How we verify the data

iGaming Operators does not invent facts — it aggregates and resolves public and licensed data into one structured, verifiable record per company. Three layers feed every profile:

1. Official regulator registries (the ground truth). Licence status, licence type and, where the register publishes them, issue and expiry dates are taken from the gambling regulators themselves — including UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), Malta Gaming Authority (MGA), Curaçao Gaming Control Board (CGB), Swedish Gambling Authority (Spelinspektionen), Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden), Italian ADM and more, across 34 regulated markets. Where a regulator publishes a register, we read it at source, on the schedule shown in the table below; the change history records a licence as lapsed only when a full read of its register no longer contains it.

2. Corporate & public filings. Company names, trading names, parent brands and corporate relationships are cross-checked against public company filings and the operators' own disclosures, then reconciled against the registry data.

3. Commercial signals. Market entry, partnerships, awards and expansion moves are detected from public news and industry sources and dated, so a "deal signal" carries a verifiable origin and a timestamp.

The hard part of iGaming data is that the same company appears differently across ~80 source pipelines — a licence name, a trading name, a parent-brand name. We resolve these into a single entity using an alias graph and confidence-scored corporate links, so one company is one record and its corporate network is explicit rather than guessed. Duplicates are collapsed by normalized name and domain; genuinely distinct companies with similar names stay separate.

Each register is read on its own schedule — most once a month. A read that comes back far smaller than the previous full read, or that no longer contains most of the licences we hold from that register, is flagged for review, is not counted as a full read and records no licence as lapsed in the change history. Where a register has not been read in full within the last 35 days, the table below says when it was last read in full. Aggregate figures on this site (licence counts, jurisdiction totals) are computed live from that data and are consistent across every page — the same number appears on the homepage, the jurisdiction pages and here.

What we do not do: we do not publish player-level data, and we do not operate any gambling service. iGaming Operators is a B2B market-intelligence and data provider — not a gambling operator, casino or sportsbook. It does not accept bets or process player funds.

A full read means the whole register was fetched and processed in one run, and the result was not a collapse against the previous full read. A read that is not full (one page, a slice, a saved copy) updates what it saw, is not counted as a full read, and records no licence as lapsed in the change history.