Analysis: Genting in Macau … Why? How? (Part 1 of 2)

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 2:16 PM
  • Andrew W Scott, Inside Asian Gaming

At one minute to midnight — well ok, actually 14 minutes before the 5pm deadline on 14 September, but that doesn’t sound nearly as dramatic — an unexpected seventh bidder for a Macau casino concession emerged, upsetting the applecart for the incumbent sextet oligopoly. The site of the drama was the office of Macau’s gaming regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, known by its Portuguese acronym, the DICJ. The Big Six incumbents had lodged their bids at the DICJ office earlier that day, except for Wynn Macau which lodged the day before.