Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Employees’ empowerment
• Diversity and equal opportunity
• Responsible gaming
• Regulatory compliance
• Ethical business practices
• Community engagement
• Energy efficiency
• Green office initiatives

Environmental Achievements

• Continued using environmentally friendly practices and materials, energy-efficient lighting, recycling programs, paper-free approach to operations and encouraging employees to use public transport or carpool to work, thus positively contributing to saving of forests and water. Hybrid work model adopted also promotes reducing traffic and carbon emissions. Air travel increased in 2022 but remained less than 50% comparing to pre-pandemic levels, while Angler Gaming continues to apply ‘business travel as exception, not the rule’ approach, keeping its carbon footprint low. Implementing energy-efficient technologies, such as server virtualization and cloud computing, to further minimize our carbon footprint.

Social Achievements

• Angler Group values its employees and promotes a healthy work-life balance. It offers competitive remuneration packages, flexible working hours, and ongoing training and development opportunities. Maintains a zero-tolerance policy for discrimination, harassment, and bullying in the workplace. 100% of the Group workforce benefited from the hybrid working environment in 2022. Number of women amongst the employees of the Group grew by 3.5% comparing to 2021, which growth occurred primarily in management positions, which accounted for 63% of this growth. In 2022, a number of additional preventive restrictions have been implemented which has led to an increase of 10.2% in early detection of potential gambling problems and, thus, their pre-emption. 100% of customer support agents underwent specialised responsible gambling training.

Governance Achievements

• Further strengthened its anti-laundering and combatting of funding of terrorism (AML/CFT) function by engaging additional competent personnel, training of employees on specific gaming-related risk areas, deploying best in class tools, improving and further automating such important areas as customer due diligence, customer risk assessment, suspicious transaction reporting and the overall business risk assessment against the money-laundering risks and implementation of appropriate mitigating measures have been carried out by the Group. In 2022, 100% of our compliance team and customer support agents underwent specialised AML training.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Challenging year that negatively affected key performance indicators (KPIs): Revenue decrease (-27.1%), EBIT decrease (-127.8%), Earnings per Share decrease (-146.0%), EBIT Margin decrease (-138.06%), Net Profit decrease (-146.0%), Customer Deposits decrease (-30.0%), Active Customers decrease (-1.9%), New Depositing Customers decrease (-35.8%). Poor results in Q1 2022. PremierGaming Ltd continues to be discriminated against in Sweden by being denied access to SWISH, despite being a licensed operator in Sweden duly paying Swedish gaming taxes.
• Complex and frequently changing laws and regulations surrounding the online gambling industry.
• Concentration risk and performance risk of the iGaming sector.
• Compliance and regulatory risk.
• Credit risk.
• Impairment risk of intangible assets.
• Technological and systems development.
• Dependence on key individuals and/or suppliers.

Mitigation Strategies

• Re-positioning of the Group’s proprietary I-Gaming platform.
• Increased focus on B-to-B offerings (three new projects signed, one launched).
• Tightened cost controls (closing unprofitable partnerships, renegotiating others).
• Investment in a strengthened management team.
• Investing in new business verticals (Sportsbook and Joint Venture in South America).
• Implementing more stringent policies on supplier due diligence and proactive and agile supplier cost and doubtful debts controls.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Well-being of employees
• Well-being of customers
• Well-being of the environment
• Well-being of community, society

Environmental Achievements

• Continued using environmentally friendly practices and materials, energy-efficient lighting, recycling programs, paper-free approach to operations and encouraging employees to use public transport or carpool to work
• Hybrid work model adopted by Angler Group also promotes reducing traffic and carbon emissions
• Air travel remained less than 50% comparing to pre-pandemic levels

Social Achievements

• Angler Group values its employees and promotes a healthy work-life balance. It offers competitive remuneration packages, flexible working hours, and ongoing training and development opportunities.
• Maintained a zero-tolerance policy for discrimination, harassment, and bullying in the workplace.
• 100% of the Group workforce benefited from the hybrid working environment in 2023
• Number of women amongst the employees of the Group grew by 65% comparing to 2022.
• Engagement of women in managerial and other senior positions more than doubled in 2023
• Number of customers with gambling problems remained low, under 2.3%
• Increase of 104% in early detection of potential gambling problems and their pre-emption
• 100% of customer support agents underwent specialised responsible gambling training
• Supported a youth engagement and skills building project in Malta

Governance Achievements

• Further strengthened its anti-laundering and combatting of funding of terrorism (AML/CFT) function by engaging additional competent personnel, training of employees on specific gaming-related risk areas, deploying best in class tools
• Improved and further automated areas such as customer due diligence, customer risk assessment, suspicious transaction reporting and the overall business risk assessment against the money-laundering risks and implementation of appropriate mitigating measures
• 100% of our compliance team underwent specialised AML training

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Maintaining responsible gaming practices in a competitive industry
• Compliance with evolving regulations in multiple jurisdictions
• Balancing business growth with environmental sustainability

Mitigation Strategies

• Investing in responsible gaming tools and training
• Strengthening compliance team and processes
• Implementing energy-efficient technologies and promoting sustainable practices

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Environmental Metrics

Climate Goals & Targets

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities