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Interview with Martin Storm, Chairman, CEO and Owner of BMM Testlabs
How is BMM situated presently in the gaming test lab space?
BMM is a clear number 2 and rising quickly in the gaming lab market, internationally, but more particularly in the U.S. We employ more staff today than we did prior to the pandemic as we continue to grow. Our digital testing business is growing very strongly while our traditional land-based testing awaits the demand that will come from land-based casinos opening up again all over the world. We are confident about our future growth.
As more and more people in the developed world pursue vaccinations for COVID-19 and are able to return to physical casinos, how do you see demand returning in the land-based testing space?
The land-based gaming business has been deeply affected by COVID-led casino closures across the regulated gaming world. Operators had to cut costs and wait it out. Product sales and shipment opportunities for traditional manufacturers and suppliers paused, also forcing them to cut costs and carefully select short-term growth projects. The downstream impact of that has been more specific projects but lower games volumes which has been challenging for BMM and GLI that deliver >90% of land-based product certifications worldwide. Happily, with planning and discipline, our leadership and staff have managed BMM through this interrupted period as well as I could have hoped.
The question on many gaming executive’s mind is when will the land-based industry return back to normal demand? With an increasing rate of COVID vaccinations and greater accessibility to travel, I sense 2022 might be the time when we begin to see more regular CAPEX from operators driving the industry supply chain once again. As a leading indicator for land-based gaming, Las Vegas has achieved eight consecutive record months of gaming activity, up more than 20% on record 2019 results, and 19 of 25 commercial gaming states in the U.S are tracking ahead of 2019 gaming revenue levels. The period from March through August was the U.S. gaming industry’s six highest-grossing gaming months ever. So I expect mid-2022 as the period when the land-based industry gets back on track, all the way down the value chain. Importantly, BMM is ready now.
From a test lab’s perspective, what has been the story of the iGaming space?
Quite simply, with no physical assets to close and ongoing market expansion, digital or iGaming has flourished during the COVID pandemic. It has reached all-time highs in terms of the number of suppliers to engage, the number of products to certify, and new markets opening, particularly in the U.S. I know all the labs have done well in this segment in Europe over the last two to three years. However, while there are more local market labs in Europe competing for digital product testing, the opening of the North American market has very quickly changed the narrative in favor of global testlab capabilities with real and immediate market access to U.S and Canadian jurisdictions.
BMM is extremely well placed to service Sports-Betting and online gaming players wishing to spread their wings into the U.S and Canadian gaming markets, as we are licensed everywhere they need and have more than 20 years of experience in iGaming. Right now we are seeing a lot of very large European iGaming players already in or heading to North America.
Interestingly, major operators are partnering with or investing in Sports-Betting companies to drive a unique brand and value proposition for their businesses. This tells us how important digital offerings have become and now we know that most operators don’t view online business as cannibalizing their land-based business, but rather enhancing their offerings.
What do you mean by real market access in North America for gaming customers?
Strangely, it would seem, I am the only business owner of a gaming lab that has achieved full commercial gaming licensure in North America, having entered from overseas and not having been grandfathered in. It has taken BMM nearly 20 years and almost $20 million to achieve that market access. Some of the most challenging have been the commercial jurisdictions – one of them took us 13 years and cost us almost $3 million to achieve licensure. No other lab is getting there quickly and easily. U.S. regulators make you earn the right. And if another lab tells you different, I can assure you they have neither the experience nor the track record. Just another form of hope over the stark realities.
For your customers you have to stay ahead of that market curve. Not only be well ahead in terms of market access to give them the most revenue options, but also understand completely and have real experience in the technical requirements of each and every jurisdiction. Everything that is written down and everything that isn’t. That’s the only way you can accurately certify products for your customers in new markets. If you’re starting out today, it’s already too late for your customers.
The great lesson for BMM in the North American market was that if you are not way ahead of the curve, you are always way behind it, and that ultimately costs your customer’s business opportunities they are not willing to endure. So they will go to another gaming lab that can get them there. Thank goodness that experience is over for us.
What are the global testlab capabilities you mentioned?
BMM has been a dedicated ‘trusted advisor’ for gaming product companies in all markets around the world of regulated gaming by offering experienced functional, compliance and security testing teams, combined with a great understanding of technical compliance and regulatory requirements, as well as giving customers access to any regulated market in the world, which I touched on earlier.
To generate opportunities for customers, you need professional regulatory development teams, technical compliance teams, strong account management and sales, all in multiple locations, as well as competent marketing reach. The global labs will spend >30% on SG&A to revenue to deliver these capabilities. Without that kind of investment, it’s very unlikely you will achieve your goals of market expansion, and you will let customers down.
We see a lot of new entrants wanting to provide product or technical guidance to customers into new markets, yet they have no experience in product certification or testing, anywhere. They just collate the requirements and provide the information. That’s the easy bit. Knowing how to do something successfully the first time can only be provided by an experienced test lab. The cost of getting it wrong for a supplier is enormous.
BMM Europe’s digital business has grown 1000% in the last 5 years, our North America’s digital business grew 300% in the last year, both coming off a strong base. Given how our market works, there is probably an open 2-year window for iGaming product certification growth in North America before an inevitable retreat. Again, BMM is ready to move now.

