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Responsible Gambling Tips to Elevate Player Experience
In anticipation of European Safer Gambling Week 2023, SOFTSWISS, a technology company providing comprehensive solutions for the iGaming industry, shares valuable tips on ensuring the best responsible gambling practices.
Responsible gambling holds a special place within SOFTSWISS, harmonising with both licence requirements and its core values. Each licence obtained brings a distinct responsible gambling mandate, complete with specific documentation, guidelines, and directives. Rigorous internal audits demonstrate SOFTSWISS’ commitment beyond compliance, coupled with ongoing employee training for meticulous adherence to stipulations, ensuring an unmatched player experience.
In response to dynamic licence requirements, the multifunctional Anti-Fraud Team at SOFTSWISS, entrusted with diverse responsibilities, including ensuring Responsible Gambling, has crafted its proprietary approach to the issue through in-house research. Since the beginning of the year, the team has processed more than 26K requests encompassing lockout of problematic players, analysing notifications concerning at-risk players and managing player reactivations.
Ilya Nesterov, Anti-Fraud Team Lead, comments: “We are observing a steady increase in the number of players under monitoring, driven by our expanded analysis of information, indicators, and metrics. Our team is paying more attention to vulnerable groups of players, implementing dedicated monitoring segments, differentiated by factors such as age, duration and time of activity, day or night.”
Being a technology company specialising in iGaming software, SOFTSWISS is crafting an automatic tool to monitor players for suspicious behaviours and evaluate the associated risk levels, leveraging the full spectrum of available metrics and indicators.
SOFTSWISS’ diligent efforts to enhance responsible gambling practices are guided by the following principles:
- Knowledge Power: SOFTSWISS fortifies its dedicated team through rigorous and comprehensive training programs, cultivating them into fervent advocates for responsible gambling. This approach ensures not only proficiency but also instils a profound understanding of the paramount significance of player safety within the iGaming industry.
- Player Empowerment: Players are provided with a suite of tools, including options to set deposit limits, session durations, and self-exclusion measures. The emphasis is on educating players about the availability and functionality of these tools, ultimately empowering them to regain control over their gaming experience.
- Analytics and Alerts: SOFTSWISS experts continuously develop cutting-edge data analytics tools to monitor player behaviour, detect unusual patterns, and promptly address red flags, contributing to a safer gambling environment.
- Quarterly Analysis: The Anti-Fraud Team delves into the data showing a consistent upward trend in responsible gambling requests. This indicates the need for evolving tools and methods to address challenges effectively.
- Operator and Customer-Centric Procedures: Educating operators and prioritising customer well-being establishes a win-win scenario for all stakeholders, culminating in an exceptional player experience and fostering business growth.
- Regular Check-Ups: Periodic audits and assessments keep responsible gambling policies sharp and effective.
- Open Dialogues: Maintaining open channels of communication with departments, managers, and operators creates a partnership focused on safer gambling.
The SOFTSWISS Managed Services team is gearing up for the upcoming SiGMA Europe 2023, scheduled to be held in Malta from 14 to 16 November. The team is actively preparing for the meetings with partners and potential clients at stand 2129.
About SOFTSWISS
SOFTSWISS is an international iGaming company supplying ISO 27001-certified software solutions for managing gambling operations. The expert team, which counts 1,700 employees, is based in Malta, Poland, Georgia, and Belarus. SOFTSWISS holds a number of gaming licences and provides one-stop-shop iGaming software solutions. The company has a vast product portfolio, including the Online Casino Platform, the Game Aggregator with thousands of casino games, the Affilka affiliate platform, the Sportsbook Software and the Jackpot Aggregator. In 2013, SOFTSWISS was the first in the world to introduce a Bitcoin-optimised online casino solution.
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Week 46/2024 slot games releases
Here are this weeks latest slots releases compiled by European Gaming
Spinomenal has welcomed another title into its Wildlife Series, Majestic Bison. Set in the Wild West, Majestic Bison surrounds players in a landscape populated with wild wolves, elegant eagles, fearsome snakes and formidable goats. A stripped back soundtrack captures the essence of the Wild West, with banjos and harmonicas immersing players in the action as they hunt for gold.
PG Soft, a world-class digital mobile games company, is celebrating the magic of the Rio de Janeiro Carnival with the release of its new slot, Rio Fantasia. A young dancer named Isabella is the star of the show as players join in the rhythm and passion of one of the world’s most spectacular parties. Rio Fantasia is a 3-reel, 3-row video slot featuring Stacked Wild symbols, multipliers, and respin until win.
