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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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AI and Machine Learning in iGaming
What artificial intelligence actually does in an online gambling business, how the models are built and governed, and what the law now requires of them. The course covers the distinctions the marketing blurs (statistical machine learning, generative models, relabelled automation) and the value families, customer value and personalisation (churn, lifetime value, propensity, next best action, recommendation, personalised promotions, experimentation, and the constraints from data protection, player protection and marketing rules), fraud, financial crime and integrity (bonus abuse and multi-accounting, payment fraud, account takeover, anti-money-laundering monitoring, sports integrity, sharp detection and stake factoring, and the adversary's own models), player-protection models (the contested target, features and streaming architecture, the interaction ladder and its evaluation, regulators' expectations, the single customer view, and the open questions), trading, content and operations (pricing models, generative customer service in tiers, content and localisation under the advertising codes, game design and testing, back-office uses, identity vendors, and an honest account of what works), and governance and regulation (GDPR automated-decision rules, the EU AI Act's phased obligations including the 2027 high-risk deferral, gambling regulators' expectations, the model-governance programme, and running generative tools responsibly). Written for operators and suppliers deploying models, for compliance, legal and data-protection teams who must govern them, for product and data people entering the industry, and for anyone who wants to separate what AI does in gambling from what conference keynotes say it does. The through-line is that the value is in the operator's own data and models, that the obligations attach to the operator's decisions rather than the supplier's software, and that protection must run ahead of commerce in every system that touches a customer.
- FoundationsIntermediate1h 36m6 lessons
Gambling Products Explained: How Every Vertical Actually Works
The mechanics behind every online gambling product, side by side. The course covers what all products share (a stake, an uncertain outcome, an edge built into the rules, the price or a commission, a variance profile, a skill dimension, a pace and a fairness mechanism), then each vertical in turn: sports betting (the overround, markets, accumulators, in-play, the skill of information), slots and RNG casino games (how a slot's mathematics and volatility are built, the other table games, features regulators restrict), live casino and table games (the round, the formats, multipliers and game shows), poker, bingo, lottery and pools (commission, fixed prize pools, scheduled draws, liquidity and ecology), and the newer formats: crash games, virtual sports, esports, fantasy and pick products, sweepstakes and social casino, prediction markets and lottery betting, each as a recombination that tests a regulatory boundary. Written for people across the industry who work on or around products they did not grow up with: traders moving to casino, compliance analysts who need to know why volatility matters for harm, product managers choosing what to launch, journalists explaining a format. It assumes you know what online gambling is. The through-line: knowing the mechanics is knowing the products, and every new product is an old mechanic in a new wrapper.
- FoundationsIntermediate1h 36m6 lessons
Reading iGaming Financial Results
How to read a gambling company's results and know what they say. The course covers the documents in a results package and the order to read them, the vocabulary (handle, GGR, NGR, hold, actives, adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow, customer balances, net debt) and where definitions differ enough to change a conclusion, an operator's results in five numbers with the checks that turn them into an independent view, a supplier's results as a map of the industry's growth, the balance sheet, cash flow and notes where trouble shows before the headline (customer balances, leverage and covenants, goodwill and impairments, provisions, cash conversion, related parties, regulatory disclosures), and comparing companies on a rebuilt common basis and reading the sector across a results season. Written for analysts, journalists, competitors, suppliers deciding which customers to prioritise, and anyone in the industry who wants to know how the business is actually going. It assumes basic familiarity with company accounts. The through-line: the tables before the narrative, the definitions before the comparison, and the cash before the adjusted profit.
- FoundationsIntermediate1h 36m6 lessons
The iGaming Value Chain: Who Does What and Who Pays Whom
The map of the online gambling industry: the seven layers from players to the state, who pays whom and in what form, where the margin sits and why, operators and the platform pieces they build or buy, each supplier type's business model (studios, live casino, sportsbook suppliers, platforms and aggregators, data and integrity, payments and KYC, affiliates, testing houses), a hundred units of revenue followed through the chain and why suppliers are valued more highly than operators, how the chain differs across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Africa and across sports, casino, poker, lottery and prediction markets, and the standard moves companies make across layers and why most disappoint. Written for anyone who knows one layer of the industry and needs to understand the rest: product and commercial people negotiating with suppliers or operators, analysts and journalists reading results and deals, and people joining the industry who want to know where its power lies. It assumes you know what online gambling is. The through-line: value is created in the player experience, the risk management and the content; it is captured where rights, distribution and scale sit, and above everyone by the state.