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BC.Game’s new CEO Kar Kheng Giam on strategy, structure and growth

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Following his appointment as CEO of BC.Game in March, Kar Kheng Giam (KK) speaks about the strategic priorities shaping the company’s next phase, from strengthening operational foundations to navigating the evolving role of crypto within regulated gaming markets.

 

 You’ve stepped into the CEO role at a pivotal time for the industry. How do you assess the current position of BC.Game?

BC.Game enters this stage from a position of strength in terms of product, user engagement and global reach.

At the same time, the broader industry is evolving. Expectations around governance, regulatory alignment and operational maturity are increasing, particularly for businesses operating across multiple jurisdictions.

So while the foundation is strong, there is a clear opportunity to further strengthen the structure of the business to support long-term, sustainable growth.

That foundation is reflected in the scale of the business today, with more than 9 million registered users and over 500,000 monthly active players, and in the progress we’ve made across licensed markets such as Anjouan, Kenya, Nigeria and Mexico.

How would you define the strategic focus for BC.Game over the next 12 to 24 months?

It comes down to three interconnected areas. First, reinforcing the operational and governance framework of the business, ensuring we are well aligned with the expectations of more established regulatory environments.

Second, continuing to invest in the product – not just in terms of content, but in the overall user experience and platform reliability.

And third, taking a disciplined approach to market expansion, focusing on jurisdictions where we can build a sustainable and compliant presence.

It’s about evolving the business in a structured and deliberate way.

You’ve highlighted governance and structure. What does that mean in practical terms?

It means putting in place the systems, processes and organisational clarity needed to operate at scale.

As companies grow internationally, complexity increases – across regulation, payments, technology and operations. Strengthening governance is about ensuring those elements are well coordinated and consistently managed.

This is not about changing what BC.Game is, but about building the framework that allows it to grow more effectively.

Why has trust become so important at this stage?

At BC.GAME’s scale, trust is no longer just about brand but increasingly becomes a business issue – it affects retention, partnerships, market entry and long-term growth.

And trust is built in very practical ways. People judge a platform by whether the rules are clear, whether communication is smooth, and whether issues actually get resolved. That’s why growth on its own is no longer enough.

Where is the most immediate trust pressure on BC.GAME showing up today?

The pressure shows up most clearly in user experience and issue handling because that’s where people feel it first.

Some of the feedback does point to response times and cases where issues stay in the same entry point for too long. When that happens often enough, it becomes bigger than a service issue, it starts to shape trust.

What changes is BC.GAME putting in place in response to these issues?

 We’ve already started making changes. That includes upgrading how user issues are handled, bringing cross-functional teams in earlier, and improving how issues are identified and coordinated internally.

As the business has grown, relying too heavily on a single customer support entry point is no longer enough. The focus now is to make issue handling clearer, more stable, and better suited to the scale of the platform.