Hölle Games has released Jumpin’ Jacks, a new Classic title featuring a special Duplicating Wilds mechanic. This 5×3, 15 payline slot has a theme of Halloween harvest, with scarecrows, pumpkins, corn, crows and a creepy midnight sky completing the picture. The atmosphere is there to match, with a cosy yet somewhat spooky soundtrack.
Belatra Games, the specialist online slots developer, has served up Cafe Pin-Up, a slot that whisks players away to a vibrant 1950s diner, where retro glamour meets thrilling gameplay. Players take a seat inside a charming cafe, where pin-up girls are on hand to deliver delicious dishes in a raucous atmosphere created by a jukebox playing toe-tapping tunes. The game is presented in a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines with the Pin-Up Girl Wild symbol playing the key role.
New from Peter & Sons comes Muddy Waters, a game that will send your Geiger counter up to 11. This high-volatility and highly radioactive slot comes packed with symbol multipliers, power-ups and a unique fishing mechanic. Muddy Waters riffs on the popular fishing-slot genre, but since this is the weird and wonderful world of Peter & Sons, it gets flipped on its head, because this game is about reeling in radioactive fish.
Relax Gaming, the iGaming aggregator and provider of unique content, is getting players into the festive spirit with its latest release, Money Sleigh, a Christmas-themed slot guaranteed to deliver stocking-filled fun and the chance to unwrap big wins. Santa and his team of loyal helpers are ready to guide players through this exciting holiday adventure, with the potential to win up to 10,000x their stake.
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AGREEMENT BETWEEN ZITRO AND GRUPO OSGA TO PROMOTE THE LABOT INTEGRATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Zitro, a leading company in the gaming industry, has signed a collaboration agreement with Grupo OSGA, a business group committed to promoting the employment of people with disabilities. Grupo OSGA offers job opportunities to people with disabilities and supports their professional development in inclusive and accessible environments.
Through this alliance, Grupo OSGA will provide Zitro with a parcel and documentation service between its offices, optimizing Zitro’s operational efficiency and strengthening its social commitment to creating a more inclusive work environment.
At Zitro, we firmly believe in the power of diversity as a driver of growth and development. This collaboration with Grupo OSGA not only enriches our company but also reinforces our commitment to contributing to a fairer and more inclusive society,” said Albert Zorrilla, Managing Director of Zitro for Spain.
“The collaboration with a prestigious international company like Zitro not only constitutes recognition of the work that Grupo OSGA has been carrying out but also contributes to the generation of real opportunities for people with disabilities to achieve effective and stable integration in the labor market,” said Oscar Galilea, President of Grupo Osga.
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EGT Digital’s iGaming platform X-Nave and successful titles to deliver high-quality experience to BetHub’s customers
BetHub and EGT Digital have started their successful partnership, as a result of which the leading Bulgarian operator is now using the iGaming platform X-Nave. Its 4 main modules: CRM Engine, Sport product, Gaming Aggregator and Payment Gateway, enable the betting site to effectively manage all online gaming business verticals and further improve its performance.
CRM Engine provides a wide range of player management tools and bonus features, allowing the operator to create more personalized offerings for its customers, based on their preferences and behavior.
Through X-Nave’s Sport product BetHub will enrich even more the sport content it offers.
The Payment Gateway gives access to numerous payment methods and thanks to the Gaming Aggregator EGT Digital’s slot games are already at the disposal of the website’s visitors. The top-performing titles from Bell Link, Clover Chance, High Cash, Single Progressive Jackpot, as well as the multiplayer game xRide quickly gained popularity among BetHub’s customers.
“We are very glad with our collaboration with EGT Digital so far,” commented Kiril Naldzhiev, CEO at BetHub. “The platform has made the management of our business much easier, and the company’s gaming content has shown impressive results that have not only met but exceeded our expectations.”
Tsvetomira Drumeva, Head of Sales at EGT Digital, also gave a positive evaluation to the cooperation. She said: “Partnering with a prominent operator like BetHub is very valuable for us, as it gives us the opportunity to demonstrate the enormous potential of our developments and consolidate our status as a leader in the local market. I am confident that this is the beginning of a very successful collaboration that will bring a lot of positives to both companies and the players themselves.”
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