Stakelogic BV agrees to £122,835 settlement after UK slot timing breaches

Stakelogic BV has agreed to a regulatory settlement with the UK Gambling Commission after its own testing and the regulator’s follow-up review found that 16 slot games ran faster than the technical standard allows. For PSPs and operators, the detail that matters is not just the fine: a manual stopwatch was the testing method, which turned a product-design issue into a compliance one.

1. The settlement stands at £122,835 ($161,725) after the Commission found breaches of its Responsible Product Design Remote Technical Standard (RTS) 14D. That standard requires a minimum 2.5-second interval from the initiation of one game cycle until the next can start.
2. The case started when Stakelogic self-reported Tiger Temple 88, which ran with a 1.97-second gap between game cycles. The Commission then asked for more information, and Stakelogic retested its entire portfolio available to UK players.
3. That retest found 15 additional games that also missed the 2.5-second minimum. The shortfall ranged from 0.001 seconds to 0.675 seconds, and many titles were less than 42 milliseconds (0.042 seconds) below the limit.
4. The timing breaches covered different periods. Tiger Temple 88 was non-compliant only between 28 May 2025 and 30 May 2025, while the other titles failed intermittently between 31 October 2021 and 30 October 2025.
5. The Commission said the errors came from Stakelogic’s use of a manual stopwatch for speed tests, a method it described as “open to significant inaccuracy”. John Pierce, Gambling Commission Director of Enforcement and Intelligence, said: “With all the technological resources available to an online gambling business, it is unacceptable that Stakelogic were relying on a manual stopwatch to measure the speed of their games.”

The regulator cited aggravating factors including Stakelogic’s failure to suspend Tiger Temple 88 immediately after identifying the non-compliance on 28 May 2025, and delays in conducting a full product review. Mitigating factors included Stakelogic voluntarily disabling all games offered to the Great Britain market, full cooperation with the investigation, and early acceptance of the failings.