What role does organisational development play in this next phase?

As the business grows, it’s important to ensure that the organisation evolves alongside it. That includes strengthening leadership structures, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and building capabilities in key areas such as compliance and market operations.

Ultimately, strategy is only as effective as the organisation delivering it.

From a leadership perspective, how do you approach guiding a globally distributed business?

In a global organisation, alignment is critical – everyone needs to understand the strategic direction and how their role contributes to it. At the same time, there needs to be flexibility to adapt to local market dynamics.

My role is to create that balance – providing clear direction while enabling teams to execute effectively within their markets.

Finally, what does success look like for BC.Game over the next few years?

Success is about building a more structured, resilient and trusted business.

That means strengthening our position in regulated markets, continuing to evolve the product, and ensuring the organisation is equipped to operate at scale. This current period is a crucial one for us as we introduce multiple product rollouts at BC.GAME, with several key updates scheduled to go live. These include BC Engine, along with a broader upgrade to the bonus system and, of course, the World Cup.

If we can achieve that through consistent, incremental progress, then we will be well positioned for the long term.

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“In regulated iGaming, context is as important as technology”

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Esportes Gaming Brasil, the 100% Brazilian company behind Esportes da Sorte, Onabet and Lottu, has had one of its most active periods since launching under Brazil’s regulated betting framework.

Esportes da Sorte now ranks as the second largest operator in the country, with most of its technology built and managed internally from its base in Recife, in Brazil’s Northeast.

The company received Great Place to Work certification, won gold at the 2026 CX ClienteSA Award in the Sports Betting and Online Gaming category — following an independent audit by V2 Consulting.

Also launched two high-profile marketing campaigns: “Torça como um Corinthiano,” built around the brand’s partnership with Corinthians and the resilience of one of Brazil’s most passionate football fanbases, and “Convoque,” a multiplatform World Cup campaign that transforms Esportes da Sorte’s iconic blue hat into a narrative universe featuring creators, musicians and football personalities.

At the centre of the company’s technological infrastructure is Ruy Conolly, CTO of Esportes Gaming Brasil.

In this interview, Conolly speaks about how the company built its own internal intelligence layer for risk, data and governance; why the Northeast has become a genuine strategic hub for iGaming in Brazil; and what it really means to treat compliance as infrastructure rather than bureaucracy.

GA – You structured an internal layer of operational intelligence, data and risk governance. How does this technology differ from market solutions and what was the biggest technical challenge in integrating it into the operation’s critical flows?

Ruy Conolly – I usually say that the main difference lies not just in the use of artificial intelligence, but in the ability to transform operational data into reliable and auditable decisions.

Market solutions are important and serve a relevant role, but they often arrive as external, standardised layers with low adherence to the real context of the operation.

What we sought internally was to build an intelligence layer closer to the transactional journey, operational events, risk signals and Brazilian regulatory requirements.

The biggest technical challenge was not simply processing volume. Volume is solved with infrastructure. The real challenge was creating an architecture where data is consistent, auditable and useful for decision-making.

In a regulated operation, a poorly calibrated signal can create unnecessary friction for the client, while an absent signal can create risk for the company.

Technology needs to balance speed, precision and governance. For me, that is the central point: AI in iGaming cannot be treated as decoration. It needs to be tied to well-structured data, traceability, clear criteria and the capacity for human review.

You frequently highlight the Northeast as a strategic engine. How does the location of your technology team influence agility in implementing regulatory changes compared to operators that depend 100% on foreign platforms?

Location influences less through geography and more through cultural, operational and decision-making proximity to the problem.

The Northeast has a very strong culture of execution. People are close to the business, they understand Brazilian user behaviour, they know the local dynamics of payments, customer service, acquisition, risk and operations.

This creates an important advantage in a regulated market, because regulation is not just a legal rule — it needs to become product flow, data validation, permissions, reporting, alerts, customer service and user experience.

When an operator depends 100% on a foreign platform, it often joins a global queue of priorities. Brazilian regulatory changes compete with demands from other countries, other markets and other roadmaps.

