{"id":1369,"date":"2026-08-06T07:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webpays.com\/blogs\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:12:30","slug":"best-igaming-payment-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webpays.com\/blogs\/best-igaming-payment-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Best iGaming Payment Solution for a New Online Casino Operator?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask ten operators what the &#8220;best&#8221; <strong>iGaming payment solution<\/strong> is, and you&#8217;ll get ten different answers \u2014 usually whichever provider approved their last application. That&#8217;s not how we think about it at Webpays, and after years of building high-risk gateways for gaming, casino, and gambling merchants, it&#8217;s not how we&#8217;d advise a new operator to think about it either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>An <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/igaming-payment-gateway-in-malta.html\"><strong>iGaming payment solution<\/strong><\/a><strong> is the combined stack of <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/payment-gateway-integration.html\"><strong>payment gateways<\/strong><\/a><strong>, processing partners, and locally preferred payment methods that lets a licensed online casino accept deposits and settle withdrawals compliantly, in the right currency, under the regulatory framework of each market it operates in.<\/strong> There&#8217;s no single &#8220;best&#8221; brand. There&#8217;s only the right combination for the licences you actually hold \u2014 which is the first conversation we have with any new operator, well before pricing or integration timelines come up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Best-iGaming-Payment-Solution-for-New-Casino-Operators-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Best iGaming Payment Solution\" class=\"wp-image-1370\" style=\"width:741px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Best-iGaming-Payment-Solution-for-New-Casino-Operators-2026.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/webpays.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Best-iGaming-Payment-Solution-for-New-Casino-Operators-2026-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/webpays.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Best-iGaming-Payment-Solution-for-New-Casino-Operators-2026-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That distinction matters more than anything else. A payment stack built for Sweden will fail in the UAE. A stack built for the Philippines won&#8217;t clear a single deposit in New Jersey. Here&#8217;s how the picture changes across four very different market clusters, and what we tell operators to look for in a payment partner at each stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why &#8220;Best&#8221; Depends Entirely on Where You&#8217;re Licensed<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Online casinos sit in the <a href=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/high-risk-merchant-account.html\"><strong>high-risk merchant<\/strong><\/a> category almost everywhere in the world, regardless of how well-regulated the operator is. That classification alone determines which providers will even consider your application, what reserve they&#8217;ll hold against your revenue, and how quickly they&#8217;ll release your payouts. It&#8217;s the first thing we assess with any new merchant, before anything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six factors decide whether a payment partner actually works for a new operator, not just on paper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Licensing fit<\/strong> \u2014 does the provider already hold authorisation and banking relationships in the jurisdictions you&#8217;re licensed in?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Approval and acceptance rates<\/strong> \u2014 global averages mean nothing; ask for acceptance rates in your specific country and currency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Payout speed<\/strong> \u2014 players judge an operator by how fast winnings arrive, not how fast deposits clear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Local method coverage<\/strong> \u2014 a Visa\/Mastercard-only setup can lose 30\u201350% of deposits in markets where local rails dominate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fraud and chargeback tooling<\/strong> \u2014 3D Secure, velocity checks, and device fingerprinting are baseline, not bonus features.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fee and reserve structure at your volume<\/strong> \u2014 rates quoted to a $50M-a-month operator rarely apply to a startup processing its first thousand transactions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now let&#8217;s look at how those six factors play out region by region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Western Markets: North America&#8217;s Fragmented, State-by-State Reality<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no federal online casino law in the United States. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 restricts payment processing tied to &#8220;unlawful&#8221; internet gambling but leaves each state to define what&#8217;s unlawful \u2014 which is why payment compliance here is really fifty separate rulebooks, not one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of mid-2026, real-money <a href=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/online-casino-payment-gateway.html\"><strong>online casino gaming<\/strong><\/a> is licensed in eight states: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Connecticut, West Virginia, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Maine. The American Gaming Association&#8217;s 2025 State of the States report put regulated iGaming revenue at $10.7 billion for the year, up nearly 28% \u2014 real money, concentrated in a genuinely small number of markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a new operator, that concentration changes the payment brief entirely. You&#8217;re not choosing a global PSP; you&#8217;re choosing one that already has live integrations with the specific state-licensed banks and card-scheme relationships in NJ, PA, MI, or wherever you&#8217;re launching, plus geofencing (typically IP, GPS, and cell-tower triangulation) built