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Winning Post: German gambling adjusts to a new normal

SBC News Winning Post: German gambling adjusts to a new normal

Undertaking a deep dive of German sports betting (omnichannel) and online gaming monthly tax yields since July’s GlüNeuRStV market reform. Regulus Partners uncovers that “as is often the case a critical mass of consumers is proving resilient to bad regulation” – creating a dangerous precedent for all market stakeholders.   The German domestically regulated sportsbetting market recovered in turnover terms in …

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Live streaming of online games: How security concerns impact business decisions

SBC News Live streaming of online games: How security concerns impact business decisions

Oliver Lietz, CEO at nanocosmos, takes a look at the ways that security concerns can impact a business’ approach to live streaming, highlighting that system security of server and cloud operations are becoming increasingly important, especially for monetised environments like live gaming. A flaw in Log4j, a common Java library for logging error messages in applications, has recently been flagged …

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Armenia gambling states no way back if advertising ban is enforced 

SBC News Armenia gambling states no way back if advertising ban is enforced 

Armenian gambling stakeholders have warned of dire consequences should the National Assembly approve Finance Minister Armen Hayrapetyan’s amendments to the federal Advertising Law – imposing a near blackout on gambling advertising.  Concerns have heightened as last week 56 MPs voted in favour of Hayrapetyan’s amendments casting preliminary votes to amend the nation’s  Advertising Law (versus 8-against), that will see gambling …

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Nedda Kaltcheva: Pronet Gaming – Strategising success through team & tech-building

SBC News Nedda Kaltcheva: Pronet Gaming - Strategising success through team & tech-building

Nedda Kaltcheva, Chief Technology Officer at Pronet Gaming, explains why it is as important to cultivate a winning working culture as it is to have state-of-the-art modular platform technology… There are three main areas of importance for any organisation seeking to strengthen its technological foundations: team and culture, architecture, and processes. This is particularly apparent in the fast-growing igaming business, …

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David Clifton: Thoughts on the APBGG Report on the competence & effectiveness of the UKGC

SBC News David Clifton: Thoughts on the APBGG Report on the competence & effectiveness of the UKGC

Back in September last year, the Parliamentary All Party Betting & Gaming Group (APBGG) launched its investigation into the competence and effectiveness of the Gambling Commission. Bearing in mind that the APBGG investigation followed on from heavy criticisms of the regulator by each of the National Audit Office, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, the Gambling Related Harm All Party Parliamentary Group and the House of …

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NSoft: Embracing innovation and challenges in the gaming industry

SBC News NSoft: Embracing innovation and challenges in the gaming industry

With six years under its belt,  Stark Solutions continues to make its self service betting terminals available to businesses across the world. Speaking to SBC News, Mila Mariċ, a Mechanical Engineer at Stark, shares her thoughts on the rising demand for SSBTs before reflecting on some of the major milestones in her own career. NSoft’s wealth of experience from the …

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SBC Spotlight: Jesper Søgaard – “Better Collective stronger on all fronts following 2021 diversification”

Better Collective CEO Jesper Søgaard

Speaking to SBC, Better Collective CEO and Co-Founder Jesper Søgaard looks back at an eventful 2021 that transformed the Stockholm-listed firm’s global outlook by diversifying its business units beyond affiliate publishing… Overall, I think 2021 was a great year in spite of the fact that most of the world was still affected by the impact of COVID-19. However, the pandemic …

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Winning Post: Appeasement on advertising helps nobody

SBC News Winning Post: Appeasement on advertising helps nobody

Regulus Partners warns that early 2022 regulatory developments have set a dangerous precedent on the future of gambling advertising. Despite visible flaws across multiple jurisdictions, operators should defend their right to advertise rather than face the dire consequences of caving into regulatory appeasement… The New Year has opened with a number of threatened or delivered changes to gambling advertising. Gambling …

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Betinvest: Embracing new challenges in 2022

SBC News Betinvest: Embracing new challenges in 2022

As the new year gets underway, Kateryna Tkachenko, Head of Marketing at Betinvest, explains why the company’s focus has shifted towards delivering betting content and how this strategic change will allow the company to welcome new challenges in a post-COVID era. For more than 20 years now, Betinvest Ltd. has been delivering industry-wide programming, up-to-date functionalities, efficient end-to-end software development, …

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Thomas Molloy: Pronet Gaming – Live streaming is a necessity for untapped markets…

SBC News Thomas Molloy: Pronet Gaming - Live streaming is a necessity for untapped markets...

Thomas Molloy, Sportsbook Product and Trading Director at Pronet Gaming, addresses the increasing importance of live streaming and the ways in which operators can use it to differentiate their offer in the marketplace… With sports betting around the globe experiencing evolution and, in some regions, revolution, features like live streaming of sporting events and play-by-play visualisations are increasingly being seen …

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