Ismail Vali is the inventor, founder and CEO of Yield Sec, a leading technical intelligence platform for online marketplaces.
Ismail Vali is the inventor, founder and CEO of Yield Sec, a leading technical intelligence platform for online marketplaces.
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Ismail Vali is the inventor, founder and CEO of Yield Sec, and leads a team of experts across the operations of a technical intelligence platform that helps monitor, police, enforce, and optimize the marketplace across online gambling, streaming, crypto and consumer goods.
Yield Sec’s mission focuses on removing black-market threats to revenue, taxation, and consumer protection, benefiting the ecosystem overall.
Ismail’s background in online gambling, product development, marketing, and online operations, with numerous C-level operator positions in the betting and gaming industry, coupled with his academic legal background - including a BA and MA in Law from Brasenose College, Oxford University - led to the invention of a unique solution to restrict and remove the harm caused by what has long been an endemic online industry problem: crime and its impact upon commerce, consumers, and the community.
Sports betting farms. Watch the Search Party episode on illegal gambling and amateur sports, featuring Yield Sec data and views from our CEO.
Yield Sec on Hedgeye TV: Where is All the Gold in America's Online Gambling Gold Rush?
Yield Sec on Hedgeye TV: Know Your Marketplace
Yield Sec on Hedgeye TV: Make The Money You Should
Ismail Vali on what lets illegal operators thrive
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In the News
Illegal Casinos, Sports Books Reap Most Online U.S. Gaming Revenue
How Crypto Boosts America's $67 Billion Shadow Gambling Industry
The Hidden Cost of Illegal Gambling: A Financial Times Investigation
Shady Bets: Blacklisted Gambling Sites Connected to Award-Winning European Firm
1xBet Hosts Thousands of Amateur Sports Streams on Its Website
BBC Fear Losing Paris Olympics Viewers to Illegal Streaming
March Madness Gambling: Betting Wagers on Sportsbooks and Illegal Black Market NCAA
Yield Sec
Yield Sec™, short for yield security, is a technical intelligence platform monitoring all audience activity across gambling, streaming, crypto and consumer goods to see the total online marketplace - both legal and illegal. Yield Sec delivers analysis, actions and recommendations to ensure online stakeholders make the money they should - and are not stolen from by crime.