Finland's Slot Machine Association
Based in Espoo, Finland, Finland’s Slot Machine Association is a non-profit company that regulates gambling, as well as offering a selection of different games meant to generate money for the organisation. Much of the money made through the company is sent to various charities around the country, as well as pensioner care.
Finland’s Slot Machine Association provides games for both the Helsinki Casino, online games on their website, and venues around Finland. The website was officially launched in 2013, and boasts thousands of different casino games, accessible from across the world through the website.
Finland’s Slot Machine Association Administration
The company is openly public, and most of its administrative capacity is viewable by anyone. Finland’s Slot Machine Association is run by 94 members, and operates in casino, health, and social welfare.
The Finnish government selects a number of board members to manage the company, and all decisions are done through a board meeting. The board meeting is where the directors and staff make changes to the company, the regulations, and policies employed by Finland’s Slot Machine Association.
It’s not just central government, either. It has been a huge collaborative effort also including cities, businesses, NGOs and state-owned gambling company Veikkaus, formerly Finland’s Slot Machine Association, whose profits go to social causes. Icons and communication illustrations for Finland's Slot Machine Association. Icons characters illustration. CITIx60 City Guide. Cover for Berlin city guide. Veikkaus monopolizes in the lottery games, RAY monopolizes in slot machines, and Fintoto runs its horse racing sector. Although these are the 3 three main regulators, a lot of Finnish people enjoy gambling on other platforms as well. The gambling industry in Finland has become a huge part of the leisure industry for the Finnish people.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Police Board are the two main governmental agencies that monitor Finland’s Slot Machine Association. Alongside these, there is the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
These agencies ensure that all funds are being distributed properly, and that all regulations and rules are constantly fair. Due to the nature of Finland’s Slot Machine Association, the salaries, as well as the distribution of money made is made available to the public. This is accompanied by the company’s audits and business minutes.
Finland’s Slot Machines Association Gaming Operations
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The main gaming platform offered by Finland’s Slot Machines Association is slot machines, but other casino games are available. These games can be found across Finland, in hotels, service stations, kiosks, restaurants, and markets.
If players prefer an online experience, the RAY website offered by the organisation offers a full collection of online casino games, and many of these games are even available on mobile devices, such as smart phones, similar to the casino real money offers.
Additionally, all games offered have Finnish origins, where Finland’s Slot Machines Association mandates the creation and distribution of these games. This is done to ensure that players have access to fair online games, as well as the chance to handle any sort of gambling addictions players may be experiencing.
The most common online casino players that make use of the games are young men, and they spend an average of 5 Euros on various slot machines. The company offers a full helpline service for those who feel they have an addiction.
Due to the nature of Finland’s Slot Machine Association, gambling addiction is the country is relatively low, and the support systems in place help thousands every day.
Finland’s Slot Machine Association Activities
All profits made by the company are redistributed to various health and welfare organisations. These include organisations that monitor substance abuse, illnesses, and disabilities.
Oct 24, 2013, 10:48 AM
Nitor Creations, a provider of business-driven software solutions, has entered into a frame agreement with Finland's Slot Machine Association (RAY). The contract period for the agreement is four years and it became into effect in September 2013. The contract scope consists of the services for designing and implementing RAY's backend systems and deploying them into production use.
'We are very enthusiastic about starting the co-operation with RAY. The contract also marks an important opening in a new market for Nitor. In the future, we will also serve customers in the public sector', tells the CEO of Nitor, Matti Vilmi.
Nitor is one of the leading Finnish experts in building demanding software. We design and implement business-driven solutions using agile methods and train our customers into applying them from the team-level to entire organisation scope. The customer satisfaction of Nitor is the highest ever in the history of Onway for IT sector companies. Onway is a Finnish provider of business analytics services.
More information on Nitor:
Matti Vilmi, Chief Executive Officer
Tel: +358 45 1204 747
E-mail: firstname.lastname(at)nitorcreations.com
About Finland's Slot Machine Association (RAY)
The main purpose of Finland’s Slot Machine Association (RAY) is to raise funds through gaming operations to promote Finnish health and welfare.
RAY’s gaming operations are based on offering entertaining and exciting games and services in a responsible manner. RAY’s entire proceeds are used for supporting Finnish health and social welfare organisations as well as for the benefit of the country’s war veterans.
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About Nitor
Nitor is a leading software company specialized in agile development methods.
Nitor operates in two business areas. Nitor Creations develops demanding business-driven software solutions. Entire development is based on strong competence in solution architectures and pragmatic approach in applying agile methods. Nitor Delta trains lean & agile methods and executes agile change initiatives at entire organisation scope.
The net revenue of the company was 6.7 million euros in 2012 and the company employs nearly 50 employees.