Inside Asian Gaming

September 2014 inside asian gaming 71 Not surprisingly, MEI’s flagship Cashflow SC headlined the exhibit. An Inside Asian Gaming “Supplier Awards 2014” winner, the SC is unsurpassed among bill acceptors for security, speed and efficiency. Compact, easy to install and maintain, it combines RFID-enabled data-gathering with the transmission capabilities of MEI’s Easitrax Soft Count in a platform that is also backwards- compatible with the enhancements incorporated in the newer SC Advance. What this means is operators never have to wonder whether they’re getting the state of the art in first-time acceptance rates for valid street-grade banknotes. They’ve come to prize the SC’s faster bill-to-bill speed, comprehensive bar-code recognition, and the expanded memory, which allows for recognition of more currencies and denominations, and with SC Advance they also get the benefit of USB 2.0 upgrade capability for speeding up communications with the host machine and providing support for the addition of even more functionalities. The industry will begin to see CPI’s full impact as more corporate and customer-facing functions are consolidated. It’s a work in progress, as Mr Nugent readily acknowledges; so heading into G2E he says it will be “business as usual” for the separate companies as they continue to focus on ensuring that the service and value chains they’ve built in their respective markets remain strong. MEI, in particular, has been growing share in several key Asian jurisdictions, notably in Macau. “Asia remains a very important market for us,” says Mr Nugent. “We have local teams in each of the countries. We know that Asian gaming continues to grow. We will continue to put additional resources there and look forward to all the new exciting developments.” SC Advance Tech Talk