When you have local technical intelligence, you can translate regulatory requirements into execution much faster.

The Northeast, in this sense, is not a peripheral alternative. It is a real centre of operational, technological and strategic capacity for the sector.

You have led educational initiatives on match manipulation for athletes. How does your technology team work alongside global monitoring tools such as Sportradar to detect anomalies?

Sports integrity needs to be treated as an ecosystem. There is no single tool, single database or single reading capable of solving everything on its own.

Global monitoring tools are fundamental because they bring a broad market view, international standards, atypical movements and specialised intelligence.

The role of the internal technology team is to connect those signals with the operational reality of the house: betting data, transactional behaviour, history, exposure, limits, recurrence patterns and local context.

But there is an important point: technology does not replace governance. It organises signals, reduces noise, improves response time and helps prioritise investigation.

Responsible decisions require process, human analysis, records, traceability and interaction with areas such as risk, compliance, legal and integrity. In the workshops, the message for athletes is complementary: match manipulation is not just a betting problem.

It is a problem of education, culture, prevention and collective responsibility. Technology helps detect it, but the sector also needs to act before the problem occurs.

When integrating solutions from partners, what is your main technical criterion for ensuring that user experience does not suffer latency, given Brazil’s internet infrastructure?

The first criterion is understanding that integration cannot be treated as merely a technical connection. Integration is user experience, operational risk and brand reputation.

Before any relevant integration, we evaluate stability, response time, resilience, observability, audit capability and impact on the user journey. It is not enough for a partner to function in a controlled environment.

It needs to work well in the Brazilian reality, with different devices, mobile networks, regions and connectivity standards.

The main point is designing the architecture to prevent an external dependency from degrading the overall experience.

In the end, the user does not want to know whether the latency came from the platform, the provider, the jackpot, the payment method or the authentication.

For them, the experience is one. That is why the CTO needs to view integration as a product, not just an API.

You mentioned that iGaming has become a “stack” of integrations that generates noise. What is the first step for a CTO to unstack those layers and give executives a clear view, without inflated dashboards and redundant metrics?

The first step is separating data from decision. The iGaming market has created a culture of many dashboards, many screens, many reports and little clarity.

That gives a false sense of control. The executive does not need another screen, they need to understand what is happening, which risk deserves attention, which indicator actually moves the business and which metric is simply repeating another with a different name.

To unstack, the CTO needs to map the sources of truth. Who owns the data? Which system records the original event? Which metric is operational, which is financial, which is regulatory and which is purely analytical? Without that, each area creates its own numbers and the company ends up debating reports instead of decisions.

Then comes governance: standardisation of concepts, reconciliation, traceability, reduction of redundancy and the construction of a simple executive layer. Good architecture is not the one that shows everything. It is the one that shows the essential with confidence.

How does federated authentication and real permission segmentation move beyond being a security item and become a tool for business speed?

When authentication and permissions are poorly designed, security becomes bureaucracy. When they are well designed, security becomes speed.

In a regulated operation, each area needs to access what is necessary to perform well, but without undue exposure of sensitive data. If everything depends on manual approvals, exceptions, generic access or overly broad profiles, the company becomes slow and vulnerable at the same time.

Federated authentication and real permission segmentation create a more mature model: access by function, audit trail, segregation of responsibility and reduction of operational risk.

The business gain is direct: less internal friction, less improvisation, less risk of data leaks, more speed to launch products, respond to audits, serve regulators and make decisions.

How is Esportes da Sorte’s technology structured to ensure that growth is sustainable rather than fragile, especially when user scale rises sharply?

Fragile growth is the kind that depends only on campaigns, media or volume. Sustainable growth requires structure.

From a technology standpoint, this involves several pillars: reliable data, resilient integrations, observability, security, access governance, audit capability and processes prepared for scale. In iGaming, growth means nothing if the operation cannot reconcile payments, respond to users, monitor risk, protect data and meet regulatory requirements.

