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Enforcement Report details UKGC concerns for consumer protection

Neil McArthur

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has published its second annual ‘Enforcement Report’, providing a detailed overview of the work and progress the Commission has made on its regulatory agenda and industry directives. The report updates industry stakeholders on the seven key disciplines central to UK gambling policy and standards – safer gambling, AML, marketing/advertising, illegal activities, affordability, consumer protection and compliance. …

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Tommy Kearns, Xtremepush: Smashing the data silos for a Single Customer View

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As the company behind the platform that helped Oddschecker to run more than 100 tactical marketing campaigns across five channels during this year’s Cheltenham Festival week, Xtremepush is making its mark on the sports betting industry. We spoke to the firm’s CEO Tommy Kearns, who explained why ‘monolithic’ cloud solutions are being replaced by purpose-built platforms. This allows brands to …

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Round table – Digitain: The future of sportsbook personalisation

Digitain

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 next round table participant was Digitain, represented by its COO, Suren Khachatryan. SBC: What role does pricing and risk have to play in the differentiation of a sportsbook …

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BtoBet: Personalizing UX for the European player

Personalization

In a relatively short time span the European market has become a saturated environment for operators, who routinely face big challenges with regards to player acquisition, retention and churn. All this whilst keeping in mind that the vast majority of betting sites offer essentially the same odds, bet types and markets. Therefore, personalization is a must to mitigate these challenges, …

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Martin Clarke, Metric Gaming: Leading the counter trend to scale-driven cookie-cutter solutions

Metric

Metric Gaming Head of Product Martin Clarke discusses the current issues surrounding innovation and how the industry’s existing technology may be a roadblock to creativity, especially for dynamic live betting markets. SBC: The gambling industry has often been criticised for being too homogeneous, with the only competition on the amount of money given to players via bonuses. Why is there …

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Campeón Gaming Partners: Waiting for the “green light” to make Sweden and UK market moves

Campeón

Having secured a licence from the Malta Gaming Authority, igaming operator Campeón Gaming Partners has set about adding four new gaming brands in the second half of 2019, as well as finalising the deals of new licensed operations for both Sweden and the UK. We caught up with Marinos Shiapanis – the firm’s Co-Founder and CMO – to discuss the …

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Tom Watson – ‘Cultural change’ is key to gaining a purposeful gambling industry

SBC News Tom Watson - 'Cultural change' is key to gaining a purposeful gambling industry

Labour Party Deputy Leader Tom Watson has published the full transcript of his speech on gambling reforms delivered yesterday to UK ‘cross-party’ thinktank DEMOS. In his opening statement, Watson outlines his belief that the UK gambling sector’s defence of FOBTs machines through ‘unacceptable lobbying’ has seen its incumbents ‘fall beyond public accountability’. Watson states that any future Labour government ‘must …

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Vermantia: Timely racing content respite for Italy’s operators

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Italian horseracing fans are ready for an exciting summer with restrictions on broadcasting racing content from abroad set to be fully removed, just in time for the country’s operators to counter the loss of revenues from the impending ban on gambling advertising. We caught up with Fabio Massimo Molinari, Commercial Director at Vermantia – Italy, to find out more. SBC: …

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