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Self-paced courses for the iGaming industry
Short, structured lessons on licensing, compliance, payments, and operations - built by editors and industry contributors.
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Operators starting in new jurisdictions, compliance teams onboarding new hires, and analysts who need a working vocabulary across the value chain. Each course runs to about two hours in six or seven lessons of fifteen minutes or so, and is structured so you can drop in on a single lesson when you need a specific topic.
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Browse the Guides →- ComplianceAdvanced1h 52m7 lessons
AML and Financial Crime for Gambling
Anti-money-laundering as it is actually operated in a gambling business, rather than as it is described in a policy document. The course covers why the sector is attractive to launderers and the typologies that follow from it, the business risk assessment every control is supposed to derive from, customer due diligence and beneficial ownership, source of funds and source of wealth and why they are harder here than in banking, transaction monitoring and the alert-volume trap, sanctions screening and why it follows strict liability rather than a risk-based logic, and the reporting, records and governance that decide whether the framework holds. Written for the people who run it: financial crime and compliance teams, nominated officers and their deputies, payments and VIP staff who see the first indicator, and executives accountable for the function. It assumes working knowledge of how a gambling operator makes money. No jurisdiction's thresholds, retention periods or reporting deadlines are stated as fact, because they differ by market and change. What the course teaches is the structure of the obligation, how each control is supposed to connect to the one before it, and the short list of failures that published enforcement keeps finding.
- ComplianceIntermediate1h 52m7 lessons
Affiliate Compliance and Licensing Across Markets
The rules that bind gambling affiliates, market by market, and how to build the function that keeps an affiliate paid. The course covers why regulators moved from ignoring affiliates to holding operators responsible for them and then licensing them directly, the United Kingdom's reference regime (the licence conditions, the CAP Code's gambling rules, disclosure, the self-exclusion line, the White Paper changes), the United States' state-by-state licensing on a compensation test and the sweepstakes and prediction-market frontier, Europe from the outright bans through the Netherlands' targeting proof and Sweden's moderation duty to Romania's affiliate licence, the three markets (Brazil, Ontario, Australia) whose recent rules removed the bonus and named the influencer, the mechanics of contracts, approval, monitoring, enforcement and data protection, and how to build and scale an affiliate compliance function with a permission matrix at its centre. Written for affiliates operating in or entering regulated markets, for the operator-side affiliate and compliance managers who police them, and for anyone buying or auditing an affiliate business. The companion courses are Building an iGaming Affiliate Business, Affiliate Marketing and Marketing Compliance and Advertising Standards. The through-line is that affiliate compliance is not a constraint on the business; in a regulated market it is the licence to be in the business at all.
- ComplianceIntermediate1h 36m6 lessons
European Gambling Regulation
How Europe regulates online gambling, country by country and as a system. The course covers the European framework (why the EU harmonises nothing about gambling itself, the Court of Justice case law that produced the licensed-market model, the EU instruments that do bind operators, channelisation as the measure), Great Britain (the 2005 Act, point of consumption, the LCCP rules, the 2023 White Paper and its implementation, duty at 40 per cent), Germany and the Netherlands (the Interstate Treaty, LUGAS and OASIS, the 2026 stake-limit change, KOA and its reversal, the 37.8 per cent tax), the Nordic countries (Denmark's stability, Sweden's tightening and credit ban, Finland's 2027 opening, Norway's defended monopoly), Southern Europe and Belgium (Spain's advertising decree, Italy's concessions and advertising ban, France's casino prohibition, Portugal, Belgium's anchoring and advertising ban), and Central and Eastern Europe, Ireland and the direction of travel. Written for operators and suppliers serving European markets, for compliance and legal teams who need the framework behind the country pages, and for anyone trying to understand why a product that is lawful in Copenhagen is illegal in Paris and limited to one euro a spin in Berlin. The through-line is that Europe's regimes converge on one model and diverge on how hard to turn its dials, and that channelisation is the argument every dial is set by.
- ComplianceBeginner1h 36m6 lessons
Gambling Regulation Basics
What gambling regulation is for, what a licence actually is, and what a licensed operator has to do every day. The course covers the three objectives almost every regulator shares and the models states choose between, the types of licence, what it takes to get one, what it costs and what it obliges, customer verification and anti-money-laundering in plain terms, responsible gambling from the standard tools to the operator's duty to intervene, the advertising and promotion rules and the affiliate problem, and the compliance function: framework, calendar, event reporting, complaints, enforcement and culture. Written for people new to the industry or new to its compliance side, in any role. No legal training is assumed, and no jurisdiction's rulebook is taught; the aim is to be able to read a regulator's announcement, a licence condition or a news story about a fine and understand what is going on. The through-line: every rule is an answer to one question, how to arrange gambling so the harm is limited, the games are honest and the money is clean, and once you see the question the rules stop looking arbitrary.
