About us

Our editorial mission

Non-GamStop Fintech exists to explain the non-GamStop topic from the payments and anti-money-laundering side of UK consumer finance, rather than from the operator side. Most publications addressing this search space treat the deposit as a background technicality and the operator as the foreground. This site inverts that ordering. It treats the deposit as the foreground and the operator as the entity at the far end of a payment rail that a UK bank is monitoring in real time. That change of angle produces a different set of pages, a different set of source citations and a different centre of gravity for the reader. The site does not carry rankings, comparison grids, bonus tables or affiliate links. It carries prose about how the payment mechanics actually work, and it holds each page to a plain-language standard that a reader who has never opened a UKGC public consultation document can follow at first pass.

The site takes its ethical framing from the UK public-information tradition rather than from the affiliate-marketing tradition. Every page opens with a safety banner pointing at the National Gambling Helpline and every content page ends with the helpline banner alongside a repeated phone number. The editorial line does not treat non-GamStop deposits as a workaround, does not treat GamStop cancellation as a route around self-exclusion, and does not treat third-party removal services as anything other than a warning. Where an operator sits outside UKGC remit, the site describes the position plainly, sets out the consumer-protection losses, and directs the reader at the resources that would sit at the front of any responsible conversation about the topic. If the site's tone reads as unfussy, that is the intended effect; the reader is not on a marketing page and should not be treated as if they were.

How we produce, check and update content

Each page on this site is drafted against a whitelist of official UK sources, primarily gamblingcommission.gov.uk, gamstop.co.uk, gamcare.org.uk, begambleaware.org, gov.uk and legislation.gov.uk. Where a statement of fact sits on the site, it is drafted against one of those sources first and reworked against the source before publication. Statements that cannot be traced to one of those sources do not appear. Statements of trade practice, which the payments-side of the topic contains a fair number of, are flagged as such and given a shelf life that ends at the next substantive scheme-rule refresh from the card schemes or the UKGC. The site is updated on a rolling basis rather than on a fixed publication calendar, and every page carries a last-updated date in the footer alongside the reviewer's sign-off.

The review pass sits with Yasmin Cardoso in her capacity as an anti-money-laundering compliance lead formerly of Monzo. Her scope covers every payments-mechanics statement on the site, including the description of the gambling switch on HSBC, Monzo, Starling, Lloyds and Barclays current-account cards, the description of merchant category code 7995 mechanics under the 2025 Visa and Mastercard taskforce with the UKGC, the description of source-of-funds and source-of-wealth prompts under Regulation 28 of the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, and the description of Suspicious Activity Reports under Part 7 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. The review runs at each substantive update and is logged against the last-updated date. Corrections and reader responses are welcome by email and are logged against the changelog at the foot of the affected page.

Editorial policy on operator names, bonuses, and affiliate links

The site does not name individual operators. It does not carry bonus tables, comparison grids, ratings or rankings. It does not carry affiliate links. It does not take advertising revenue from the gambling sector, direct or indirect. The reasoning is straightforward: the payments-compliance side of the conversation cannot be written honestly by a publisher whose revenue depends on the reader depositing at any particular operator. Where general categories of operator are described on the site, they are described in generic terms such as offshore operator, Curaçao-licensed operator or non-UKGC operator, rather than by name. The banking side of the conversation does include named UK issuers, because the specific banks HSBC, Monzo, Starling, Lloyds and Barclays each operate their own customer-facing gambling switch and the reader needs the names in order to find the switch inside their own banking app.

The site's editorial line will change over time as the regulatory environment moves, as the payment mechanics evolve, and as the Statutory Levy framework in force since 6 April 2025 lands on the treatment and prevention side. Where a page is materially rewritten rather than lightly updated, a note appears in the reviewer's log alongside the last-updated date. Where an old page is deprecated, the URL is retained and pointed at the successor page rather than removed, on the view that inbound links to public-information pages should not silently break.

Contact and corrections

The editor accepts corrections and reader responses at [email protected]. Substantive corrections that go beyond typographic fixes are logged against the last-updated date and, where the reviewer's remit covers the change, are noted in a short reviewer log alongside. The site does not respond to marketing enquiries or to affiliate-partnership approaches, and the address should not be used for either. Where a reader is contacting the site to raise a complaint about an operator, the correct route is the operator's own complaints team followed by the operator's Alternative Dispute Resolution provider if UKGC-licensed, or the operator's local regulator if not.

The site's information is editorial in nature and does not constitute legal advice, tax advice, medical advice, treatment advice or investment advice. Where a reader needs advice in any of those categories, the correct route is a qualified professional in the relevant jurisdiction rather than a public-information site. If the moment is a crisis rather than a decision, the National Gambling Helpline is available 24 hours on 0808 8020 133 and the Samaritans are available 24 hours on 116 123.

Contact the editor, [email protected]. Reviewer, Yasmin Cardoso (ex-Monzo AML compliance lead).