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Markets and regulation

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Country by country: who licenses play there, and what that licence is worth.

Online gambling is regulated country by country, and the licence on an operator's footer is a statement about one jurisdiction rather than a quality mark. What it covers — whose money is protected, which disputes can be escalated, what happens to a balance if the operator stops trading — changes entirely from one regulator to the next.

This section follows that line. Each piece takes a single market: who licenses play there, what the licence obliges the operator to do, which payment methods the local rules permit, and what a player in that market can do when something goes wrong. Several of the pieces are written in the language of the market they describe, because that is the language the rules and the terms are published in.

Markets and regulation — the words, plainly

Licence
A permission to offer play, issued by a named body, with a scope that is narrower than most players assume.
Offshore
An operator licensed somewhere other than where the player sits. Legal to use in some markets, not in others.
Channelling
How much of a market's play happens with locally licensed operators. The number a regulator watches most closely.
Self-exclusion
A register that bars a player from licensed operators. It only reaches operators inside the register.
Monopoly market
A market where play is lawful only through a state-held operator.

Markets this desk has covered

7 markets, each row opening the piece written about it.