Will Booth
Senior Product Manager
Automated regulatory reporting bridge for Brazil's 2025 betting compliance deadline.
Overview
An automated 24/7 regulatory reporting bridge built to achieve 100% daily submission acceptance for Brazil's 2025 betting compliance deadline.
Impact
0
Compliance failures
Since go-live in December 2024
4 Months
Concept to live
Against a non-negotiable government deadline
Role
Product Manager
Year
Q3 2024 → Q4 2024
Scope
Before 2025, Brazil's betting market operated in a legal grey area. Without centralised oversight, billions in tax revenue were lost to offshore operators, problem gamblers could move freely between platforms, and the industry had no standardised framework for detecting financial crime.
Brazil's 2025 regulatory deadline created a forcing function. Operators who could not demonstrate full compliance with the SPA risked losing their licence entirely. The opportunity was to build a robust, automated reporting pipeline that made compliance seamless rather than a recurring operational burden.
The solution
The core question: how do you guarantee first-attempt acceptance by the SIGAP validator, at scale, every single day, without manual intervention?
#1
A reconciliation layer audits every player balance, bet, and payout before any file leaves the operator's server. Nothing transmits until the data is clean.
#2
Secure JSON/XML transmission feeds directly into SIGAP's Data Transmission Engine, with a real-time feedback loop that monitors acceptance status and triggers instant alerts on any rejection.
#3
Stress tested under simulated daily record volumes to ensure the transmission engine could handle the full scale of the market without throttling ahead of the live deadline.
#4
Every transaction is tracked against the PIX financial audit trail required by regulators, ensuring complete traceability from wager to payout across all operator accounts.
The outcome
The pipeline went live in December 2024 ahead of the regulatory deadline. Daily SIGAP submissions have been consistently accepted, maintaining the operator's .bet.br licensed status in Brazil's newly regulated market.
Full PIX audit coverage was achieved across all transactions, contributing to Brazil's R$9 billion tax revenue pool and replacing grey area reporting with a fully automated, reconciled compliance service that ensures long-term business continuity in the market.
I've learned that
Compliance as product
Treating the regulatory deadline as a product launch — with a spec, a build, and a go-live — was the right mental model. Compliance work fails when it is treated as an afterthought.
Reconciliation before transmission
The pre-submission audit layer was the most important architectural decision. First-attempt acceptance depends entirely on the quality of data going in, not on error recovery after the fact.
Cross-discipline ownership
Owning delivery across data engineers and compliance specialists required being fluent in both domains. A PM who can read a schema and understand a legal obligation closes the gap faster than one who cannot.