ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution)
Independent bodies resolving player-operator disputes without courts — mandatory referral routes in strong licensing regimes.
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Glossary Category: Compliance & Regulation
Licenses, regulators, advertising rules, AML/KYC and the duties that bind iGaming marketing.
Advertising Standards (CAP Code)
The advertising rulebooks — like the UK's CAP Code — governing gambling marketing content, targeting and tone.
Affiliate Licensing / Registration
Regimes where affiliates themselves must register with or be licensed by the regulator to market gambling.
Age Verification
Confirming players meet the legal gambling age before they can play — increasingly before they can even browse freely.
AML (Anti-Money Laundering)
The legal framework obliging gambling operators to detect, prevent and report money laundering through their platforms.
Black Market
Jurisdictions where online gambling is explicitly prohibited — served, if at all, illegally.
Bonus Advertising Rules
The specific requirements for how gambling bonuses may be promoted: significant terms upfront, no misleading emphasis, market-specific bans.
Complaint Handling
The regulated process for receiving, investigating and resolving player complaints — with timelines, records and escalation duties.
Compliance Audit Trail
The documented, timestamped record proving what was published, decided and enforced — the difference between a defensible program and a fine.
Curacao License (CGA)
The Caribbean licensing regime historically covering much of the offshore industry — reformed in 2024 from master-license sublicensing to direct regulation.
Data Residency
Requirements on where gambling data physically lives — several regulators mandate in-country or in-region storage and access.
Gambling License
State authorization to offer gambling services, defining where an operator may market, which rules bind it, and what protection players get.
Gaming Tax / License Fees
The state's cut of regulated gambling: application and annual license fees plus ongoing tax on stakes, GGR or NGR.
GAMSTOP
Great Britain's national online self-exclusion register — one registration blocks the player at every licensed British operator.
GDPR
The EU's data-protection regulation — governing every player and affiliate data flow in and out of European operations.
Geo-Blocking
Technically preventing access from prohibited jurisdictions — the enforcement layer of an operator's market map.
Gray Market
A jurisdiction where online gambling is neither locally licensed nor explicitly prohibited — served offshore at regulatory risk.
KYC (Know Your Customer)
Mandatory identity verification of players — who they are, their age, and increasingly where their money comes from.
Marketing Preferences / Opt-In
The consent layer for gambling marketing communications — who may be contacted, on which channels, provable on demand.
MGA (Malta Gaming Authority)
Malta's gaming regulator — the EU hub license under which a large share of European-facing online operators run.
Misleading Advertising
Marketing that creates false expectations — about bonuses, odds, risk or terms — measured by consumer impression, not advertiser intent.
PEP Screening
Identifying politically exposed persons among customers and partners, triggering enhanced due diligence on their funds and activity.
Regulated Market
A jurisdiction with a local licensing regime — legal certainty, consumer protection and tax, in exchange for compliance cost.
Responsible Gambling (RG)
The framework of policies, tools and marketing duties aimed at preventing gambling-related harm.
Safer Gambling Tools
The player-facing control set — deposit/loss/session limits, reality checks, time-outs, self-exclusion — that licensed operators must provide.
Sanctions Screening
Checking players and business partners against sanctions and watchlists — strict-liability territory for operators and their payment flows.
Self-Exclusion
A player's formal request to be barred from gambling — per operator or across an entire market via national registers.
Social Responsibility Code
The license conditions binding operators to actively prevent gambling harm — interaction duties, marker monitoring, vulnerable-customer protection.
Source of Funds (SoF)
Enhanced due diligence verifying that a player's gambling spend comes from legitimate income or wealth.
UKGC (UK Gambling Commission)
Great Britain's gambling regulator — the strictest major licensing authority and the de facto benchmark for compliance standards worldwide.