The SOFTSWISS Anti-Fraud team helped its clients to save €2.8m in Q1 2022, according to new results published by its Managed Services division. For the first three months of the current year, the service focused on investigating suspicious activity in online casinos. It reported that it has resolved more than 75 “major complaints” during this period. Anastasia Vyshinskaya, Anti-Fraud Team …
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Bayes Esports has closed its latest financing round of €6m, a cash injection that CEO Martin Dachselt believes will deliver sustainable growth for the company and help “professionalise the esports industry”. Last year, the Berlin-based esports company raised more than €10m, and this figure is expected to double over the course of the next 12 months. Among the main investors …
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A wide range of games, flexibility in discussing terms of service and quick resolution of issues were highlighted as the key factors that companies consider when choosing an igaming partner. That’s according to a new SOFTSWISS Game Aggregator survey conducted by Kantar Ukraine in January and February of this year. Respondents made it clear that the main reasons for ending …
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Altenar outlines the reasons why investing in sportsbook software providers can help investors diversify their portfolios and offer new opportunities for growth. The world of investments, investing, stocks and shares is nothing new. In fact, the industry of well-dressed individuals and highly-lucrative moments has stapled modern culture, while rising sports betting economies across the globe, and investors new and seasoned, …
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Writing for SBC News, Tomas Ericsson, Abios VP of Odds, discusses FIFA and NBA2K as betting products and their future potential as filler products for regular sports. When referring to esports, many think of games such as League of Legends, CS:GO or Dota 2, typically landing in the categories of first-person shooters or MOBAs. The games are indeed the most …
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As more of the world opens up to regulated sports betting, Altenar is confident that it can deliver a stand-out user experience for its customers across the world. That’s according to Domenico Mazzola, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer. Speaking to SBC, Mazzola highlighted some of the recently launched products that have been added to the Altenar portfolio, before explaining why …
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Ben ‘Noxville’ Steenhuisen (pictured right), Senior Software Architect at Bayes Esports, looks at the overlaps between esports and ‘traditional’ sports before assessing some of the key challenges companies face when marketing the concept of competitive video gaming to new demographics of bettors. For a long time the variety of sports available for traditional sports betting was a mostly stagnant pool. …
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The gambling industry has changed substantially over the last few years, most notably with the growing influence of the online sphere on how we consume information and entertainment. Speaking in the latest SBC Leaders magazine, Betsson Group CEO Pontus Lindwall explained that when he first entered the online gambling industry in 1996, the sector was very much in its infancy. …
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New York. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere … at least according to Sinatra! And for Better Collective, the Empire State forms a large part of its strategy to conquer the US market. Marc Pedersen, CEO of Better Collective US and SVP of Business Development and M&A, walks us through the company’s recent partnership with …
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With a presence in five different continents, the notion of ever-changing regulations is no novelty for Silvia Almeida, the media buying lead that coordinates, controls, and defines the unequivocal pathway of circa 150 media buyers at Clever Advertising. But this does not mean that the performance media agency can rest on its laurels – as it places compliance at the …
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