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 set26 Citi: Macau premium mass rooms at their quietest in recent history by Ben Blaschke Mon 21 Sep 2026 at 20:00 Citigroup’s latest monthly Macau premium mass gaming table survey produced results the investment bank says were “among the worst in recent history,” although this could be due to players postponing trips ahead of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival holiday and National Day “Golden Week” holiday. In a Monday note, Citi analysts George Choi and Timothy Chau said Macau’s casino floors were in general quieter even than three months ago at the start of the World Cup, with total premium mass wager observed down 45% year-on-year to HK$6.8 million (US$867,000) and the number of players 20% lower at 401. This, they added, implies that average wager per player fell 31% year-on-year to HK$16,958 (US$2,162). The 14 “whales” spotted was 17 fewer than the previous month and 13 fewer than September 2025. However, Choi and Chai said they “cannot firmly conclude whether the weak resu...

 set26 Singapore is to enact new casino regulations to prescribe electronic credits as casino chips. Additionally, “new wagering instruments may also be prescribed in future,” should the city-state’s Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA) “assess them to be suitable”. That is according to a Monday update from the Ministry of Home Affairs, outlining a  second tranche of measures under the country’s Casino Control (Amendment) Act 2024 that took effect that day. The Casino Control (Amendment) Act 2024 had received a second reading in Singapore’s parliament in September 2024. Monday’s statement said: “New Casino Control (Prescribed Casino Chips) Regulations 2026 will be enacted to prescribe electronic credits as casino chips. “New wagering instruments may also be prescribed in future, should GRA assess them to be suitable.” The statement said the intent of the changes was “to future-proof the regime” to allow for new modes of payment, “such as cashless gaming”. “An example is where ...

set26 Macau is going to be an “emerging market for slots” as growth in high-end table play moderates and demand in the latter segment matures, suggests United States gaming technology entrepreneur John Acres, in comments to GGRAsia. To build on and support that potential, Macau can benefit from a next-generation slot video screen manager offering “real-time customer engagement,” Mr Acres (pictured) stated. He is founder of Las Vegas, Nevada-based Acres Manufacturing Co. The business, started in 2007, was recently gazetted as a gaming machine manufacturer approved by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) for the Macau market. For the April to June period, Macau’s slot gross gaming revenue (GGR) was 6.7 percent of all casino revenue, up from 5.6 percent a year earlier, according to gaming bureau market-segment data issued recently . That was notwithstanding the 12,000-unit cap on the number of electronic gaming machines (EGMs) permitted in Macau. A key Acres Manufacturing ...

set26 Em 2025, as oito empresas do sector do jogo gastaram mais 8% do que as despesas registadas no ano anterior, sendo que os gastos se cifraram nos 101 mil milhões de patacas. As despesas relacionadas com bens e serviços oferecidos a clientes corresponderam a mais de 27 mil milhões e a uma subida anual de 7%   PEDRO MILHEIRÃO As despesas do sector do jogo cresceram 7,5%, em 2025 e face ao ano anterior, cifrando-se em 101,4 mil milhões de patacas, de acordo com dados da Direcção dos Serviços de Estatística e Censos (DSEC). As despesas de exploração ascenderam 7,7% para 43,7 mil milhões. Apesar de terem recuado 0,4 pontos percentuais para 62,6%, em termos proporcionais, os gastos com os bens e serviços fornecidos gratuitamente a clientes subiram 7% para 27,36 mil milhões de patacas. Na prospecção de mercado, publicidade e ‘marketing’, as empresas investiram 2,5 mil milhões de patacas, no ano transacto, 3,3% abaixo dos gastos assinalados em 2024. Na área da informática, as despesas ...

 set26 Macau’s six casino concessionaires face increasingly broad regulatory scrutiny under the city’s Third Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2026–2030), with their performance likely to be assessed beyond traditional gaming-related metrics , according to a legal analysis by Pedro Cortés of Macau law firm Lektou. The plan places gaming within the city’s wider “integrated tourism and leisure” sector, rather than treating it as a standalone economic pillar, the lawyer noted.  Mr Cortés stated: “This framing has tangible regulatory consequences. Concessionaires can expect that government assessments of their performance will increasingly measure contributions to the broader tourism and leisure proposition – not merely gross gaming revenue .” His paper was published in Lexology, a website of United Kingdom-based Law Business Research. The Five-Year Plan sets a target for non-gaming sectors to account for approximately 60 percent of Macau’s gross domestic product...