into the deposit flow so no transaction clears outside a licensed state line. ACH and debit remain the deposit workhorses; credit card acceptance varies by issuer, and several major card networks still decline gambling-coded transactions outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One more thing worth flagging before you sign anywhere: US regulators have turned sharply against sweepstakes-style dual-currency casinos through 2025\u20132026, and several states are now naming payment processors and banks directly in enforcement action, not just the platforms themselves. If a provider is currently processing for sweepstakes operators, ask exactly how they separate that book of business from state-licensed real-money gaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Europe: The Global Benchmark for Regulated, Instant Payments<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Europe is the market every other region gets compared against, and it&#8217;s also where we do a large share of our own <strong>high-risk gateway<\/strong> work, particularly with operators licensed in the <strong>Netherlands<\/strong> and neighbouring markets. The EU&#8217;s Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) built the legal foundation for open banking, and iGaming was one of the first industries to exploit it at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trustly&#8217;s &#8220;Pay N Play&#8221; model is the clearest example: registration, KYC, and the first deposit collapse into one bank-authenticated flow that takes under three minutes in markets like the Netherlands, with the deposit settling instantly and no card details ever entering the casino&#8217;s system. Trustly alone now connects more than 112 million players across 30-plus European markets and over 12,000 banks. That&#8217;s the bar European players expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But &#8220;Europe&#8221; is not one market, and treating it like one is the most common budgeting mistake new operators make here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Nordics<\/strong> \u2014 open banking and instant KYC dominate; card-only setups underperform badly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Netherlands<\/strong> \u2014 iDEAL is close to mandatory; skip it and you&#8217;re leaving roughly half your deposits on the table.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>UK<\/strong> \u2014 credit cards have been banned for gambling deposits since 2020, and affordability and deposit-limit checks continue tightening through 2026.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>DACH and Southern Europe<\/strong> \u2014 cards and prepaid vouchers like Paysafecard still carry real weight, especially where bank-transfer adoption is slower.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Layer GDPR and the EU&#8217;s fifth <a href=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/aml-policy.html\"><strong>Anti-Money Laundering<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Directive on top, and you have a market that rewards operators who localise their payment stack per country rather than launching one EU-wide configuration. PSD3 and a new Payment Services Regulation are both moving through the European Parliament and will reshape liability rules further \u2014 worth tracking if you&#8217;re building for a multi-year runway, not just launch day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Middle East: A Narrow, Newly Opened Regulatory Window<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the region where getting the payment strategy wrong isn&#8217;t just expensive \u2014 it&#8217;s a legal problem, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a marketing one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/online-gambling-payment-processing.html\"><strong>Online gambling<\/strong><\/a> remains prohibited by law across most of the Gulf. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain enforce strict bans rooted in Sharia law, and that extends explicitly to facilitating payments for gambling activity, not just operating a platform. No payment solution makes processing for these markets compliant, and we won&#8217;t take on a merchant asking us to try. Any provider offering to &#8220;work around&#8221; that restriction is a liability, not a payment partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one significant shift is the UAE. Federal Decree-Law No. 25\/2025 took effect on 1 June 2026, giving the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA) the legal foundation to license and supervise commercial gaming nationwide for the first time in the country&#8217;s history. It&#8217;s a narrow door, not an open one: most industry observers expect a maximum of one B2C <a href=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/top-high-risk-payment-solutions-online-gaming-websites.html\"><strong>online gaming<\/strong><\/a> licence per emirate, with only two or three emirates likely to participate, and B2B suppliers are being licensed well ahead of consumer-facing operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For payments specifically, GCGRA rules require licensees to hold player funds in accounts segregated from operating capital, and any payment service provider working with a licensee must carry its own GCGRA or Central Bank of the UAE authorisation \u2014 an existing European PSP relationship doesn&#8217;t transfer automatically. Licensed operators are also classified as Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions under UAE AML law, which means customer due diligence above AED 11,000, sanctions and PEP screening, a named Money Laundering Reporting Officer, and suspicious transaction reporting through the goAML system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside the UAE&#8217;s new framework, legal gambling in the wider region is limited almost entirely to a handful of tourist-facing venues in countries like Lebanon and Egypt, and even those generally exclude local citizens by law. For a new operator, the responsible read on the Middle East in 2026 is simple: the GCGRA pathway is the only legitimate way in, it&#8217;s early, and it&#8217;s built for operators licensing properly \u2014 not for routing around a ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Asia: Philippines Leads a Region Without a Common