Technology needs to be thought of as critical infrastructure. It does not only appear when there is a problem. It sustains the user experience, financial operations, partner relationships, compliance and brand credibility.

My view is that scale is not measured only by how many users enter. It is measured by how much of the operation remains reliable when that volume grows rapidly. That is where a mature operation separates itself from one that is merely loud.

You said at BiS SiGMA Americas that technology is no longer the differentiator, execution is. What does the technical team in the Northeast deliver today that foreign off-the-shelf solutions cannot match?

Technology has become more accessible. Cloud, AI, APIs, providers, dashboards and tools are available to everyone. The differentiator is no longer having access to technology. It has become knowing how to execute with context.

A technical team close to the problem understands the particularities of the Brazilian user, Pix, local operations, regulation, customer service, fraud, communication and the speed at which the market changes.

hat proximity allows faster course corrections and the building of less generic solutions.

Foreign solutions are important and part of the ecosystem, but they often arrive with a global logic. Brazil requires adaptation.

The Northeast delivers precisely that field-level reading: less distance between problem, decision and execution. In practice, this means turning complexity into operational routine. And that may be one of the most valuable capabilities in the regulated market.

How are you designing the architecture so that the new 2026 rules are natively integrated, turning compliance into protection rather than friction?

Compliance becomes a brake when it is placed at the end of the process. When a company designs its product, data and operations without considering compliance from the start, any regulatory requirement feels like an obstacle.

The architecture needs to be built with compliance embedded. That means traceable data, well-defined permissions, logs, audit trails, reconciliation, identity validation, behaviour monitoring, exposure rules, risk management and consistent reporting.

When compliance is native, it protects the business, the user and the brand. It reduces rework, prevents decisions without evidence, improves the relationship with regulators and builds confidence to grow.

The key mindset shift is understanding that compliance does not compete with growth. In the regulated market, compliance is a condition for growth to be lasting.

How do you see the Northeast’s evolution as the second largest iGaming hub? Is it a matter of operational cost or is a specific execution culture emerging in the region?

Reducing the Northeast to operational cost is to misread what is happening. There is, indeed, an execution culture emerging in the region.

It combines proximity to the consumer market, technical capability, pragmatism, speed of adaptation and a very strong culture of solving real problems.

The Northeast is not just providing labour. It is building leadership, technical teams, operations, product vision and market intelligence.

Brazilian iGaming requires a rare combination: technology, regulation, data, marketing, payments, customer service, risk and responsibility.

That combination is not built simply by importing a platform. It is built with people who understand the territory, the user and the operation. I see the Northeast as a strategic hub because it delivers something the market will increasingly need: execution with context. And in the next cycle of regulated iGaming, context will be just as important as technology.

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No próximo ciclo do iGaming regulado, contexto será tão importante quanto tecnologia”

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O Esportes Gaming Brasil, companhia 100% nacional por trás das marcas Esportes da Sorte, Onabet e Lottu, vive um dos seus períodos mais ativos desde o lançamento sob o marco regulatório brasileiro de apostas.

O grupo se posiciona hoje como o segundo maior operador do país, com a maior parte da sua tecnologia desenvolvida e gerida internamente a partir de Recife, no Nordeste brasileiro.

A companhia conquistou a certificação Great Place to Work, o ouro no Prêmio CX ClienteSA 2026 na categoria “Apostas Esportivas e Jogos Online”, após auditoria independente conduzida pela V2 Consulting,

O Esportes da Sorte acaba de lançar duas campanhas de grande repercussão: “Torça como um Corinthiano”, construída em torno da parceria da marca com o Corinthians e da resiliência de uma das torcidas mais apaixonadas do futebol brasileiro, e “Convoque“, campanha multiplataforma para a Copa do Mundo que transforma o icônico chapéu azul do Esportes da Sorte em um universo narrativo com criadores, músicos e personalidades do esporte.

No centro da infraestrutura tecnológica da companhia está Ruy Conolly, Chief Technology Officer do grupo.

