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TGP Europe Limited Information

Who are TGP Europe Limited?

The “TGP” in “TGP Europe Limited” stands for “The Gaming Platform.” That doesn’t tell you much about what the company does, but we can happily fill in the blanks. It’s a company that takes the “platform” side of things literally – it operates a white-label platform that powers a couple of sports betting sites you’re likely to have heard of, plus quite a few that you haven’t.

There are currently twenty live betting sites on the TGP Europe Limited platform, which is down from the company’s prime years when it operated more than thirty. The overwhelming majority of the remaining sites are all but unheard of in terms of the impact they’ve made in the UK. We doubt, for example, that many people reading these words have played at Bob88, DuelBits, or TLC Bet. If you’ve heard of any of the TGP Europe Limited sites, it will likely be Stake.com or Fun88. Even then, it’s likely to be because of the high-profile sports betting sponsorships they’ve taken part in. We’ll go into more detail about those higher-profile sites a little further down this page, but before that, we’ll take a look under the bonnet of The Gaming Platform.

An overview of TGP Europe Limited

TGP Europe Limited is based in the Isle of Man, which means that from an organisational point of view, it’s not technically a UK company. Being based in the Isle of Man means that the company doesn’t have to report to Companies House, which makes information about the business a little harder to come by than it would be if this were genuinely a UK-based operation. However, we’ve been able to verify that the company was incorporated in September 2008. Therefore, it can be considered to have a wealth of experience in the iGaming sector by this point.

As the company isn’t required to publish accounts in the UK, it’s difficult to get a sense of how many people work for TGP Europe Limited or how much money the company makes (or doesn’t make). Unusually for a company of this size, though TGP Europe has a Wikipedia entry. It’s more of a stub than a detailed profile, but it offers a little additional information. Wikipedia notes that TGP Europe primarily serves as a licensed operator for numerous international gambling brands. Many of the white-label partners that work with TGP Europe are based in Vietnam, the Philippines, or China. To get a better sense of this company, we need to look at its official website.

TGP Europe Limited in its own words

As good-looking as the official TGP Europe Limited website is, it wastes no time getting to business. The main order of that business is splattered all over the homepage of the site in bold lettering – it says “tailored white label gaming solutions.” There isn’t an enormous amount of information on the site about the company itself, but if you visit the “about us” page, you’ll find a short self-description from the firm. It sees itself as (and this is a direct quote) “A flexible and dynamic online gaming platform for our business partners.”

Every white-label casino network company uses similar language when touting for business from prospective partners, so there isn’t much about the TGP Europe Limited page that feels unique in this respect. There’s a lot of talk about “quality partners,” “flexibility,” and other such buzzwords and buzzphrases. The company is keen to emphasise that it can offer as much or as little support to its white-label partners as the partner desires. It can take over the full running of a site if required, but it can also do as little as offering nothing beyond back-office support. The fact that TGP Europe Limited has a UKGC licence is listed as a specific benefit of working with the company.

There’s a whole page of the company website dedicated to the other benefits of working with TGP, some of which are easier to comprehend than others. “Low-cost, fast market entry” is a benefit that sounds desirable and everybody can understand. On the other hand, we’d suggest that “focus” is the minimum a company should expect out of a white-label partner rather than a company-specific benefit. Saving money is a recurring theme throughout all of the suggested benefits, with TGP Europe pointing out that it can adsorb back office design costs, labour costs, fees for payment processing, and the costs associated with applying for and maintaining a licence.

Unlike a lot of casino network company websites, which have a nasty habit of being set up and then left to rot for years on end, the TGP Europe Limited site is kept up to date with all the latest developments within the company. The most recent news at the time this page was written was the addition of BK8 to the UK-facing TGP Europe platform, which came hot on the heels of the announcement of a partnership between TGP and DuelBits. If either of those casinos ever catches on in the UK, we’ll cover them in more detail at Sister Site.

TGP Europe Limited and the UK Gambling Commission

It won’t come as a surprise to you to hear that TGP Europe Limited has a valid UK Gambling Commission licence. We’ve already said that the company makes a selling point out of it when it’s trying to attract new white-label partners, and it wouldn’t be able to offer its services in the UK without one. It’s licence number 38898, and it was issued in November 2014.

In February 2023, TGP Europe Limited was fined, had further conditions attached to its licence, and was handed a formal warning by the UK Gambling Commission after a review of the company’s operating licence. During the review, the regulator identified breaches of licence conditions covering money laundering and customer interaction. The UKGC noted that TGP Europe had been fully cooperative with the regulator throughout the investigation and that corrective steps were taken after the breaches were pointed out, but that wasn’t enough to save TGP Europe from having to pay a fine of £316,250.