0the appointment of Kroll Australia<\/a>\u00a0as an\u00a0independent monitor for SkyCity Adelaide<\/a>. The company was ordered to appoint an independent monitor in May in order to supervise the implementation of programmes aimed at ensuring compliance with AML\/CTF regulations and gambling harm minimisation obligations. Kroll already holds a comparable role as the independent monitor for Crown Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The appointment is already effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"SkyCity Entertainment Group has appointed Donna Cooper as a non-executive director amidst significant regulatory scrutiny. The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs has sought a 10-day suspension of SkyCity Auckland's casino operator's licence due to alleged failures in its host responsibility programme. Concurrently, Kroll Australia has been appointed as an independent monitor for SkyCity Adelaide to oversee compliance with AML\/CTF and gambling harm minimisation obligations, mirroring its role at Crown Sydney.","focusai_entities":"SkyCity Entertainment Group, Donna Cooper, Coralus, TBS, Banking Ombudsman Scheme, New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, Dini Soulio, Kroll Australia, Crown Sydney","focusai_location":"New Zealand, South Australia, Auckland, Adelaide, Sydney","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Licence Suspension Impact","query":"What is the projected financial and operational impact of the proposed 10-day licence suspension on SkyCity Auckland's GGR and NGR, and how will this affect its market share in New Zealand?"},{"label":"Governance Framework Review","query":"How will the appointment of Donna Cooper as a non-executive director influence SkyCity's board oversight of regulatory compliance and host responsibility frameworks, particularly in light of recent enforcement actions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-777009723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-skycity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009723","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=777009723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041232,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009723\/revisions\/777041232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777009723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}