Warren Russell, CEO at W2, writes for SBC on the long-awaited review of the Gambling Act and the reasons why this presents a new opportunity for the industry to enact real change in the player protection space. Cast your eyes back to 2020. Many of us will remember this as a time when the UK was slowly starting to emerge …
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Affordability has been one of the key talking points in gambling circles over the past year, eliciting positive responses from some stakeholders, but reservations from others. Although the Gambling Act review has once again been delayed, many reform advocates remain hopeful that enhanced affordability checks protecting the most vulnerable of players will be included in the regulatory overhaul. On the …
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Regulatory compliance services provider W2 has developed an ‘Affordability for Gambling Tool’, designed to have a minimal impact on the customer journey for betting firms. Addressing an expected requirement for enhanced affordability as a result of the 2005 Gambling Act review, the company states its product has been built to create a ‘clear picture’ without being overly intrusive. The tool …
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“We cannot make the operators the police,” said W2 founder and CEO Warren Russell, as he called on all key stakeholders within the UK’s igaming industry to work collaboratively to identify problem gambling and become better aware of its real dangers. Russell spoke to SBC News about why KYC checks are not just a task for the onboarding phase and …
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It’s important to distinguish product from service, said Microgame’s Marco Castaldo, as a collection of CEOs for leading sports betting and gaming suppliers discussed the best way of working with operators on a multi-jurisdictional basis. Speaking at Betting on Sports Europe – Digital in the ‘Market fragmentation – Supplier CEO Panel’, sponsored by Altenar, Castaldo was replying to an opening …
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This week’s Betting on Sports Europe – Digital conference and expo is set to be 2020’s best opportunity for the senior management teams of sports betting operators, affiliates, suppliers, and regulators to learn from each other about the issues shaping the future of the industry. The free-to-attend virtual event on 21 – 22 October features an agenda with more than …
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Concluding a deeply engaging day of discussions on Thursday’s Payments track at the SBC Digital Summit, Payment Expert will be once again bringing together industry leaders to discuss a host of key subjects at the Payments Hour Digital Networking Party. The event will run from 3:30 to 4:30 pm UK / 10:30 to 11:30 am ET and will connect like-minded professionals to …
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A focus on international expansion and how we, as the betting and gaming industry, will get through COVID-19 are the key themes throughout Issue 8 of SBC Magazine. Now available to view HERE, it starts by tracking the journey of Giovanni Garrisi from a mathematician beating the pools to starting a 50/50 JV with Stanley Leisure, seizing an opportunity to …
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W2 will expand its sales and marketing efforts after securing Series A funding to the tune of £3 million from Mercia Technologies PLC and the Development Bank of Wales. This will be used to build on an exceptional 2018 for W2, a B2B software provider focused on streamlining customer acquisition and managing regulatory risk by performing real-time identity verification, anti-money …
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W2 is a data screening solutions provider which helps major organisations, including those active in the sports betting industry, to conduct regulatory Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Fraud prevention checks. Six months on from securing significant growth fund investment, we caught up with the company’s CEO Warren Russell to discuss the development of its sales, marketing and technical …
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