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- 75
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- 218
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UK-claiming providers in our catalog that hold a genuine FCA e-money institution authorization
Eight more are payment institutions with permission sets from full acquiring down to initiation-only, Adyen runs as a bank branch, and one brand's UK authorization was cancelled in 2024 while still being claimed. Register-first due diligence, entity by entity.
Basis: FCA register audit (our verification, register data of Jul 13, 2026)
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Brazil-facing providers in our catalog holding an own or captive BCB payment-institution authorization
Verified against the central bank's register, the official Pix participant file and DOU records. One more runs honestly on a partner bank; acquiring modality sits with only two of the eleven; several joined Pix over a year before their authorization landed via the Res. BCB 80/2021 window.
Basis: BCB register audit (our verification, register data of Jul 14, 2026)
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US-facing providers in our catalog whose state gaming registrations we confirmed in the six publicly checkable state registers
Checked against PA, NJ, MI, WV, CO and IN registers. One brand publicly names four licensed states and appears in none of the three checkable ones; three more are absent as their models predict. The money-transmitter layer of every claim stays company-attributed: NMLS publishes no public register.
Basis: US state register audit (our verification, register data of Jul 14-15, 2026)
7801 / 7802 / 7995
US gambling MCCs where a Visa fraud dispute stays valid regardless of 3DS authentication (Rules Table 11-27, US domestic)
The liability shift most merchants assume from 3DS does not exist for US-domestic gambling traffic, which makes Compelling Evidence 3.0 the only 10.4 liability lever for the vertical. Full mechanics in our CE 3.0 breakdown.
Basis: Visa Core Rules, 18 April 2026 edition (our CE 3.0 verification)
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Providers in our catalog that connect Pix for Brazilian iGaming
18 of them run Pix through their own direct acquiring or a Brazilian payment-institution license rather than aggregation. No other rail in the catalog comes close to this provider density, which is what a 96%-of-volume method does to a market's supply side.
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Providers whose rails carry zero operator chargeback liability
Crypto-native gateways, open-banking A2A rails and Interac push-payment specialists: on these rails the dispute mechanic that VAMP and ECP price simply doesn't exist. Every deposit moved off cards leaves both the numerator and the denominator of the card programs' ratios.
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Providers stating a reserve policy that hold zero rolling reserve
Almost all of them open-banking and crypto rails, where the dispute mechanics that reserves exist for don't apply. Among providers that do hold reserves, the midpoint of stated ranges lands at a 7.5% median, held 3-6 months.
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Providers that quote deposit pricing only through sales
Against 35 that publish a numeric rate or range. Half the industry still treats price as a negotiation opener rather than a datapoint, which is exactly why published pricing is a transparency signal in our scoring.
The register-audit series
License claims checked against regulators' own files, entity by entity, with snapshot dates and corrections published in both directions. Nobody else runs this series; cite it with the audit date.
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igamingpaymentsolutions.com is an independent research site covering how money moves in the iGaming industry. The catalog reviews 75 payment providers, scored across six dimensions under a published methodology that providers cannot pay to enter or influence. License claims are verified against primary registers (ESMA, the UK FCA, Brazil's central bank, US state gaming commissions), with corrections published in both directions in a public log. The industry report tracks 218 verified facts drawn from 85+ distinct sources, and 29 research articles cover card-network programs, market launches and settlement mechanics. The site carries no affiliate links and no sponsored rankings.
Expert comment for working press
We take questions from journalists and analysts on the topics we actually research: card-network programs as they hit gambling merchants (VAMP, Mastercard EFM and ECP, Compelling Evidence 3.0), payment-provider licensing across the EU, UK, Brazil and US state registers, market launches and their payment mechanics, and payment-method economics by market. Independence terms are simple: comments draw on published, verifiable research; we do not comment on providers' behalf, and being quoted does not move anyone's score.
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The data behind the quotes
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