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9 minutes

How Is the Ideal Secure iGaming Payment Implemented From a Legal Perspective?

How can we ensure our iGaming platform has a payment stack that satisfies every compliance layer without compromising the product? 

Aimy Qisteena Legal Counsel at LegalBison

9 minutes

What Is Tokenization? Exploring the Definition, Types, and Common Regulatory Labels

As regulators across the European Union, the United Kingdom, and other jurisdictions finalize frameworks governing digital assets, we’ve watched the classification and operational mechanics of tokens transition from technical considerations to critical compliance obligations. 

9 minutes

How to Start a Sportsbook Business from the Flow of Money, Licensing, to Data Source

Many aspiring operators burn their initial capital on brand design, only to get stuck weeks before launch due to a frozen merchant account, a rejected license application, or an odds feed that lags too far behind to protect their margins.

Hweiching Lim Lead Consulting Manager

News

9 minutes

What Happened with the Recent Polymarket’s Influencer Campaign?

Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that Polymarket had been running a coordinated influencer campaign built on fabricated trades.

9 minutes

The A to Z of How to Start a Gaming Payment Processing Business

We’re going to cover where the legal boundaries are, how to set up your licensing, what your technology needs to handle, and how to manage the customer disputes (chargebacks) that often shut down new businesses before they get off the ground.

Anastasia Marchenko Legal Researcher at LegalBison

9 minutes

Regulated In-Game Currency Compliance: When Does an In-Game Virtual Money Trigger a License?

In the world of digital entertainment, systems like PlayStation Points serve as a clear, compliant example of a closed-loop system, where value is earned and spent strictly within a single platform ecosystem.

Aimy Qisteena Legal Counsel at LegalBison

9 minutes

Meta Wants In on Prediction Markets. Here’s What the Licensing Architecture Would Actually Look Like.

The hard question is not whether Meta can build a prediction markets product. But rather how it licenses one across four or five jurisdictions with conflicting legal frameworks and no settled consensus on whether prediction markets are gambling, financial derivatives, or something else entirely.

9 minutes

We Analyze the “Betting on Events” Trend: Which Business Models Count as One and What Licenses They Require

Prediction-market monthly transaction volume grew from about USD 1.2 billion in early 2025 to over USD 20 billion in January 2026, suggesting that the category is moving beyond niche users into wider retail participation.

Hweiching Lim Lead Consulting Manager

Eira Jarvi Legal Counsel at LegalBison

Aimy Qisteena Legal Counsel at LegalBison

9 minutes

What Is a Social Casino, and How Does This Business Make Money?

Let’s look into the trend of social casino as a platform and how this business model makes money from operators, payment processors, and investors’ perspective.

Anastasia Marchenko Legal Researcher at LegalBison

9 minutes

MiCA Is Not for Everyone: What Binance’s Greek Exit Tells Crypto Founders

Binance pulled its MiCA license application in Greece this week 4 of June. The world's largest crypto exchange, serving tens of millions of European users, could not get authorization from the Hellenic Capital Market Commission before the July 1 deadline.  It now has days to find another EU member state willing to take it on, or start winding down operations across the bloc.

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