{"id":10848,"date":"2025-10-17T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:46:26","slug":"softswiss-deepens-safer-play-as-platinum-partner-of-responsible-gambling-summit-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/softswiss-deepens-safer-play-as-platinum-partner-of-responsible-gambling-summit-2025","title":{"rendered":"SOFTSWISS deepens safer play as Platinum Partner of Responsible Gambling Summit 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The two-day summit, organised by the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation, brings together regulators, operators, and experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Press release.-\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/softswiss-launches-first-south-african-project-with-mzansibet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SOFTSWISS<\/a>\u00a0has partnered with South African entities for the\u00a0<strong>Responsible Gambling Summit 2025<\/strong>, reinforcing its commitment to safe, sustainable play in one of its key growth regions. The two-day summit, organised by the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation, brings together regulators, operators, and experts to advance harm minimisation and industry collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Responsible Gambling Summit 2025 will take place from&nbsp;<strong>November 13 to 14<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>Johannesburg, South Africa<\/strong>, and will include an awards gala dinner recognising initiatives in safer gambling. The programme spans policy, compliance, innovation, and public education, with sessions on illegal market impacts, regulatory development, and technology\u2019s role in prevention and intervention. A SOFTSWISS representative will join the panel discussion&nbsp;<strong>\u201cInnovation, Technology, and Responsible Gambling\u201d<\/strong>, which explores emerging risks and mitigation strategies in digital environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sibongile Simelane-Quntana<\/strong>, executive director at the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation, said: \u201cIndustry partnership is essential to keep responsible gambling and player protection visible, effective, and evidence-based across channels. We greatly value the commitment and partnership of prominent international companies, such as SOFTSWISS, whose support brings expertise and resources to these important initiatives in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Miranda Guliashvili<\/strong>, head of regional growth at <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/softswiss-report-south-africas-gambling-revenue-to-hit-e3-63bn-by-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SOFTSWISS<\/a>, added: \u201cSouth Africa is a priority market for SOFTSWISS, and we are proud to support this summit\u2019s mission to advance safer play through collaboration and technology. We continuously apply responsible gambling best practices in our products to help operators build sustainable, compliant growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building on this commitment, the SOFTSWISS\u00a0Anti-Fraud team has delivered measurable results: from January to August 2025, it prevented over EUR15m in fraudulent transactions, resolved <strong>more than 56,000 tasks<\/strong>, and processed 70 player complaints submitted to gaming regulators and forums. As fraud tactics evolve \u2013 including attempts to use AI-generated deepfakes during verification \u2013 SOFTSWISS is strengthening its tools and processes to help operators maintain a secure, transparent environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-day summit, organised by the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation, brings together regulators, operators, and experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":10850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":true,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"SOFTSWISS is partnering with the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation for the Responsible Gambling Summit 2025 in Johannesburg, reinforcing its commitment to sustainable play in a key growth market. The summit will address policy, compliance, innovation, and technology's role in harm minimisation, with SOFTSWISS contributing expertise on emerging risks and fraud prevention. This collaboration underscores the importance of industry-wide efforts to enhance player protection and regulatory frameworks in the South African iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"SOFTSWISS, South African Responsible Gambling Foundation, Sibongile Simelane-Quntana, Miranda Guliashvili","focusai_location":"South Africa, Johannesburg","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.8), tech_data (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"SOFTSWISS South Africa Strategy","query":"How does SOFTSWISS's participation in the Responsible Gambling Summit 2025 align with its broader market entry and B2B licensing strategy for the South African iGaming jurisdiction?"},{"label":"Regulatory Impact Analysis","query":"What specific policy or regulatory changes are anticipated from the Responsible Gambling Summit 2025 that could impact B2C operator licensing requirements or B2B supplier compliance frameworks in South Africa?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[60018,60011],"tags":[2279],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-partner-news","category-south-africa","tag-softswiss","press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10849,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions\/10849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}