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Why the Parimatch Platform nominated for The platform of the year award
Every year, SBC Awards observe the achievements of the entertainment industry’s best operators, affiliates, suppliers, and payment providers. Parimatch Tech was nominated in the category Platform provider of the year this year. Let’s figure out key benchmarks for nomination by the case of Parimatch Tech.
What is the Platform provider of the year award?
The platform provider of the year award has been created to recognise the best standalone platform provider of 2022, servicing the sports betting industry. Industry experts from the SBC jury consider the provider’s success, stability, flexibility and geographical reach.
Benchmark #1: synergy between business’s ambitions and development
As the core of Parimatch Tech’s product, the Parimatch Platform serves 130 million daily transactions for 17 brands and over 20 apps.
The Parimatch platform was born from the business’s ambitions to grow faster and expand in new markets. For such purposes, the platform team developed its components less dependent on each other.
The development of the Parimatch platform lasted less than two years, which is relatively fast compared to 3-4 years of development for competitors. A huge challenge was finishing the platform development and migrating users from the previous platform before the significant sports event. And Parimatch Tech teams did it — complete migration was ready just in time before the UEFA Euro 2020, which was postponed to June and July 2021.
Benchmark #2: stability of the services
Parimatch Tech has nine R&D centres worldwide, where more than 1000 IT specialists cover the development and infrastructure support of the Parimatch platform entirely.
Since the 1st day of the war in Ukraine, where the leading R&D centre is located, the company implemented an operation and infrastructure crisis plan. Thus, despite the danger of missile attacks in Kyiv, the end customers didn’t feel any trouble with services.
The platform seamlessly serves 200,000 active users at the same time. The core processes 7,000 financial transactions per second, and at peak loads, this number reaches 20,000 transactions per second with a latency of 25 ms at 95 pt.
The company has built a notification system for incidents, automatically resolving some place bets issues or directly addressing them to the responsible specialist. Thanks to that system, the Mean time to repair (MTTP) for most business incidents is less than 30 min in 90.9% of cases.
Parimatch Tech integrates services of the well-known technological giants such as AWS, Google, Cloudflare, Salesforce, Betgenius, Betradar, and more to enable most tech services and enhance product quality. Furthermore, Parimatch Tech’s data security ecosystem complies with PCI DSS worldwide standards, guaranteeing security mechanics’ reliability.
“The war in Ukraine forced Parimatch Tech to set a course for advanced business model diversification with global expansion. And our product is ready for that challenge because the Parimatch Platform was meant for that. Can’t wait to test our infrastructure under growing peak loads.” — Arthur Ashirov, Vice President of Engineering at Parimatch Tech.
Benchmark #3: flexibility
Parimatch Tech uses a hybrid infrastructure approach, enabling it to host cloud and data centre infrastructure services.
The Parimatch platform is always prepared for peak loads thanks to autoscaling based on AI predictions. As the result of the predictions and autoscaling, the platform handles all bet settlements at peak load times during top sports events without any downtimes.
Furthermore, the Parimatch Platform includes the content recommendation engine as the core part of a personalised gaming experience with an adaptive user interface. Build-in integrated experiment platform provides programmatically adjusting and tuning products to customers just in time.
Benchmark #4: Geographical reach
For example, Parimatch Tech’s strategic partnerships with AWS, Google, Cloudflare, and Salesforce make it possible to provide company products to customers on every continent. For example, such solutions make it possible for businesses to operate in African countries as if the entire infrastructure is located on the African continent.
The Parimatch platform serves the Parimatch Brand and company partners in Ukraine, India, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Nigeria, and Tanzania. After the war in Ukraine began, Parimatch Tech withdrew its franchise and stopped platform operations on the territory of the Russian Federation. Moreover, Belorussian teams are no longer a part of Parimatch Tech holding, so the company stopped platform operations and withdrew the Parimatch brand from the Belorussian market.
This year together with Parimatch Tech were nominated Aspire Global, BETCONSTRUCT, PLAYTECH, OpenBet, Digitain and other prominent industry suppliers. The SBC Awards 2022 ceremony will take place on 22 September at Barcelona. It is a worth noticing event for all who interested in betting and gabling industry development.
