A global standard for interactive gaming, claimed to be the very first in the world, has been recently announced by Gaming Laboratories International (GLI). GLI is a company that offers testing measurements to the online casino and gambling industry and is independent in the market. Entitled GLI-19, the standard published recently by GLI in their website, implements what the very first regulatory guideline for e-gaming at the global sphere. And according to the company, this standard is the very first that will serve as a direction for the several online casinos and other forms of gambling websites that are proliferating all over the world.

According to the president and CEO of GLI, James Maida, GLI-19, and the companies, GLI and TST, will now be able to provide assistance to the new online casino and gambling markets, as well as the emerging ones, in improving the various controls and systems at the technical level, that will help in facilitating these markets. For the regulators who are planning to draft their regulations on iGaming, they can integrate the standards set by GLI into their own jurisdictions, according to what is accepted by the global industry of online casinos and gambling.

The development of GLI-19 was very extensive. The company made a thorough review of the various jurisdictions offering online casino and gambling services and products. The guideline took one year for the company to compile after several consultations of the key stakeholders of the industry. According to Philip Barrow of GLI Europe, who is also the Managing Director of TST, the compendium is actually the very first set of standards for iGaming, and it includes all the best practices utilized in Europe and Canada. For those interested, they can simply download GLI-19.