Updated: December 22, 2023
With this article, we will zoom in on one of the most highly approved independent international leaders, specializing in online gaming software and systems certification – the non-profit eCOGRA – Independent Agency Approved Casinos.
Based in the United Kingdom, operating since 2003, eCOGRA demonstrates the highest possible standards of professionalism and impartiality from operators and software suppliers to regulators in the internet gaming industry.
Legally standardizing the relations between the Canadian online casinos and the punters, the company is actively engaged in interpreting players’ rights and obligations during virtual gambling and assisting in their disputes – whether related to gambling transactions or regulatory issues.
As a testing agency, eCOGRA is accredited by various online gaming jurisdictions (in more than 20 countries) and frequently performs onsite evaluations to verify operators’ compliance with each jurisdiction’s regulatory requirements.
As a regulatory organization, eCOGRA is busy monitoring, reporting, analyzing, certification, testing, mediating, and introducing the common standards for the contemporary Canadian online casino marketplace: gambling houses and their players.
Company main activities are:
Casino payout reviews are carried out monthly on the following game categories:
Casino RNG reviews are organized twice a year on the following game types:
Nowadays, eCOGRA provides compliance services to more than 100 of the Canadian online casino industry’s leading operators and software suppliers, including Microgaming and NetEnt.
NetEnt Awarded ISO 27001 Certification
Nasdaq-listed software provider certified by eCOGRA – London 9 April 2020
“NetEnt has joined the noteworthy list of online gambling organizations to be certified by the accredited testing laboratory eCOGRA for compliance with the International Standards Organisation 27001:2013 certification for Information Security Management Systems.”