Licensing
Licensing
Curacao Gaming Licence: What Operators Should Expect
A former regulator's view of the Curacao GCB application: the key-person filings, fit-and-proper packs and documents where operators lose months.
6 min read
Field notes
Writing for operators getting paid, banked, and approved.
No filler. Just what underwriters, counsel, banks, and processors actually look for when they evaluate a sweepstakes, casino, or crypto-casino operator.
Regulatory IntelligenceAll articles
- Compliance
Compliance
KYC and AML Controls for Sweepstakes Operators
Banks, processors and vendors apply real-money KYC and AML expectations to sweepstakes operators. Here are the controls they look for and who owns them.
7 min read
- Compliance
Compliance
Sweepstakes Ad Compliance: What Actually Gets Flagged
How sweepstakes casino creative review really works: free-entry disclosure, prize and odds terms, ad platform policy, and affiliate copy control.
7 min read
- Sweepstakes
Sweepstakes
Sweepstakes or Real Money: Choosing a Launch Model
An honest comparison of sweepstakes, licensed real-money and crypto-first casino launches - licensing, capital, banking, payments and time to market.
7 min read
- Market Entry
Market Entry
US Market Entry for Foreign iGaming Operators
The order foreign operators have to run US entry in: entity and structure, a US director, the legal opinion, then banking and processor introductions.
7 min read
- Legal Opinion
Compliance
Sweepstakes casino legal opinion: law firm or launch advisor?
How to choose between a gaming law firm and a launch advisor for your sweepstakes legal opinion — and the package banks, processors, and vendors actually expect.
6 min read
- AMOE / AOME
Sweepstakes
AMOE / AOME, explained for sweepstakes operators
Why the free-entry path is the structural keystone of a sweepstakes casino — and the small design choices that make banks, processors, and counsel comfortable.
3 min read
- Payments & Banking
Payments
What payment processors review before approving a sweepstakes operator
Payment approval is a packaging problem. The five threads underwriters trace — legal opinion, state treatment, AMOE, KYC and geolocation, and live-product alignment — and where most files fall apart.
4 min read
- 50-State Review
Compliance
Inside a real 50-state sweepstakes legal opinion
What a defensible 50-state sweepstakes legal opinion actually covers — federal frame, restricted states, AMOE, dual-currency, and operational controls — and how to spot a thin memo before you pay for it.
4 min read