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Rising Bonus Abuse in Sports Betting: Fraudsters Leveraging Hidden AI Powered Bots

As digitalisation sweeps through the industry, the sports betting market has flourished. Taking betting online has made the experience more accessible, convenient, and interactive than ever. Artificial intelligence (AI) has made a big splash in recent years, giving sportsbooks access to more detailed data analytics. AI doesn’t only benefit sportsbooks however, as fraudsters have taken advantage of the technology for more malicious purposes. If sportsbooks don’t take action now, they face rapid losses to their budgets.
Sportsbooks frequently invest in pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns to drive first-time depositors (FTDs), using promotions such as bonuses to attract new users. However, these bonuses are a prime target for fraudsters, who leverage advances in AI to exploit them—driving fake sign-ups that drain budgets without delivering genuine new players.
To accomplish this, bad actors program AI-powered bots to rapidly create new accounts and take advantage of promotions without ever generating a conversion on the site. Bot networks like this are detrimental to advertising budgets, being responsible for nearly 40% of click fraud according to FraudLogix.
Most sportsbooks have fraud management systems in place to intercept and block these bad actors during the sign-up process. However, this does not prevent bots from clicking on paid search ads in the first place, driving up costs and draining marketing budgets before fraud can even be detected.
Sportsbooks need to take it upon themselves to develop a proactive strategy to identify fraudulent engagement. Without a strategy in place, sportsbooks risk significant profit loss and distorted campaign metrics.
Evolving Fraud tactics
Sportsbooks have been reaping the rewards of digitalisation, but this increased success comes with a hidden cost. The success of the industry has drawn the attention of bad actors, and with AI they pose a bigger threat than ever. Bad actors can now program AI bots to convincingly behave as a human user would. Bots can then carry out repetitive tasks repeatedly, allowing fraudsters to create floods of them to interfere with campaigns.
The PPC campaigns utilised by sportsbooks are often targeted by bots which repeatedly click on these paid ads. This drives up ad revenue for the publisher drastically, as bots increase the overall customer acquisition costs (CACs).
To carry out an attack, fraudsters use hosting servers. These servers can be used to store large amounts of data. From here, bad actors can then disguise themselves using a residential Internet Service Provider (ISP) to blend in with other users. Bad actors can mask their real location by routing their connection through a different server. This is typically carried out by using a residential IP address through a residential proxy, making the fraudster appear like a legitimate user to trick systems.
Fraudsters are experts at covering their tracks, as they can program bots to delete their information and cookies after clicking on a paid ad. Bots can then carry out the task on repeat by switching to a different device to appear as a new user. Fraudulent clicks from bots increase market expenditure without leading to a legitimate conversion, draining resources, and diluting return on investment (ROI). The problem is plaguing the industry as bots are responsible for approximately 24% of all clicks according to Imperva, and the risk is only increasing.
Bots Taking Advantage of Paid Promotions
A great way for sportsbooks to capture a new audience is through one-time special promotions. Bonuses like these are a popular hook, and encourage players to keep betting, even after the bonus funds are used up. Most of these promotions are offered once per account, but fraudsters can use bots to manipulate the system. These bots are programmed to generate multiple fake accounts and abuse the bonus repeatedly. Funds intended to drive FTDs are then diverted by bots without delivering genuine value, significantly draining resources.
Fraudulent traffic negatively impacts future campaigns as bot activity skews metrics. An influx of bot activity provides marketers with false positive results. Sportsbooks will then mistakenly direct more funds to these campaigns, setting them up for future losses and more bot activity.
Legacy fraud tools typically concentrate on the sign-up stage, targeting and blocking fraud there. However, this tactic doesn’t stop bots from siphoning media spend beforehand. Differentiating between sophisticated bots and legitimate traffic is difficult for these tools, allowing fraudsters to act before they can be identified. Attacks are on the rise, and if sportsbooks fail to take the necessary precautions to protect themselves against fraudulent clicks, they face considerable losses.
