Emily Richardson
Editor · Canadian gambling regulation, payments and slots
Emily is Editor at Betty CA, where she covers the Canadian regulatory landscape, Interac and iDebit payment rails, provincial VSE registries (iGO Ontario, BCLC, Loto-Québec) and operator-side FINTRAC compliance. If you want to understand why a specific Betty deposit fails on a specific bank card in Ontario, or how iGO's April 2022 credit-card ban actually affects offshore operators like us, she's the person who wrote the piece explaining it. Based in Toronto.
Before joining Betty, Emily spent eight years at The Globe and Mail and Financial Post covering fintech, payment infrastructure, cross-border money movement, and eventually the AGCO iGaming Ontario launch in 2022. She published the first mainstream analysis of iGO vs offshore operator economics in Canadian gambling. Her writing is deliberately data-driven — cites regulatory filings, quotes bank policy documents, converts figures to C$ (never USD default). She joined Betty in 2023 when the platform went live because the offshore-vs-provincial-iGO market split needed clear explanation for Canadian players.
Areas of expertise
Canadian gambling regulation (AGCO iGaming Ontario, BCLC, Loto-Québec, provincial VSE registries), payment infrastructure (Interac e-Transfer, iDebit, Instadebit rails, Visa/Mastercard MCC 7995 CA bank blocks), FINTRAC C$10,000 reporting compliance, offshore vs provincial licensing economics, PIPEDA privacy compliance, provincial age-verification (19+ / 18+ AB-MB-QC), CRA gambling tax treatment (casual vs professional), Ontario Voluntary Self-Exclusion via iGO, slot mathematics (RTP variance, hit distribution, Bonus Buy EV), live-casino Evolution studios, ConnexOntario and Problem Gambling Institute of Ontario referral pathways.
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