When gaming meets gambling: a whole new world of variables

I’ve spent a lot of time working with startups in the eSports industry over the last few years, as it has grown from a peculiar novelty to a major standalone industry attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in investment and ...

Multi-jurisdictional licensing & gaming: don’t get fenced in

I’m not going to look back at the early days of the gaming industry with rose tinted glasses and suggest that licensing was ever easy. Getting a gambling licence in a proper and respectable jurisdiction has always, quite rightly, been ...

Gaming compliance: a good MLRO makes you as snug as a pug in a rug

There was once a time when a gaming entity’s Operations Manager was the top dog when the regulator came to visit. The Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO), by contrast, was only really called upon in times of crisis. In recent ...

The new route to fame and fortune

I met a genuine celebrity last week. In 1998 he was a World Champion in his sport, the star player of a team that made history by being the first team in his emerging sport to gain major corporate sponsorship. Can you guess who it was?...

Does the Isle of Man still stack up as a gaming jurisdiction?

The Isle of Man has done extremely well out of eGaming over the last decade. We recently attended the KPMG eGaming Summit, the Island’s largest annual gaming gathering, and the continued growth of the local sector was apparent to ...