Utilising Transparency to Tackle Fraud
To ensure marketing efforts aren’t wasted and first-time depositors can be reached, sportsbooks need a strategy in place to combat fraud. Sportsbooks should be analysing their traffic for any sign of potential bot activity before they suffer multiple losses.
Monitoring traffic allows sportsbooks to identify irregular engagement, such as high bounce or click rates, or traffic from suspicious locations. To identify bots before they can impact campaigns, sportsbooks should continuously monitor their traffic for anomalies like these so they can be dealt with.
Fake accounts run by bots are a growing problem for sportsbooks, therefore sportsbooks should deploy strong identity verification alongside a trusted partner. This prevents fraudsters from creating multiple accounts to exploit promotions by forcing them to prove their identity.
Sportsbooks can also set click frequency limits for users. Setting limits prevents a particular user from repeatedly clicking on the same paid ad campaign. Bots are especially vulnerable to this tactic, preventing them from driving up costs by blocking them with a click threshold.
Ending Bonus Abuse
Digitalisation has provided both opportunities and complex challenges for sportsbooks. The pivot towards online betting has presented sportsbooks with the chance to reach a whole new audience. However, sportsbooks can’t truly capitalise on this new opportunity as long as bots are draining budgets behind the scenes.
To protect their advertising investments, sportsbooks need to take action. Sportsbooks need to take control of their traffic and identify any bot activity before bad actors have the chance to take advantage. By taking an active role in their defence, sportsbooks can ensure their bonuses stay strictly in the hands of their real audience.
Article by Chad Kinlay, Chief Marketing Officer, TrafficGuard
A driven, open-minded, creative senior marketer with a strong sense of dedication and commitment. With over 15 years of progressive international experience in marketing and communications management, Kinlay has a credible history of commercial success.
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Sweet Fortune Megaways: A Sweet Slot with Free Spins and Expanding, Multiplying Wilds

MGA Games has announced the launch of its new slot, Sweet Fortune Megaways, in the .com markets on August 25th. This game transports players to Sugarland, a magical universe made of sweets and candy. Set in the city of Candyville, where chocolate rivers and caramel streets create a unique atmosphere, the title features the Megaways mechanic and promises a memorable experience.
The gameplay is full of surprises. Players can enter a majestic candy palace through the Free Spins screen, where prizes multiply and a mini game is activated inside the Grand Prize Hall. This combination of mechanics, setting, and interactive elements has been designed to maximize user engagement.
Among its main innovations are random multiplying Wilds (x2, x3), expanding Wilds, and the Megaways structure, which allows for thousands of possible combinations with each spin. Additionally, this marks the first time MGA Games has embraced a candy-themed slot, aligning with the most popular trends in the gaming and entertainment sectors.
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EGT Digital’s games are available to Bangbet’s customers in Tanzania

EGT Digital and Bangbet have once again strengthened their collaboration. After the impressive results in Kenya and Nigeria, the customers of the popular operator in Tanzania can now enjoy the Bulgarian provider’s gaming content. Players are able to choose among more than 150 in-house developed slot titles, the crash game xRide, as well as the jackpot bestsellers Bell Link, High Cash, Clover Chance, Single Progressive Jackpot, and Gods & Kings Link.
“I am very happy that our games are already live in another key market for Bangbet,” commented Zsuzsanna Zeibig, Sales Manager for Africa at EGT Digital. “By extending our reach to Tanzania, one of East Africa’s fastest-growing iGaming markets, we expand our brand visibility and further strengthen our strategic position on the continent. Each new step with Bangbet confirms our role as a trusted partner and supports our long-term growth ambitions to reach more players across Sub-Saharan Africa.”
David Kabue Gichuhi, Director of Bangbet, also expressed his satisfaction with the partnership: “EGT Digital’s gaming products continue to demonstrate remarkable performance in all markets where we have integrated them to date, becoming our clients’ absolute favorites. The strong results in Kenya and Nigeria gave us the confidence to bring their content to Tanzania as well, and we are already seeing the same positive impact. This partnership is an important part of our business strategy and we look forward to introducing EGT Digital’s portfolio to players in Ghana and Uganda in the coming months.”
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