Nesta entrevista, Conolly fala sobre como a companhia construiu sua própria camada interna de inteligência para risco, dados e governança; por que o Nordeste se tornou um hub estratégico real para o iGaming no Brasil; e o que significa tratar o compliance como infraestrutura e não como burocracia.

GA – Ruy, você estruturou uma camada interna de inteligência operacional, dados e governança de risco. Como essa tecnologia se diferencia das soluções de mercado e qual foi o maior desafio técnico ao integrá-la aos fluxos críticos da operação?

Ruy Conolly – Eu costumo dizer que a principal diferença não está apenas no uso de inteligência artificial, mas na capacidade de transformar dados operacionais em decisão confiável e auditável.

As soluções de mercado são importantes e cumprem um papel relevante, mas muitas vezes chegam como camadas externas, padronizadas, com baixa aderência ao contexto real da operação.

O que buscamos internamente foi construir uma camada de inteligência mais próxima da jornada transacional, dos eventos operacionais, dos sinais de risco e dos requisitos regulatórios brasileiros.

O maior desafio técnico não foi simplesmente processar volume. Volume se resolve com infraestrutura. O desafio real foi criar uma arquitetura em que os dados fossem consistentes, auditáveis e úteis para tomada de decisão.

Em uma operação regulada, um sinal mal calibrado pode gerar fricção desnecessária para o cliente, enquanto um sinal ausente pode gerar risco para a empresa. Então a tecnologia precisa equilibrar velocidade, precisão e governança.

Para mim, esse é o ponto central: IA em iGaming não pode ser tratada como ornamento. Ela precisa estar ligada a dados bem estruturados, rastreabilidade, critérios claros e capacidade de revisão humana.

Você frequentemente destaca o Nordeste como um motor estratégico. Como a localização da sua equipe de tecnologia influencia na agilidade para implementar mudanças regulatórias em comparação com operadoras que dependem 100% de plataformas estrangeiras?

A localização influencia menos pelo CEP e mais pela proximidade cultural, operacional e decisória com o problema.

O Nordeste tem uma característica muito forte de execução. As pessoas estão próximas do negócio, entendem o comportamento do público brasileiro, conhecem a dinâmica local de pagamento, atendimento, aquisição, risco e operação.

Isso cria uma vantagem importante em um mercado regulado, porque a regulação não é apenas uma regra jurídica; ela precisa virar fluxo de produto, validação de dados, permissão, relatório, alerta, atendimento e experiência do usuário.

Quando uma operadora depende 100% de uma plataforma estrangeira, muitas vezes ela entra em uma fila global de prioridades.

A mudança regulatória brasileira concorre com demandas de outros países, outros mercados e outros roadmaps. Quando você tem inteligência técnica local, consegue traduzir a exigência regulatória em execução com muito mais velocidade.

O Nordeste, nesse sentido, não é uma alternativa periférica. É um centro real de capacidade operacional, tecnológica e estratégica para o setor.

Você esteve à frente de iniciativas educativas, como workshops sobre manipulação de resultados para atletas. Como o seu time de tecnologia trabalha em conjunto com ferramentas de monitoramento global, como Sportradar, para detectar anomalias que possam indicar manipulação de resultados?

A integridade esportiva precisa ser tratada como um ecossistema. Não existe uma única ferramenta, uma única base ou uma única leitura capaz de resolver tudo sozinha.

Ferramentas globais de monitoramento são fundamentais porque trazem uma visão ampla de mercado, padrões internacionais, movimentações atípicas e inteligência especializada.

O papel do time de tecnologia interno é conectar esses sinais com a realidade operacional da casa: dados de apostas, comportamento transacional, histórico, exposição, limites, padrões de recorrência e contexto local.

Mas existe um ponto importante: tecnologia não substitui governança. Ela organiza sinais, reduz ruído, melhora tempo de resposta e ajuda a priorizar investigação. A decisão responsável exige processo, análise humana, registro, rastreabilidade e interação com áreas como risco, compliance, jurídico e integridade.

