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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.
- ProductAdvanced1h 46m7 lessons
Casino Game Mathematics
The mathematics behind the products, for people who have to make decisions about them. The course covers the four numbers that actually describe a game and why return to player is the least useful of them, how a slot maths model is built from reel strips and a paytable and how a target RTP is hit, volatility and the square-root arithmetic that decides how long convergence takes, how features and bonus buys are priced and what a maximum win cap does to the expectation, jackpot funding and the honest version of the positive-expected-value argument, derivable table game edges and the sportsbook margin analogue, and how a model is certified and read commercially. Written for product and commercial staff who choose catalogues, compliance staff who have to assess disclosure, and anyone who has quoted an RTP figure in a meeting. It assumes ordinary numeracy and no formal statistics. Every worked figure is arithmetic on stated assumptions. The derivable edges are stated because they follow from published rules; slot-specific numbers are illustrative, because real ones are proprietary per title.
- ProductAdvanced2h7 lessons
Game Studio Management & Development
An advanced course on running a casino game studio as a business. It covers the studio revenue model and what it means for building a portfolio, where development cost concentrates, and slot game mathematics: paytables, reel strips, return to player, and why volatility, hit frequency and maximum win cannot all be set independently. It then covers the production pipeline and certification, art and audio designed for the thumbnail and the first thirty seconds, distribution through direct integration or aggregation and the commercial terms worth negotiating, reading performance data without mistaking lobby placement for game quality, and the responsible design decisions that sit with the studio rather than the operator. Written for studio heads, producers, game designers and mathematicians, and commercial staff at suppliers.
- 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.
- EcosystemAdvanced1h 48m6 lessons
Player Data Science: Value, Harm, Fraud and Experimentation
The models an online gambling operator runs on its customers, and how to build them so they can be defended. The course covers the data an operator holds and the feature layer built on it, lifetime value and churn models and the uplift experiments that make interventions pay, responsible gambling risk models from markers of harm through the label problem to the decision layer regulators inspect, fraud and integrity models against an adversary (bonus abuse, multi-accounting, payment fraud, laundering, suspicious betting) and the rules, supervised, anomaly and graph methods that stack against them, experimentation under extreme variance and regulatory constraint, and model governance: inventory, documentation, validation, explainability, fairness, automated-decision rights and monitoring. Written for data scientists, analysts and engineers working in or joining a gambling operator, and for the compliance and product people who own the decisions those models drive. It assumes working knowledge of statistics and machine learning. The through-line: these models make regulated decisions about real people, so the harm model constrains the commercial models and not the reverse, and every decision must be explainable to the person it affects.
- TradingAdvanced1h 48m6 lessons
Quantitative Betting Models and Pricing
How a sportsbook price is actually made, and how a quantitative desk knows whether it is right. The course covers odds as probabilities and why removing the margin is a modelling choice, rating models and scoring-process models and the corrections that make them usable, the market as a model and closing line value, calibration and proper scoring rules, in-play pricing with hazard rates and the latency and suspension problem, correlation and the simulation engines behind bet builders, and the risk layer that turns prices into money: limits as a function of edge, event-level liability, customer pricing, model monitoring and backtesting discipline. Written for traders, quants and product people who already know how a sportsbook works and want to build or run the pricing engine. It assumes comfort with probability and a willingness to read a formula. The through-line: pricing is a system. Probability from models and the market, checked by calibration, kept coherent across markets and in-play, and turned into margin by limits and customer management that reflect where the edge actually is.
- TradingAdvanced1h 48m7 lessons
Sports Integrity and Betting Fraud
Match fixing, spot fixing and suspicious betting, from the operator's side of the market. The course covers what corruption in sport actually looks like and why spot fixing dominates, what a suspicious betting pattern is and the innocent explanations that account for most of them, how monitoring and alert handling work across operators, monitoring companies and sports, the operator's real levers of market design, suspension, voiding and account action, the sporting and criminal frameworks and why cases fall between them, prevention through education, market design and information sharing, and building a function that sports and regulators trust. Written for trading and risk teams, compliance staff who own the reporting obligation, and anyone who has to decide whether to suspend a market or void a bet. It assumes you know how a sportsbook prices and settles. The through-line is a discipline with real consequences: a betting pattern is a hypothesis about a market, not a finding about a person. The course teaches how to describe what was seen, decide what can be defended, report what should be reported, and claim nothing more.
- LeadershipAdvanced2h7 lessons
iGaming Leadership & Organisational Culture
An advanced course on leadership and organisational culture in iGaming, where regulatory accountability changes what leading a business involves. It covers which decisions can be delegated and which cannot, building teams where specialist skills are genuinely scarce, finding and removing conflicts in incentive design, why culture is set by decisions rather than statements, what breaks at each stage of growth and how much change an organisation can absorb, managing the regulator as a leadership responsibility rather than a compliance task, deciding under uncertainty and matching the effort to how reversible a decision is, and assessing an organisation honestly from behaviour rather than documentation. Written for senior managers, directors and founders, and for managers stepping into their first senior leadership role.
- LeadershipAdvanced1h 48m6 lessons
iGaming M&A and Corporate Finance
How gambling companies are bought, valued and combined. The course covers why deals happen and the archetypes that set price and structure, valuation on the right revenue with the three adjustments gambling requires (regulatory revenue quality, tax and regulatory change, cohort durability), the due diligence workstreams that exist only in this sector (licences and change of control, player funds, gaming tax, AML and responsible gambling practice, platform and content rights), deal structure as risk allocation (shares or assets, locked box, earnouts, escrows, warranty insurance, conditions precedent, material adverse change), the long regulatory middle between signing and closing, and integration: the first hundred days, platform migration, brand and people, and reporting whether the value arrived. Written for operators and suppliers considering a deal, corporate development and finance teams, advisers new to the sector, and journalists and analysts who want to read a deal announcement properly. It assumes familiarity with company accounts and the basic vocabulary of M&A. The through-line: a gambling deal is a bet on customers, made under a regulator's supervision, paid for on a synergy case that only integration can deliver.