OpenBet re-ups with Loto-Quebec as the NYX/Amaya takeover of Canada continues

Online sports betting technology provider OpenBet has re-upped with Canadian provincial gaming monopoly Loto-Quebec as the province prepares to alter its online gambling landscape.

On Wednesday, OpenBet announced that it had inked a three-year extension to its current supplier deal with Loto-Quebec. In addition to kicking their adieu date further down the road, OpenBet is providing Loto-Quebec’s online site EspaceJeux with its new mobile portal solution, which launched at the end of 2015.

OpenBet has powered EspaceJeux since its 2010 launch and has ties with other provincial lottery monopolies, including the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, whose OpenBet-powered PlayNow.com also launched in 2010. OpenBet and BCLC recently expanded their relationship via the launch of Sports Pools on PlayNow.

OpenBet says its new Quebec deal reflects Loto-Quebec’s convergence strategy and is “designed to support the planned changes to regulation within the province, that are currently in the process of being passed by the authorities.”