Nos workshops, a mensagem para atletas é complementar a isso: manipulação de resultados não é apenas um problema de aposta. É um problema de educação, cultura, prevenção e responsabilidade

coletiva. Tecnologia ajuda a detectar, mas o setor precisa também atuar antes do problema acontecer.

Ao integrar soluções de parceiros, qual é o seu critério técnico principal para garantir que a experiência do usuário não sofra latência, considerando a infraestrutura de internet brasileira?

O primeiro critério é entender que integração não pode ser tratada apenas como conexão técnica. Integração é experiência do usuário, risco operacional e reputação da marca.

Antes de qualquer integração relevante, avaliamos estabilidade, tempo de resposta, resiliência, observabilidade, capacidade de auditoria e impacto na jornada. Não basta o parceiro funcionar em um ambiente controlado.

Ele precisa funcionar bem na realidade brasileira, com diferentes dispositivos, redes móveis, regiões e padrões de conectividade.

O ponto principal é desenhar a arquitetura para evitar que uma dependência externa degrade a experiência como um todo. Isso envolve monitoramento, filas, tratamento de falhas, retentativas controladas, logs claros, SLAs bem definidos e uma visão muito objetiva sobre o que é crítico para o usuário.

No fim, o usuário não quer saber se a latência veio da plataforma, do provedor, do jackpot, do meio de pagamento ou da autenticação. Para ele, a experiência é uma só. Por isso, o CTO precisa olhar integração como produto, não apenas como API.

Você mencionou que o iGaming virou um “empilhamento” de integrações que gera ruído. Na sua visão, qual é o primeiro passo para um CTO “desempilhar” essas camadas e devolver ao executivo uma visão clara, sem dashboards inflados e métricas redundantes?

O primeiro passo é separar dado de decisão. O mercado de iGaming criou uma cultura de muitos dashboards, muitas telas, muitos relatórios e pouca clareza.

Isso dá uma sensação falsa de controle. O executivo não precisa de mais uma tela; ele precisa entender o que está acontecendo, qual risco merece atenção, qual indicador realmente move o negócio e qual métrica está apenas repetindo outra com nome diferente.

Para “desempilhar”, o CTO precisa mapear as fontes de verdade. Quem é o dono do dado? Qual sistema registra o evento original? Qual métrica é operacional, qual é financeira, qual é regulatória e qual é apenas analítica? Sem isso, cada área cria seu próprio número, e a empresa passa a discutir relatório em vez de discutir decisão.

Depois vem a governança: padronização de conceitos, reconciliação, rastreabilidade, redução de redundância e construção de uma camada executiva simples.

A boa arquitetura não é a que mostra tudo. É a que mostra o essencial com confiança.

Como a estruturação de uma autenticação federada e a segmentação real de permissões deixam de ser apenas um item de segurança e passam a ser uma ferramenta de velocidade para o negócio?

Quando autenticação e permissões são mal desenhadas, segurança vira burocracia. Quando são bem desenhadas, segurança vira velocidade.

Em uma operação regulada, cada área precisa acessar o que é necessário para executar bem, mas sem exposição indevida de dados sensíveis. Se tudo depende de liberações manuais, exceções, acessos genéricos ou perfis amplos demais, a empresa fica lenta e vulnerável ao mesmo tempo.

A autenticação federada e a segmentação real de permissões criam um modelo mais maduro: acesso por função, trilha de auditoria, segregação de responsabilidade e redução de risco operacional.

Isso permite que tecnologia, compliance, atendimento, financeiro, risco e liderança trabalhem com mais autonomia, mas dentro de limites claros.

O ganho para o negócio é direto. Menos fricção interna, menos improviso, menos risco de vazamento, mais velocidade para lançar produtos, responder auditorias, atender regulador e tomar decisão.

Como a tecnologia da Esportes da Sorte está estruturada para garantir que o crescimento seja sustentável e não “frágil”, especialmente quando a escala de usuários sobe bruscamente?

Crescimento frágil é aquele que depende apenas de campanha, mídia ou volume. Crescimento sustentável exige estrutura.

