The judging panel, featuring key industry stakeholders, was uniquely impressed by FSB’s sportsbook platform and trading tools which are tailor-made for the demands of live sports betting and have been readily pressed into service with operators worldwide.

The award follows a particularly productive year for FSB, which has seen it expand its global footprint across four continents with the industry’s most flexible, scalable and efficient sports betting platform.

Sportsbooks that run off FSB’s proprietary platform and unique pricing models enable customers to enjoy the most sophisticated and reactive in-play odds, with competitive pricing on all sports. Services are provided either as a white-label service (where FSB manages the entire sportsbook) or as an enterprise software licence (where clients control the trading and risk management functions).

FSB covers the entire sports betting value chain, including but not limited to managing live data feeds from multiple suppliers, trading and risk management and marketing support.

Richard Thorp, FSB’s Business Development Director, said: “We’re thrilled. It’s a great endorsement of our sportsbook solution and all the hard work behind the scenes from our wonderfully capable and committed team. Receiving this industry recognition at one of the cornerstone awards shows on the calendar is the icing on the cake on a fantastic year.

“We’re in a new sports betting era where the ‘one size fits all’ approach has run out of road. Sportsbook Supplier is always one of the most exacting categories since it demands the highest levels of technical expertise to produce a comprehensive but light-to-deploy platform. FSB now takes away the pain of purchasing and installing cumbersome legacy platforms with a breakthrough offering that enables swift and fully-compliant deployment into multiple jurisdictions.

“FSB are looking forward to 2019. Africa has represented a very large growth area for us over the past two years, Asia is now following suit, while the U.S. is clearly becoming very interesting as it opens up state-by-state. We’ve recently launched a sports betting area into a large casino in Manila in the Philippines, and I think there’s a lot more opportunity in that same territory. It’s very exciting.”