For traders, Christmas represents a hectic Premier League fixture pile-up, with teams playing three games in just 10 days; fans happily sit back with a turkey sandwich, whilst trading floors are faced with numerous challenges. Charlie Linford, industry veteran and Director of Trading at Metric Gaming is well versed in this schedule having traded on the frontline for many years. …
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Denys Parkhomenko, Chief Product Officer of GR8 Tech, unpacks some of the challenges facing trading departments in 2023. He discusses the role that automation can play in deploying an effective risk management strategy before explaining how GR8 Tech is supporting its clients in integrating best-in-class trading solutions. While the spotlight often shines elsewhere in bookmaking, trading remains the backbone. Its …
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Euro 2020 is finally going ahead this summer. It’s been a while coming and I – like all sports fans and bettors – am excited to get involved in the action of a fully-fledged major soccer tournament once again, writes Marco Blume (pictured), Trading Director of Pinnacle and the operator’s B2B arm Pinnacle Solution. Russia 2018 is now becoming a …
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The world of trading and risk management has come on leaps and bounds in recent years thanks to advances in technology, but how does that shape the sportsbook of 2030? Fast forward 10 years to 2030 and Dinos Stranomitis, Director and COO at Altenar, thinks that the future for sports betting lies in the development of software that can independently …
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Some of the leading suppliers to the sports betting industry offered their insights into the future for sportsbook personalisation based on automated customer segmentation, advanced behavioural analysis and predictive AI-driven models. The fourth round table participant was Amelco, represented by Trading Director Sam Foulkes. SBC: What role does pricing and risk have to play in the differentiation of a sportsbook …
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With the unveiling of its new sportsbook, VSODDS.BET has underlined its ambition to place a greater focus on betting traders, offering only pre-match, fixed odds to players in core markets around the world. The company’s founder, Dalius Dabashinskas detailed to SBC the strategy for putting these ambitious plans in place by appealing to a more considered sportsbook bettor. SBC: Could …
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For betting operators, the intricacies of trading will continue to provide a unique challenge as they look to utilise data and physical trading to provide the perfect pricing environment. Head of Compilation at Abelson Info, Jeevan Jeyaratnam detailed why physical traders still play a crucial role for betting operators, as well as analysing how Asian markets play a role in …
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Pricing feeds have become de rigueur in an industry beset by increasing costs, but are they the best way forward for established sportsbooks desperate to retain market share? In a two part article, Jeevan Jeyaratnam of Super Soccer GPS takes a look at how the market has developed. In recent years the growth of online wagering and the, ever-extending, choice of whom to bet …
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SBC’s Football Odds Expert Jeevan Jeyaratnam, of odds compiling firm Super Soccer GPS, explains what happens when an unfamiliar name unexpectedly hits the team sheet. The promotion of Marcus Rashford into the starting XI for Manchester United’s must-win Europa League game with Danish champions Midtylland on February 25th 2016 was a landmark for the player, but created a wave of rapid …
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Freelance sports trader Alan Thompson has proved himself ahead of the World Cup by winning the Onside Analysis World Cup Quiz, run in conjunction with SBC News. Thompson answered all the questions correctly and won a World Cup Trading Pack developed by Onside Analysis, the specialist in football performance and data analysis. Thompson said: “The pack is excellent, a quality …
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