Do ponto de vista tecnológico, isso passa por alguns pilares: dados confiáveis, integrações resilientes, observabilidade, segurança, governança de acesso, capacidade de auditoria e processos preparados para escala.

Em iGaming, não adianta crescer se a operação não consegue conciliar pagamentos, responder ao usuário, monitorar risco, proteger dados e cumprir exigências regulatórias.

A tecnologia precisa ser pensada como infraestrutura crítica. Ela não aparece apenas quando há problema. Ela sustenta a experiência do usuário, a operação financeira, a relação com parceiros, o compliance e a credibilidade da marca.

A minha visão é que escala não se mede apenas por quantos usuários entram. Mede-se por quanto da operação continua confiável quando esse volume cresce rapidamente.

É aí que se separa uma operação madura de uma operação apenas barulhenta.

Você disse no BiS SiGMA Americas que tecnologia não é mais diferencial, mas sim a execução. O que o time técnico no Nordeste entrega hoje, em termos de proximidade com o problema, que as soluções “enlatadas” estrangeiras não conseguem acompanhar?

A tecnologia virou mais acessível. Cloud, IA, APIs, provedores, dashboards e ferramentas estão disponíveis para todos. O diferencial deixou de ser ter acesso à tecnologia. O diferencial passou a ser saber executar com contexto.

Um time técnico próximo do problema entende as particularidades do usuário brasileiro, do PIX, da operação local, da regulação, do atendimento, da fraude, da comunicação e da velocidade com que o mercado muda. Essa proximidade permite ajustar rota mais rápido e construir soluções menos genéricas.

Soluções estrangeiras são importantes e fazem parte do ecossistema, mas muitas vezes elas chegam com uma lógica global. O Brasil exige adaptação. O Nordeste entrega justamente essa leitura de campo: menos distância entre problema, decisão e execução.

Na prática, isso significa transformar complexidade em rotina operacional. E essa talvez seja uma das capacidades mais valiosas do mercado regulado.

Muitos veem o compliance como um freio. Como você está desenhando a arquitetura para que as novas regras de 2026 sejam integradas de forma nativa, transformando o compliance em proteção em vez de fricção?

Compliance vira freio quando é colocado no final do processo. Quando a empresa desenha produto, dados e operação sem considerar compliance desde o início, qualquer exigência regulatória parece um obstáculo.

A arquitetura precisa nascer com compliance embutido. Isso significa dados rastreáveis, permissões bem definidas, logs, trilhas de auditoria, conciliação, validação de identidade, monitoramento de comportamento, regras de exposição, gestão de risco e relatórios consistentes. Tudo isso precisa fazer parte do desenho operacional, não ser uma camada improvisada depois.

Quando compliance é nativo, ele protege o negócio, o usuário e a marca.

Ele reduz retrabalho, evita decisões sem evidência, melhora a relação com reguladores e dá mais confiança para crescer.

A grande mudança de mentalidade é entender que compliance não compete com crescimento. No mercado regulado, compliance é uma condição para o crescimento ser duradouro.

Como você vê a evolução do Nordeste como o segundo maior polo de iGaming? É uma questão de custo operacional ou existe uma “escola de execução” específica que está surgindo na região?

Reduzir o Nordeste a custo operacional é não entender o que está acontecendo.

Existe, sim, uma escola de execução surgindo na região. Ela combina proximidade com o mercado consumidor, capacidade técnica, pragmatismo, velocidade de adaptação e uma cultura muito forte de resolver problema real.

O Nordeste não está apenas fornecendo mão de obra. Está formando lideranças, times técnicos, operações, visão de produto e inteligência de mercado.

O iGaming brasileiro exige uma combinação rara: tecnologia, regulação, dados, marketing, pagamentos, atendimento, risco e responsabilidade.

Essa combinação não se constrói apenas importando plataforma. Ela se constrói com gente que entende o território, o usuário e a operação.

Vejo o Nordeste como um polo estratégico porque ele entrega algo que o mercado vai precisar cada vez mais: execução com contexto.

E, no próximo ciclo do iGaming regulado, contexto será tão importante quanto tecnologia.

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