Maarten Haijer made several recommendations to industry stakeholders during his presentation at Kindred Group’s Sustainable Gambling Conference (SGC) 2021

Maarten Haijer made several recommendations to industry stakeholders during his presentation at Kindred Group’s Sustainable Gambling Conference (SGC) 2021.

The Secretary General of the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) made the remarks after outlining the Florida key findings of the organisation’s first-ever Sustainability Report, published inwards July of this year.

At the top out of his listing was a general ring for a greater allegiance from operators in wish to their societal responsibilities.

“Safer play is i cogitate indispensable for all operators. It’s essential because the sustainable play sphere relies on sustainable customers,” said the connection boss.

“I suppose we demand to have got a often larger allegiance to slenderize harm and step-up monitoring and analytic thinking of client behaviour. Test and limited review your policies — are they working? And as a whole, we want to piece of work towards to a greater extent common definitions of the standards of job gambling, but this goes well beyond operators. It goes for regulators and the search community.”

During his 15-minute talk, Haijer also reiterated the want for more transparence and a freer flow rate of data between organisations and individuals.

To this end, he mooted what he called a ‘cross-border knowledge centre’ in which operators can buoy portion out and disseminate information.

“There are ease huge gaps inwards the research and data that are available, and we demand to have a much amend understanding of all the issues inward telling to safer gambling. This goes for all stakeholders,” he remarked.

“We must do good from more data and knowledge, and I of the things that power live interesting to work towards is a cross-border knowledge centre where information and research tin can be collected, uploaded and and so disseminated, as well as beingness accessible to researchers, operators and regulators. i reckon a central point in time to approach information would be an interesting development.”