Desk: Betting & Data
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New data partnerships put pressure on supplier margins
Exclusive feed deals are consolidating in fewer hands. The operators buying odds are starting to ask what they are actually paying for.
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The invisible battle for match data
The rights behind every odds update have become a strategic asset.
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Inside the supplier stack behind a single odds update
Four companies touch a price before it reaches a player. Each takes a margin.
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Who actually owns the official data designation
A look at the contracts behind the phrase operators advertise.
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Integrity monitoring is becoming a product
The vendors selling surveillance to leagues and books alike.
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Why in-play margins are thinner than they look
Latency, hedging and the cost of being first to a price.
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The quiet return of skin betting
Grey markets never closed. They moved.