Online Gambling Regulations
Lexicon

Regulatory Glossary

The vocabulary gambling regulation runs on — defined in one or two sentences, cross-linked where terms depend on each other.

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
The compliance programme — monitoring, reporting, risk assessment — that prevents gambling being used to launder money. See also: Know Your Customer, Source of Funds
B2B / B2C Licences
B2C licences authorize serving players; B2B licences authorize supplying games/platforms to other operators. See also: White Label
Black Market
Play that is expressly illegal in the player's jurisdiction — prohibited supply, often enforced via blocking and payment controls. See also: Grey Market
Gambling Tax
The jurisdiction-specific levy on gambling activity — charged on GGR, stakes or turnover depending on the regime. See also: Gross Gaming Revenue, Gross Gambling Yield
Grey Market
A jurisdiction where online gambling is neither licensed locally nor effectively prohibited — operators serve it offshore at their own legal risk. See also: Black Market
Gross Gambling Yield (GGY)
The UK's term for the operator's retained amount (stakes minus winnings); UKGC fees and Remote Gaming Duty scale with it. See also: Gross Gaming Revenue, Gambling Tax
Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR)
Total stakes minus winnings paid out — the standard base for gambling taxes and fees. See also: Net Gaming Revenue, Gambling Tax
Know Your Customer (KYC)
Identity-verification duties an operator must complete before or shortly after allowing play or payout. See also: Anti-Money Laundering, Source of Funds
Net Gaming Revenue (NGR)
GGR minus bonuses, loyalty costs and certain fees — a narrower tax/reporting base used in some regimes. See also: Gross Gaming Revenue
Player-Funds Segregation
Keeping customer balances separate from operating money; protection levels vary by licence and must often be disclosed. See also: Responsible Gambling
Point of Consumption
Licensing principle taxing/regulating gambling where the CUSTOMER is located, not where the operator sits. See also: Point of Supply
Point of Supply
The older principle regulating gambling where the OPERATOR is established — superseded by point of consumption in most major markets. See also: Point of Consumption
Responsible Gambling (RG)
The umbrella of player-protection duties: limits, reality checks, interaction triggers, advertising restrictions. See also: Self-Exclusion
Return to Player (RTP)
The long-run percentage of stakes a game pays back; some regulators set minimum or disclosure requirements.
Self-Exclusion
A scheme letting players bar themselves from all licensed operators at once (GAMSTOP, OASIS, Cruks, Spelpaus, BetStop...). See also: Responsible Gambling
Source of Funds (SoF)
Evidence of where a customer's money comes from; requested at risk thresholds under AML rules. See also: Anti-Money Laundering, Know Your Customer
White Label
An arrangement where a brand operates under a platform-provider's licence instead of holding its own. See also: B2B / B2C Licences
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Using the Lexicon

Which terms have their own pages?
Terms that carry enough regulatory substance to earn one — the revenue measures (GGR, NGR, GGY), the compliance layer (KYC, AML, source of funds), the market-structure vocabulary (grey and black markets, point of consumption and supply, white labels, B2B/B2C) and the player-protection machinery. One-line entries stay on this page.
Why does so much of the vocabulary involve money?
Because regulation is implemented through money: the tax base defines the operator’s burden, the revenue measure defines the licence fee, and the deduction rules define who keeps what. Most regulatory arguments are, at bottom, arguments about which number applies.
Are these definitions jurisdiction-specific?
The concepts travel; the details do not. GGR means the same thing everywhere, but what may be deducted from it, which register a licensee must check, and when KYC must complete are all answers that change at every border — the country profiles carry the local specifics.
A term I expected is missing — why?
The lexicon grows with the atlas: terms are added when the country profiles, licence pages or tracker entries need them, so coverage follows the regulatory content rather than aiming at dictionary completeness. The methodology page describes how the site decides what earns a page.