- ComplianceIntermediate1h 42m6 lessons
Latin America Market Entry: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Mexico
How to enter, or assess entry into, the fastest-growing set of regulated online gambling markets in the world. The course covers the region sorted into regulatory tiers and what makes it different from Europe and North America, Brazil in depth (the secretariat, the authorisation, the tax model, the rules that shape the product, the competitive picture and the entry decision), Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Mexico side by side, licensing and compliance across the region (local entities, certification, AML with national identity infrastructure, responsible gambling, advertising, the tax layer and unlicensed competition), payments and localisation as the product's first impression, and the go-to-market plan: sequencing, an honestly built business case, organisation, the launch sequence and the mistakes already made. Written for operators, suppliers, affiliates, investors and advisers planning or evaluating a Latin American entry. It assumes you know how licensed online gambling works in general. The through-line: identify the regulator, the licence, the tax, the enforcement posture and the payment reality for each market, verify each against the primary source, and never assume it is Europe with a different accent.
- ComplianceAdvanced2h 1m7 lessons
Law & Compliance
An advanced gambling law and compliance course covering the full regulatory picture a licensed operator works within. It maps how overlapping regimes interact and which prevails, treats licensing as a continuing relationship with notification and change control rather than a one-off application, and covers anti-money laundering risk assessment and customer due diligence, responsible gambling duties and why this area has produced the sector's largest penalties, advertising codes and accountability for affiliates and partners, data protection and the tension between data minimisation and gambling record retention, and how to build a compliance function with real independence and assurance that tests controls rather than documents them. Written for compliance officers, in-house lawyers, heads of regulated functions and senior leaders accountable to a regulator.
- ComplianceAdvanced1h 51m7 lessons
Market Entry and Licensing
How an operator decides to enter a jurisdiction, gets licensed, builds for it and survives the first year. The course covers the four states a market can be in and why "grey" and "unregulated" are not the same thing, how to assess a market in the order that matters, why turnover taxation is a structurally different proposition from GGR taxation, what a regulator is actually assessing in a licence application and why applications are refused, the certification and reporting build that decides the timeline, the advertising and affiliate conduct rules that trip new entrants in their first quarter, the first compliance review, and the operating model that makes an eighth market cheaper than a second. Written for the people who run these projects: strategy and corporate development, compliance and legal, finance modelling the case, and the product and engineering leads who discover late that regulator reporting is on the critical path. No jurisdiction's tax rates, fees or timelines are stated as fact, because they change. What the course teaches is the structure of the decision, the arithmetic that decides it, and the failures that recur.
- ComplianceIntermediate1h 48m7 lessons
Responsible Gambling and Player Protection
The operational discipline behind the industry's most scrutinised obligation. This course covers what gambling harm actually is and how it differs from the clinical condition, which product and environmental characteristics increase risk and what the evidence does and does not support, how to detect risk in behavioural data without drowning in false positives, how to conduct a customer interaction that changes behaviour rather than one that documents inaction, how limits and self-exclusion have to be designed to work, how financial risk assessment is done proportionately, and the governance, incentives and measurement that decide whether any of it holds. Written for people who have to run this in practice: safer gambling and compliance teams, CRM and VIP managers, product and payments staff whose decisions change the risk profile, and executives accountable for the function. It assumes you know how the sector works and does not re-explain GGR or licensing. No jurisdiction's current thresholds are asserted, because they change. What the course teaches is the structure of the obligation, the design decisions that determine whether a control works, and how to tell a real programme from one that exists to be shown to a regulator.
- ComplianceIntermediate1h 36m6 lessons
US Online Gambling Regulation
How online gambling is regulated in the United States, from the federal statutes that constrain the market to the state licences that create it. The course covers the federal framework (the Wire Act and its three readings, PASPA and Murphy v NCAA, UIGEA, IGRA, the Commodity Exchange Act), sports betting state by state (the four models, market access and tethering, the tax range from under 10 to 51 per cent, product rules, the holdouts), online casino state by state (the seven live markets and Maine, why iGaming lags, interstate poker), licensing, compliance and tax (suitability, individual and vendor licensing, geolocation, KYC, reserves, advertising codes, Bank Secrecy Act obligations, the tax stack), tribal gaming and compacts (the three classes, exclusivity and revenue sharing, the hub-and-spoke model upheld in Florida), and the frontier (sweepstakes bans, the prediction-market circuit split, fantasy pick'em, skill games, federal proposals). Written for operators, suppliers and affiliates entering or expanding in the American market, for compliance and legal teams who need the framework rather than the headlines, and for anyone in the industry trying to understand why the United States has fifty regimes and a federal fight over the fifty-first. The through-line is that the American market is state-made and federally bounded, and that the products growing fastest are the ones testing the boundaries.