Who said B2B media had to be boring?

Serious business. Questionable poultry.

iGaming news, supplier intelligence and conversations worth your time.

THE COOP’s Chicken Executive Officer: an orange, flame-combed chicken in a charcoal suit, adjusting a cuff. Fictional illustration.

The CEOChicken Executive Officer

The human problem

The work behind every business decision.

Before a call, a contract or a conference, someone has to piece the picture together from stories, supplier claims, register records and event lists. Usually by hand, and usually in a hurry.

That legwork is where
THE COOP starts.

01
What actually changed?

Pieced together from
- news
- regulator notices
- company announcements
02
Who is credible?

Pieced together from
- licence registers
- track records
- named customers
03
What does the product really support?

Pieced together from
- supplier websites
- terms
- documentation
- case studies
04
Who should I meet, and why?

Pieced together from
- exhibitor lists
- agendas
- profiles
- introductions

What we are building

A media company built for the next workflow.

One maintained knowledge base, expressed two ways. Flip it.

One maintained record

Sources
Dates
Evidence
What’s unknown

Same facts. Same sources.

Payments

Nuvei says global. Which entity covers your flow?

Nuvei’s licences page lists e-money and payment institutions in the UK, the Netherlands, Cyprus and Lithuania. We matched each one to its official register.

4 entities register-matchedChecked 29 Sep 2026Gambling pricing not published

{
  "supplier": "Nuvei",
  "entity": "Nuvei Financial Services Limited",
  "fact": "UK e-money institution",
  "value": "FCA FRN 994233",
  "status": "register-matched",
  "source": "register.fca.org.uk",
  "checked": "2026-09-29",
  "unknown": ["gambling pricing", "rolling reserve"]
}

The same fact as structured data, from Nuvei’s profile

The flock

Part human. Part AI. Entirely poultry.

Pixel-art newsroom: human editors and AI chickens at desks, with a noisy city of screens on one side and clean article cards on the other. Fictional illustration.

Human chickens

Own the relationships, the questions, verification and every publication decision.

AI chickens

Help gather, compare and organise sources. Their work arrives as drafts for human review.

Everyone in the newsroom is a chicken. Humans stay accountable.

That shared language gives THE COOP its name.

Fictional illustration. Pixel characters are not portraits of staff.

Editorial

Stories are the entry point.

Useful reporting brings people in. The record keeps them coming back.

News with context.
Explainers that go past the press release.
Interviews with the people doing the work.
Buyer questions, answered with sources.
Commentary with a point of view.

Can I steal you for five minutes?

Pixel-art CEO chicken in a suit holding a microphone. Fictional illustration.

In development, not yet published

What does “global payments” really cover? · Questions to ask before a new integration · What the press release leaves out

The industry graph

Every answer is a path.

The industry is a graph. Most tools give you tabs. Pick a question and follow the evidence to the person asking it.

The question

“We need a platform and a payment provider before SiGMA World. Who is actually licensed, what backs their claims, and who should we meet?”

Swipe sideways to explore the graph

Supplier intelligence Built · private preview

The supplier directory is growing fast.

1,227 searchable, filterable company profilesPayment providers and methods, platforms, crypto payments, identity and compliance, banking.

235

desk-reviewed profiles

964

company logos, each with its source

40

sourced customer accounts across 25 suppliers

What’s in it

155 payment service providers
94 payment methods
75 crypto payments
70 identity and compliance
55 platforms
41 banking
33 payment orchestration

Profiles can sit in more than one category. Every SiGMA World 2026 exhibitor also has a listing.

Two real profiles

Nuvei

Payment service provider

Desk-reviewed

Acquiring, alternative payment methods and payouts, with licensed entities in the UK, the Netherlands, Cyprus and Lithuania.

UK e-money institution: Nuvei Financial Services Limited, FCA FRN 994233
Netherlands payment institution: Nuvei Global Services B.V., DNB ref. F0005
Customer account: Rank Group: payments for its online brands, 2023 case study

4/5 evidence readiness (Good)

SBC Summit 2026 · stand E520

Ask themWhich Nuvei entity would acquire gambling transactions for each target market?

Vegangster

Platform, game and payment aggregator

Research candidate

B2B iGaming platform with turnkey, white-label, crypto and sweepstakes casino models, run by Green Platform N.V. of Curaçao.

Curaçao B2B licence: Green Platform N.V., OGL/2024/903/0373, active since 18 Dec 2024
Anjouan white-label licence: Claimed on its site; not found on Anjouan’s public registers on 30 Sep 2026
Pricing: No setup fee, monthly fee or revenue share published

Not scored yet (4 of 5 dimensions assessed)

SiGMA World 2026 · stand H4-4059

Ask themWho holds the Anjouan licence used for white label, and what is its number?

