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LVS provide sports betting platform to Loterie National De Cote D’Ivoir

Online sportsbook software provider LVS has announced that it has signed a deal that will see it provide its Advanced Betting Platform (ABP) to the Loterie National De Cote D’Ivoir (LoNaCI) in the Ivory Coast.
London-based LVS is owned by French national lottery operator La Francaise Des Jeux (FDJ) and revealed that LoNaCI, which is the exclusive gambling operator for the Ivory Coast, is set to use ABP for the purposes of launching a sportsbook under the Sportcash brand name in time for the start of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament.
LVS declared that phase one of the plan will see the Sportcash offering made available in 80 shops before growing to support some 2,000 terminals in addition to existing lottery-style games and pari-mutuel horseracing over the course of the next year.
“This is the second deal with a state-owned lottery operator that LVS has completed and we are extremely pleased that LoNaCI chose the ABP for its sportsbetting platform,” said Simon Ordish, Chief Executive Officer for LVS.
“Our ABP, with its sophisticated risk management and event management technology, enables operators to rapidly increase their operation without the usual resource overhead.
“When an organisation such as LoNaCI trusts LVS over many of the other major sportsbook suppliers in the market, it is a huge compliment to our product and team. We are looking forward to a long and fruitful relationship with LoNaCI.”
LVS stated that it worked with partners Morpho and LotSys on the retail capabilities of its ABP in order to offer LoNaCI customers ‘a complete multi-channel solution across the Internet, mobile and retail from one single engine’. Its ABP will give LoNaCI the option of manually or automatically managing their operations from creation and pricing to settlement of events while unique price deriving tools are to provide risk management capabilities.