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may26 Macau’s recently introduced baccarat side bets could provide a significant boost to  gross gaming revenue (GGR)  growth thanks to their substantially higher house advantage, according to Citigroup. The investment memo, authored by analysts George Choi and Timothy Chau, was published following the bank’s proprietary  Labor Day  table survey of the Macau market. Citigroup highlighted the rollout of new baccarat side bets, swiftly approved by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), as a key takeaway from the visit. The new side bets carry an estimated house advantage of 16 to 18 percent, compared with around 1 percent on the main Banker and Player bets. ‘Any further increase in propensity to wager on side bets would provide Macau with a significant boost to GGR growth,’ the analysts wrote. All six concessionaires have added some of the newly approved options. Sands China, Wynn Macau, Melco Resorts and SJM now offer both ‘Monkey no Monkey’ and ‘Pairs+...

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 mar26 Macau’s gaming regulator has opened 22 administrative infraction cases against casino operators since the city’s revised  gaming law  came into force in 2022. The figures are   according to a written reply from the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau ( DICJ ) to legislator José Maria Pereira Coutinho. In response to the legislative inquiry, the regulator said the cases were launched to investigate suspected violations by concessionaires under the updated legal framework governing casino gaming operations. Of the 22 cases, five resulted in penalties, 10 were closed due to insufficient evidence, and seven remain under investigation, the bureau stated. However, the DICJ did not disclose the types of violations involved or the total amount of fines imposed. The figures were disclosed after Legislator Coutinho asked the government to clarify how the administrative penalty system introduced under the revised gaming law has been implemented and whether enforcem...

ab26 Non-gaming added value edges past 2019 level while share dwindles By  Aries Un Macau’s non-gaming growth has survived the post-covid return of a dominant gaming industry, with emerging industries contributing 9.3 per cent to the city’s added value in 2024. According to a Tuesday summary report on the city’s 2021-2025 plan for economic and social development, the 9.3 percent contribution was up by 1.1 percentage points from the 2019 level. This metric, which tracks the share of nascent industries relative to the domestic economy as a whole, rose from 8.2 per cent to as high as 14.3 per cent in 2020, when the covid-19 pandemic began to squeeze visitation to Macau. During the first year of the covid onslaught, Macau’s gross gaming revenue suffered a year-over-year loss of 79.3 per cent to land at MOP60.44 billion (US$7.49 billion). Gross gaming revenue for 2021 rebounded by 43.7 per cent to MOP86.86 billion. However, it plummeted by 51.4 per cent to nearly MOP42.2 billion the fol...