iGaming Ontario (iGO) announced at the start of August that it had selected a joint bid from IC360 and fellow technology specialist IXUP to develop the new province-wide system for Ontario’s gaming market.
iGO says the self-exclusion tool will be the first of its kind in a North American market. Ontario players over the age of 19 will be able to sign up for the program, which will then block them from using all of their online gaming accounts with regulated operators in the province.
Speaking on the Gaming News Canada show, hosted by Steve McAllister, after the announcement of the multi-year contract, Frank gave some more details on what the tool will look to accomplish.
“We had three fundamental factors we wanted to meet in our system and what we built and the first was to..