Standard<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asia has no single regulatory model the way Europe has PSD2, which is exactly why payment planning here has to be built market by market from day one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippines is the clearest exception. The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) is one of the only dedicated iGaming regulators anywhere in Asia, and it now licenses over 200 online operators serving players both inside and outside the country. Payment behaviour here looks nothing like Europe: mobile e-wallets, not cards, run the show. GCash alone has surpassed 94 million registered users and clears most casino transactions in minutes at near-zero in-market fees, with Maya and GrabPay holding meaningful share behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regulation has also tightened fast. PAGCOR shut down the offshore gaming operator (POGO) segment in 2025, launched a new operator-verification portal, and \u2014 as of late 2025 \u2014 mandated identity verification before a player&#8217;s first deposit rather than after. Rules around card and crypto acceptance at PAGCOR-licensed operators are still evolving and vary by provider, so confirm current policy directly with PAGCOR or a licensing consultant rather than assuming last year&#8217;s rules still apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the Philippines, most of Asia sits somewhere between heavily restricted and outright prohibited \u2014 mainland China and several Southeast Asian markets ban online gambling outright, while others tolerate it in legal grey zones without formally licensing it. The practical implication for a new operator: build your Asia strategy around the Philippines&#8217; regulated model first, treat every other market in the region as its own compliance question, and never assume a payment method that works in Manila is legal to offer in a neighbouring country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Payment Method Types, Compared<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Method<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Deposit speed<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Payout speed<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Typical fees<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Where it dominates<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cards (Visa\/Mastercard)<\/td><td>Instant<\/td><td>1\u20135 business days<\/td><td>Medium\u2013high, chargeback risk<\/td><td>Southern\/Central Europe, parts of Asia<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>E-wallets (Skrill, Neteller, GCash, Maya)<\/td><td>Instant<\/td><td>Minutes\u201324 hours<\/td><td>Low\u2013medium<\/td><td>Philippines, privacy-conscious players globally<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Open banking \/ Pay by Bank (Trustly, Zimpler)<\/td><td>Instant<\/td><td>Minutes<\/td><td>Low, no chargebacks<\/td><td>Nordics, Netherlands, UK<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Crypto \/ stablecoins (USDT, BTC)<\/td><td>Minutes<\/td><td>Minutes\u20131 hour<\/td><td>Network fees only<\/td><td>Crypto-friendly licensed markets<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Prepaid vouchers (Paysafecard, Neosurf)<\/td><td>Instant<\/td><td>Not supported for payout<\/td><td>Low, no bank link needed<\/td><td>DACH, Central\/Eastern Europe<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bank transfer \/ ACH<\/td><td>Same day\u20133 days<\/td><td>1\u20135 business days<\/td><td>Low<\/td><td>US, larger transactions everywhere<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No single row wins everywhere, which is exactly why &#8220;best payment solution&#8221; is a stack question, not a shopping question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why Banks Treat Online Casinos as High-Risk \u2014 and What That Means for Your Stack<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Card networks and acquiring banks code <strong>online casinos as high-risk<\/strong> regardless of how clean the operator&#8217;s compliance record is. Three things drive that: elevated chargeback rates compared with standard e-commerce, a well-documented history of bonus abuse and stolen-card deposits, and the regulatory exposure a bank takes on simply by being adjacent to gambling transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That classification isn&#8217;t a formality \u2014 it shapes your actual costs. Expect rolling reserves (a percentage of revenue held back for a set period), higher per-transaction fees than a standard e-commerce merchant account, and close scrutiny of your chargeback ratio, with most acquirers setting hard thresholds that can trigger account termination if crossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fix isn&#8217;t avoiding <a href=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/high-risk-processing.html\"><strong>high-risk processing<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 every legitimate operator goes through it. It&#8217;s building fraud tooling in from day one: 3D Secure on card transactions (versus a 2D flow, which skips the extra authentication step for speed at the cost of shifting more liability back onto the merchant), velocity checks that flag unusual deposit patterns, device fingerprinting, and IP\/geolocation verification tied into your KYC flow. Operators who bolt this on after their first chargeback spike lose far more in frozen reserves than they&#8217;d have spent building it properly at launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Where Webpays Fits Into This<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re a <a href=\"https:\/\/webpays.com\/high-risk-payment-gateway.html\"><strong>high-risk payment gateway<\/strong><\/a> built around exactly the complexity this guide describes. Gaming, casino, and gambling merchants sit alongside forex, adult, and subscription businesses as the categories traditional processors turn away first \u2014 it&#8217;s the category we specialise in, not a side line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In practice, that means a few concrete things for a new operator: <strong>multi-currency processing<\/strong> so you&#8217;re not forcing every player into a single settlement currency, both <strong>2D and 3D gateway<\/strong> options depending on how you want to balance checkout friction against chargeback