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Prediction Markets Are Splitting the Gambling Supply Chain
Sportradar and Genius Sports have committed. Kambi has held back. Evolution sits outside the question. A primary-source reading of why each posture is rational, and which one wins. What this analysis covers The major listed B2B gambling suppliers have already made commercial decisions on prediction markets, before US regulation is settled. Sportradar and Genius Sports have leaned in. Kambi has identified the opportunity but is holding back, citing licence-risk exposure. Evolu
Evolution's Dividend Suspension Is Not a Crisis. It Is a Cost-of-Transition Signal.
What the live casino market leader's capital reallocation means for supplier pricing, operator procurement, and competitive positioning On 18 March 2026, Evolution AB's board proposed paying no dividend for the 2025 financial year — breaking a standing policy of distributing at least 50% of net profit annually and suspending a framework that had returned approximately EUR 3.5 billion to shareholders since 2020. The announcement has been read as a crisis signal. The evidence
The Supplier Squeeze: Who Owns the Margin Layer Now
The gambling supplier model is not collapsing. But it is being repriced, and the structural component of that repricing is stronger than most supplier executives currently admit. Most supplier commentary treats the current pressure as cyclical: tighter procurement, slower deal cycles, harder contract negotiations. Wait it out and spending loosens again. That reading is wrong. What is happening now is a convergence of tax shocks, regulatory cost inflation and falling internal
CTO in Focus
"CTO in Focus" Inon David, Wiztech Group & Winpot.mx
Inon David is CTO of both Wiztech Group and the regulated Mexican operator it powers, Winpot.mx — a dual remit that has shaped a specific view of where platform engineering effort should and should not go. He draws hard lines: stability and strict control around wallets, ledgers and atomic transactions; speed and flexibility around engagement, payments orchestration and back-office tooling; market-specific logic kept deliberately outside the core. That philosophy is being tes
"CTO in Focus" Sergey Kastukevich, SOFTSWISS
As CTO at SOFTSWISS, Sergey Kastukevich oversees the tech infrastructure powering the company's Casino, Sportsbook, and Game Aggregator solutions. He leads the company’s platforms through two significant industry transformations: the growing demand for configurable, performance-oriented systems and the increasing adoption of AI across the software development lifecycle. Sergey argues that the bottleneck has moved from how to build something to defining precisely what to build
"CTO in Focus" Witold Książek, Tequity
Integration complexity has quietly shaped more of the content supply chain than the industry tends to acknowledge — which studios reach operator platforms, how much pricing power incumbent suppliers retain, and how quickly content strategies can adapt to shifting player behaviour. That structural friction is weakening. Witold Książek , CTO of Tequity , works at the RGS layer where the shift is most visible, and his position is direct: the basic technical moat has dissolved f
Operator Intelligence
Operator Intelligence Profile: Bet365
Bet365 stands as the most consequential privately held operator in global online gambling — a Stoke-on-Trent enterprise that has scaled to £4.0bn in annual revenue without ever filing an S-1, ringing a bell on the LSE, or absorbing the M&A-driven consolidation that defines its publicly traded peers. For competitors, the company represents a uniquely insulated rival: free from quarterly earnings discipline, capable of absorbing multi-year losses to acquire US share, and underp
Operator Intelligence Profile: DraftKings Inc
DraftKings sits at the centre of a U.S. digital gaming duopoly that — alongside FanDuel — now controls 75-80% of the country's sports betting market. The company's competitive identity is built on a five-year migration away from outsourced technology toward a vertically integrated proprietary stack covering pricing, trading, account management and, most recently, prediction-market exchange infrastructure. For Bally's, Boyd, Caesars, Penn Entertainment, BetMGM and the rest of
Operator Intelligence Profile: PENN Entertainment Inc
PENN Entertainment, Inc. is the largest regional gaming and entertainment company in the United States by physical footprint, operating 42 retail casinos across 19 states alongside an integrated digital sports betting and iCasino business under theScore Bet and Hollywood Casino brands. Within the competitive set, PENN sits alongside Caesars Entertainment, Boyd Gaming, Churchill Downs, and Bally's as a diversified North American regional operator, but is structurally different
Press Releases
Scientific Games' new engineering leadership is a vendor consolidation signal
On 24 February 2026, Scientific Games named Rich Wasserman as SVP, Product Engineering, tasking him with leading engineering across its global lottery portfolio. The trade press has covered it as an appointment. It is more usefully read as a procurement signal and when set alongside a parallel hire made three weeks earlier, it points to a specific and consequential shift in how Scientific Games intends to manage its vendor relationships. Full announcement details are availabl
Why SOFTSWISS’ CTO appointment is more about execution posture than leadership change
An internal promotion that reflects how execution discipline is becoming a competitive variable for scaled B2B platforms. Most trade coverage will treat this as a straightforward internal promotion. That misses the sequencing and, more importantly, the context. SOFTSWISS has completed two senior technology appointments in close succession, elevating Sergey Kastukevich from Deputy CTO to Chief Technology Officer, following an earlier C-level hire Denis Romanovskiy the firm’s
Dabble’s UK casino move shifts the product rules and tests its social-first model
Dabble’s UK casino licence is being described as a straightforward expansion into iGaming. It is not. By securing full remote casino and virtual event betting permissions in Great Britain, Dabble has crossed into a product category where software integrity, responsible design, and evidencing controls outweigh engagement mechanics. The challenge is not access. It is whether a social-first wagering model can survive casino-grade regulation without being structurally constrain
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