How This Reference Is Compiled

What is recorded

Entries concentrate on structural facts, which change slowly and can be stated without qualification: the legal basis of a regime, the type of licence a jurisdiction issues, the body that issues it, the model by which an operator obtains one, and the base on which gambling tax is levied.

Those facts are the ones that actually determine how a market behaves. Whether a country taxes stakes or revenue tells you more about the product customers will be offered than the rate does, and it remains true for years at a time.

What is deliberately left out

• Precise tax rates. They move with each finance act. The profiles record the base and describe the direction of change instead. The reasoning is set out in the explainer on taxation.
• Market size figures. Published estimates vary by multiples depending on methodology, and repeating one without its method would give it a precision it does not have.
• Company financials. Revenue and profit are reported quarterly by listed companies and not at all by private ones. A static page is the wrong place for them.
• Rankings and recommendations. Nothing here is ranked, rated or recommended. The directory describes what companies do.
• Links to gambling sites. No operator is linked and no affiliate relationship exists.

How currency is handled

Every page shows the date the data behind it was last reviewed, taken from the underlying file rather than typed by hand, so it cannot drift away from the content it describes.

Where a regime is in transition, the entry says so and gives the expected timing rather than asserting a position that has not yet taken effect. Markets introducing licensing, and markets whose rules are being contested in court, are described as what they are: unsettled.

Sources

The authoritative source for any licensing question is the regulator itself: its public register, its legislation and its published decisions. Entries here are written against those materials and against the public record of how regimes have developed, and they are intended as an orientation rather than a substitute.

No external links are published, for two reasons. Regulator URLs change often enough that a page of links decays quickly, and a reference that depends on outbound links stops being usable the moment they break. Authorities are named precisely enough to be found.

Corrections

Entries will contain errors, and the useful response is to fix them rather than to disclaim them. If something here is wrong or out of date, say which page, which statement and what the correct position is, through the contact page. Corrections are made to the underlying data, which updates the review date on every page that draws on it.