Data for Good: How Sharp Vision Is Pioneering The Future Of Responsible Gambling
The evolving landscape of AI and Generative AI, coupled with the ongoing digitalization trends underlines the importance of regulators to keep pace with the rapid advancements across all industries. Sharp Vision is leading the way in pioneering responsible gambling solutions that prioritize player protection and industry trust. Cyril Casanova, President, Sharp Vision shares how Sharp Vision is leading the charge in pioneering the future of responsible gambling.
Why regulators and the iGaming industry must join forces in leveraging data to protect players and build public trust
As digital transformation continues to shape industries, including the gambling sector, new avenues for entertainment and economic growth emerge – resulting in increased complexities and risks.
The gambling landscape now allows real-time tracking of player behaviors, cross-border betting facilitation and the utilization of algorithms that deeply understand users. These advancements provide regulators with both challenges and opportunities to navigate effectively.
At Sharp Vision, we emphasize the importance of shifting focus towards early detection, behavioral insights, meaningful and proactive prevention measures in response to these developments.
This shift is not just desirable but a critical step towards establishing a resilient and credible gaming ecosystem with a central focus on leveraging insightful data – where the sole emphasis is not just enforcement and adherence.
Prevention Is the New Compliance
It is imperative to understand the evolving landscape of online gambling regulation. The traditional frameworks crafted for brick-and-mortar establishments are finding it challenging to adapt to the fast-paced world of contemporary iGaming. The transition is evident: moving from a responsive enforcement approach to a proactive preventive strategy. As such, regulators are presented with a chance to proactively address issues by leveraging real-time behavioral insights. This empowers them to intervene and mitigate harm before it intensifies.
Whilst modern iGaming platforms generate a wealth of user data every second — session times, deposit frequencies, loss-chasing behavior, wager patterns, and more, without proper tools to structure, analyze and act on that data, its preventive potential becomes irrelevant.
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Our firm prides itself in providing solutions that help address these challenges. We specialize in empowering regulators with a digital oversight platform that can process large volumes of data in real time, flag behavioral anomalies and trigger early interventions — all whilst preserving player anonymity and aligning with local data protection laws such as GDPR.
This is not surveillance — this is smart regulation – where the focus is on prioritising insight over intrusion and proactivity over punishment.
Building a Player-Centric Regulatory Framework
There is a growing consensus in Europe and emerging African markets that regulation should go beyond enforcement to focus on protection. This shift emphasizes empowering individuals rather than enforcing paternalism.
Protection entails equipping users with tools for self-management, facilitating easy self-exclusion, offering timely nudges and proactively identifying and supporting at-risk individuals.
Therein lies the convergence between behavioral analytics and AI. Our solutions – now in deployment across several emerging markets, can detect patterns that indicate problem gambling — such as sudden increases in play intensity, erratic betting behavior or signs of financial overextension. Once flagged, tailored messages, time-outs or soft blocks can be deployed in real-time.
The result is a regulatory model that is humane, effective, and adaptive — where player protection is not just a checkbox, but a built-in feature of the system.
Collaboration Is No Longer Optional
Responsible gambling cannot rest solely on the shoulders of regulators — nor should it be seen as a burden by operators.
We believe in an ecosystem play – a collaborative model where regulators, operators and technology providers work together through shared standards and interoperable data systems.
Our goal at Sharp Vision is to ensure single pane visibility of key data that is accessible to all stakeholders — regulators, licensing bodies and operators alike.
Through our Central Monitoring Solution, we have enabled regulators to implement cross-operator data environments that improve transparency, harmonize responsible gambling protocols and accelerate incident response.
The results speak for themselves :
Sharp Vision’s digital platform has grown to become a strong reference in online monitoring and fiscal intelligence. Our verifiable references in Senegal, Mali, Benin and Guinea Conakry are testament to the robustness and impact of our solution. With over 62,000 websites scanned from our database, the platform has pinpointed numerous illegal sites that were a cause of capital flight – notably around 300 in Senegal, 100 in Benin and 80 in Guinea Conakry. In Benin, Fiscal revenues have since surged, multiplying by 3.5 post-platform implementation.
A New Generation of Regulation Needs New Tools
Across the board, regulatory authorities have varying levels of readiness (Ref: Sharp Vision’s proprietary 10 point maturity matrix).
Most jurisdictions rely on manual processes to monitor a rapidly evolving and digitized industry – some lack the digital infrastructure to enforce even the most basic responsible gambling requirements.
At Sharp Vision, we play a pivotal role in equipping regulators for this evolving landscape.
By offering modular, cloud-based solutions that can be deployed and scaled with ease, our tools enable real-time risk detection, centralized payment monitoring (including mobile money and crypto channels), AML compliance and licensing oversight – hence ensuring enhanced visibility, reporting and data driven decisions.
Most importantly, our systems are built for regulators – not retrofitted from commercial platforms – thus providing maximum transparency, audit and control.
In addition, we’re also very proud to be ISO 27001 certified – a testament to our commitment to data security, operational integrity and public sector-grade reliability.
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