Number games will not be able to use the same drawing device, tool and equipment being implemented currently by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.- The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) <\/strong>has allowed electronic gaming operators to offer number games such as lottery. The regulator stressed that games won’t use the same drawing device, tool and equipment used by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) in its lottery draws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to a memorandum from the regulator, cited by Philstar, the minimum bet will be PHP5, and operators need to pay an application fee of P200,000 for a two-year gaming licence and P200,000 in cash deposit per gaming venue. PAGCOR will receive 35 per cent of the gross gaming revenue for live-streamed and random number generator (RNG)-based games from July to December 2024, decreasing to 30 per cent by January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As of June, there were 44 operators and service providers<\/a> under PAGCOR’s Philippine Inland Gaming Operator (PIGO) licensing programme, which was introduced in 2020, and 40 internet gaming licensees<\/a> (IGL) and 34 licensed service providers for eCasino games, sports betting, eBingo, and speciality games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Number games will not be able to use the same drawing device, tool and equipment being implemented currently by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":10260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"PAGCOR has authorized electronic gaming operators in the Philippines to offer number games, including lottery, under specific regulatory conditions. This expansion mandates distinct drawing equipment from PCSO, introduces a new licensing fee structure, and establishes a tiered Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) share for PAGCOR, impacting existing PIGO and IGL licensees.","focusai_entities":"Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR), Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO)","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.8), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected incremental Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for the Philippine iGaming market resulting from the inclusion of number games, considering the tiered PAGCOR revenue share and the existing PIGO\/IGL operator base?"},{"label":"Operational Compliance Enforcement","query":"How will PAGCOR enforce the strict differentiation of drawing devices and equipment between licensed electronic gaming operators and the PCSO for number games, and what are the specific governance frameworks and penalties for non-compliance?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-777017898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pagcor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017898","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=777017898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017919,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017898\/revisions\/777017919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777017898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}