GamblingIQ's Lucky 7 global rankings highlight the growing commercial appeal of branded live dealer & game shows, with CreedRoomz, Evolution, Playtech and Pragmatic Play leading a new wave of entertainment-led innovation.

Award-winning payments provider MiFinity launches PayAnyCoin, bringing enterprise level, multiple stablecoin payouts to the iGaming industry and other businesses operating across international markets.

As game libraries continue to expand, GamblingIQ's Lucky 7: Operators' Choice, Top Revenue Driving iGaming Slots rankings, show how operators are placing their confidence in proven franchises rather than the latest releases.

Saba Ugrelidze joined Octoplay to help accelerate the supplier's expansion across North America. Since then, the studio has rapidly strengthened its position in regulated markets, securing major operator launches while its games have emerged as leading performers in independent U.S. rankings. Along the way, Ugrelidze has become the recognisable face of Octoplay's Elvis campaign - a role the company has embraced with characteristic humour through social media, vinyl record spo

GamblingIQ has ranked Eruption Blaze Cashingo™ as the No. 1 title in its Lucky 7: Next Generation Slots in Beautiful Minds 2026, recognising the latest release from Slingshot Studios for demonstrating how successful proprietary gameplay can be developed through disciplined product evolution.

From Whitney Houston and Elvis Presley to Monopoly, Breaking Bad and The Goonies, GamblingIQ's annual rankings highlight the licensed casino games that best combine world-famous IP with commercially proven gameplay.

Golden Moose™ leads Fennica Gaming's expansion into global regulated markets

By bringing aggregation, reporting, compliance, bonusing, promotions and more than 150,000 game assets together in one platform, ST8 is helping operators launch faster, scale efficiently and expand confidently across regulated markets.

Slotegrator builds on aggregation success with expanding product ecosystem

Scale, speed and ecosystem depth have all proved capable of delivering market leadership. GamblingIQ's annual Studios 10 Index examines why Pragmatic Play, Octoplay and Games Global emerged as 2026's leading game innovators.

Alexandre Tomic on reverse integration, API governance, and why the industry’s biggest risks now lie downstream—not upstream.

Backed by Matchbook’s UK Gambling licence via Triplebet, easyBet’s prediction pivot leans on Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s experience building brands that win on value, trust and scale.

After witnessing Full Tilt Poker's collapse in 2011, Paysafe’s EMEA iGaming General Manager brings hard-earned fraud, payments and risk expertise to a rapidly evolving global market.

Vasilije Lekovic joined Trustly as employee No. 40 and helped turn Pay N Play from a hard sell into one of the industry’s payments gold standards.

GamblingIQ’s third annual payments leaderboard has put Paysafe, Trustly and MiFinity at the front of the pack for 2026, in a ranking that reads less like a list of processors and more like a map of where iGaming payments is heading. The verdict is clear: the strongest players are no longer simply moving money; they are building the rails that shape identity, conversion, retention, security, player affordability and market expansion.

From open banking to local options, KPMG’s Head of Gaming Europe argues payment design now drives onboarding economics, liquidity risk and player confidence.

Jumio’s EMEA Vice President, (an avid cricketer), says the sector has moved from one-off KYC to continuous identity intelligence, with orchestration now doing the heavy lifting.

The “Cost of Cards” article features in the annual payments report, 'Advancing the Game, 2026' from GamblingIQ. Deyanov – who has a decade of experience in payments – outlines the commercial challenges facing operators that depend heavily on legacy card rails.

New Paysafe solution converts cryptocurrency into dollars almost instantly — cutting out volatility, slashing friction and making crypto as easy as traditional deposits.

Mobile Carrier Queen Bettina Sommer has spent the past 5 years at DIMOCO turning carrier billing from telecom back-end infrastructure into a regulated iGaming rail — and Germany’s NEO.bet launch is the latest proof that it is about to cut through.