“We are pleased to be a part of holiday gift-giving traditions across Illinois every year,” Illinois Lottery Acting Director Harold Mays said. “Our instant tickets are a great gift-giving alternative.”

"I would like to thank Alberto, both personally and on behalf of the IGT Board of Directors, for his leadership and outstanding contribution during the last eight years as CFO of first GTECH and later IGT. Alberto played a significant role in improving our financial and operational performance, including helping to secure large, strategically important contracts for the next several years. We look forward to an orderly and seamless transition of his responsibilities, and wish him well in his future endeavors," said Marco Sala, CEO of IGT.

CEO Olli Sarekoski said the means that Veikkaus called "corporate responsibility actions " would reduce the company's result in 2021 by about EUR 150-200 million compared to this year's level.

CEO, Patrik Hofbauer said that he hopes that the local regulator Spelinspektionen investigates the phenomenon of “shadow play,” where a gambling company offers betting on other companies’ products. “It is incomprehensible that this may continue. I can’t think of any other industry where it’s okay to use competing companies’ products as drawbacks for their own business. The shadow gaming companies cannibalise on well-known lotteries without owning the brands themselves that they market and sell.”