PlayCity launches DSOM, Ukraine’s new State Online Monitoring System for gambling
The regulator says 11 Ukrainian gambling operators have already connected to the system.
Ukraine.- PlayCity, the Ukrainian gambling regulator, has announced that the new State Online Monitoring System, known as DSOM, is now live on a test basis. It says the first 11 gambling operators have already been connected and others are in the process of connecting.
A dedicated section about DSOM has been added to the PlayCity website to provide basic information about the system’s operation, the connection procedure and the regulatory framework. It also explains how to use the operator portal, for which a company manager or an authorised person must log in using a qualified electronic signature.
The DSOM is intended to allow monitoring of the whole Ukrainian gambling sector, giving PlayCity visibility of all gambling transactions made on the regulated market. It contains two main parts: internal, accessible to state authorities, and external, accessible to gambling operators. Access to the system for all parties is carried out exclusively through using a unique identifier.
Gambling businesses can connect to DSOM now and using the test data can configure transaction transmission and eliminate technical inaccuracies in their systems. This gives them more time to prepare for the mandatory integration, PlayCity said.
The connection of operators is taking place in stages to test the system in real operating conditions, test the transfer of transaction data, and correctly integrate operators’ own digital systems into the single monitoring system. The plan is to continue to test and gradually scale the system to the entire licensed gambling market in Ukraine.
After paying for a licence, data about a new gambling operator will be entered into the register within one business day, after which the company receives access to its own account. From the moment the operator’s system is integrated into the DSOM, information exchange occurs automatically in encrypted form via the API.
What PlayCity’s DSOM does
Last month, the work of DSOM was presented to state and law enforcement agencies at the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Digital Transformation. They showed what the system looks like from the inside and how it is intended to help the state see real data from the gambling industry, including financial transactions, bets, payouts and other operational indicators of operators’ activity.
The DSOM is billed as a move towards data-driven regulation with the aim of providing the state with a complete and reliable picture of the gambling market in a format close to real-time. The system records key operations like bets, returns and payouts of winnings. Each operation is transmitted as a separate transaction with a unique identifier, and the transmitted data cannot be changed or overwritten, PlayCity said.
The State Tax Service of Ukraine also provides access to primary transaction data for calculating GGR for taxation of the gambling business, as well as taxes on player winnings, the military levy and personal income tax.
The system records each user’s transactions within operators’ gaming systems but does not collect players’ personal data or track the movement of their funds outside of their gaming. All data is transmitted to the State Tax Service in an anonymised format. This allows the state to analyse real market operating indicators and monitor the correctness of tax calculations, PlayCity said.