liability, and <strong>fraud and chargeback<\/strong> tooling built around gambling&#8217;s specific abuse patterns rather than adapted from generic e-commerce. We&#8217;re PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant, and pricing is quoted per business rather than off a flat rate card \u2014 a startup running its first thousand transactions a month gets a different conversation than an operator processing at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What we won&#8217;t do is promise coverage we can&#8217;t deliver. If a market sits outside what we and our banking partners can support compliantly \u2014 parts of the Middle East fall squarely into that category today \u2014 we&#8217;ll tell you that upfront rather than take the application and leave you exposed later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Practical Framework for Choosing Your Stack<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skip the &#8220;top 10 providers&#8221; lists. Work through this order instead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lock your licensing jurisdiction before you talk to a single PSP.<\/strong> Payment strategy is downstream of licensing, never the other way around.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Map local method coverage for each specific market<\/strong>, not global brand recognition. A provider everyone&#8217;s heard of is worthless if it doesn&#8217;t clear iDEAL in the Netherlands or GCash in the Philippines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ask for acceptance rates in your country and currency<\/strong>, with references from operators at your volume \u2014 not the enterprise client the sales deck was built around.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Test payout speed yourself<\/strong> with a real account before committing. Marketing copy and production reality rarely match on withdrawal times.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Get the full fee and reserve structure in writing<\/strong> for your actual projected volume, not the headline rate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Plan for at least two processors per region from the start.<\/strong> Single-PSP setups fail the moment one processor freezes an account or exits a market \u2014 and in this industry, that happens more often than operators expect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Bottom Line<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s no single <strong>best iGaming payment provider<\/strong>, in 2026 or any other year \u2014 there&#8217;s a best stack for your specific licences. For most new operators launching across Western, European, Middle Eastern, and Asian markets, that stack looks less like one contract and more like several: an <strong>open-banking<\/strong> or e-wallet leader for local method coverage, a card acquirer with genuine gambling-MCC experience for the markets that still run on cards, a crypto rail where licensing allows it, and a high-risk gateway underneath that can actually get your business approved and keep it that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re at the stage of finalising a licence and starting to map out that stack, that&#8217;s the exact conversation our team has with new operators every week. Get in touch with Webpays and we&#8217;ll walk through what your specific markets actually need \u2014 not a generic quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What&#8217;s the single biggest payment mistake new iGaming operators make?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choosing a payment brand before finalising their licence and target market. Payment coverage is downstream of licensing \u2014 a stack built for Sweden won&#8217;t clear deposits in the Philippines, and vice versa. Lock the jurisdiction first, then shop for a provider that already operates there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Can one payment gateway realistically cover Western markets, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia at once?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not well. A handful of large multi-rail providers claim global coverage, but local method depth \u2014 iDEAL, GCash, Trustly, UAE-authorised PSPs \u2014 still beats broad coverage on approval rates. Most established operators run two to four regional processors under one orchestration layer rather than a single global contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Is cryptocurrency a safe primary payment method for a new casino operator?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a strong secondary rail, not a safe primary one for most new operators. Stablecoin usage is genuinely growing \u2014 industry estimates put USDT acceptance at roughly 38% of online casinos in 2026 \u2014 but crypto-only or crypto-first setups struggle with regulatory acceptance in licensed markets like the UK, most of the EU, and the Philippines, where fiat rails remain mandatory alongside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why do banks and card networks classify online casinos as high-risk merchants?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elevated chargeback rates, a history of bonus-abuse and stolen-card fraud, and the regulatory exposure that comes with processing gambling transactions at all. This applies even to fully licensed, compliant operators \u2014 it&#8217;s a category classification, not a judgment of any individual business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How long does it typically take to get approved for a casino merchant account?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a new operator with clean documentation, licensing proof, and a completed AML\/KYC framework, expect four to eight weeks with a specialist high-risk processor. Applying without a finalised licence, or to a generalist payment provider unfamiliar with gambling, routinely stretches that to several months \u2014 or ends in a decline. At Webpays, we tell merchants upfront which of their documents are likely to slow things down, rather than letting that surface mid-application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask ten operators what the &#8220;best&#8221; iGaming payment solution is, and you&#8217;ll get ten different answers \u2014 usually whichever provider approved their last application. 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