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As the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics gets well underway, gambling opportunities are beginning to emerge with plenty of moments to place a wager on either a specific event, or an outright bet on the medal market. Events like this year’s competition, which officially began on 4 February, always herald a wave of new gambling opportunities, with bettors eager to place …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

With a plan to transform live casino as we know it, Anna Vikmane (pictured below) has set her sights on creating new experiences for bettors through the launch of BETER Live.  Making its debut at the end of 2021, BETER wants its live casino division to surpass the expectations of the ‘new generation of player’ – something which Vikmane, the …

The user interface layer of a payments solution has long been considered to be a major pain point and conversion killer, according to AstroPay CEO Mikael Lijtenstein. But by taking a new, ‘radical approach’ to integrations in 2022, the payment provider hopes to streamline the user journey and ‘virtually remove all pain points’ for customers. Speaking to SBC News, Lijtenstein …