Excerpts from profiles in the private preview, checked 29–30 Sep 2026. Logos identify the companies; no partnership or endorsement implied.

Regulatory signals Planned

Signals will show what changed.

Official registers change quietly. We plan to watch selected licence and operator registers and record each change with its source, so readers know what happened, when, and how we know.

Registration, application and authorisation are different facts. We never treat one as another.

Company registeredA legal entity exists
Licence applied forAn application is on file
AuthorisedThe regulator grants permission
Status changeSuspension, surrender, enforcement

Every signal records, for example

What changed: Green Platform N.V. (Vegangster) holds a Curaçao B2B licence, OGL/2024/903/0373
Effective date: 18 December 2024
Observed date: 30 September 2026
Source: Curaçao Gaming Authority certificate portal

A real record from the directory, shown in the planned signal format.

What we would watch

Newly authorised operators · Licence status changes · Brands and domains · Enforcement actions

Example official sources: UK Gambling Commission public register; Malta Gaming Authority licensee hub.

Event intelligence Built · private preview

Events become useful before the doors open.

Know who is exhibiting, where they are and what to ask them, before you pack the badge. The guide covers SBC Summit week in Lisbon and SiGMA World in Rome.

6

events on the calendar

3

interactive floor plans

1,467

exhibitor placements

976

linked to company profiles

Calendar with a world map and region filters
Floor-plan search by company or booth
Company cards linked to directory profiles
My show: save stands, add notes, export the list

Built from organisers’ published floor plans and exhibitor data, with sources. No private attendee lists, no guessed attendance. Snapshot 1 Oct 2026; not public yet.

Stand E520

Nuvei

Acquiring, alternative payment methods and payouts; licensed entities in four countries, each matched to its register.

Stand E611

Trustly

Open-banking deposits and payouts, including a Pay N Play flow for casino operators, through Swedish and UK payment institutions.

Stand E216

Paysafe

Card processing for iGaming alongside its own wallets, Skrill and NETELLER, and paysafecard vouchers; UK and Irish e-money institutions.

My show: nothing saved yet.

Stands from the organisers’ floor plans; descriptions are THE COOP’s, from sourced profile research. Logos identify the companies; no partnership or endorsement implied.

Website, API and MCP

One industry record, two ways in.

Readers and AI assistants would draw on the same published, source-linked records.

For people: the website

Read it.

Journalism, supplier profiles and comparisons, with sources and checked dates on the page.

Built · private preview Supplier directory and event guide. Public site: holding page today.

For AI agents: API / MCP

Query it. Planned

A documented read-only API first, then an MCP interface, over the same published records.

Your team’s AI assistantIllustrative

An answer drawing on THE COOP records would show

Matching supplier profiles, with links
The evidence behind each claim, with source URLs
When each fact was last checked
What is supplier-stated and what we have checked
What is still unknown

Illustrative question and answer outline. The API and MCP interface are planned, not live. They would expose published records only, and label claims that are supplier-stated or unverified.

Participation

How partners participate.

You bring.

Verified company identity
Product facts and markets
Case studies
Event plans
A human contact

We check.

Every item is checked, dated and attributed.

Supplier-provided material is labelled as supplier-stated until we can confirm it.

Everyone gains.

A richer, source-linked record that buyers, and later their AI assistants, can use.

A direct line to the newsroom.

Hypothesis Possible collaborations: disclosed sponsorship, commissioned research, paid data and API access. No packages or pricing yet.

Paid relationships never purchase favourable ratings.

Editorial facts and ratings stay independent. Commercial relationships will always be disclosed.

Come into the Coop.

Talk to the newsroom.
Contribute evidence.
Help shape the industry’s information layer.

Enter the Coop thecoop.media

linkedin.com/company/thecoop-media

thecoop.media shows our holding page today; the full publication is in preparation.

Got a story? We’ve got questions.

THE COOP’s CEO chicken, full length, in a charcoal suit. Fictional illustration.

Your Trusted Partner for Industry Insights

Who said B2B media had to be boring?

The work behind every business decision.

What actually changed?

Who is credible?

What does the product really support?

Who should I meet, and why?

A media company built for the next workflow.

Nuvei says global. Which entity covers your flow?

Part human. Part AI. Entirely poultry.

Stories are the entry point.

Every answer is a path.

The supplier directory is growing fast.

Nuvei

Vegangster

Signals will show what changed.

Events become useful before the doors open.

Nuvei

Trustly

Paysafe

Vegangster

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One industry record, two ways in.

Read it.

Query it. Planned

How partners participate.

You bring.

We check.

Everyone gains.

Come into the Coop.