Rebecca Hartwell

About Rebecca

Rebecca Hartwell leads the compliance-focused review desk at Mad Casino. Before joining the editorial team in 2022, she spent six years inside the operator side of the industry, latterly as a senior compliance officer at an MGA-licensed brand based in Malta where she owned the LCCP and CAP Code adherence programme for the UK-facing arm.

Rebecca writes from a controlled-test perspective, with every review built on a fresh account, a documented identity-verification cycle, a real-money deposit and a logged withdrawal. The compliance angle she brings is the difference between marketing copy and a verifiable evaluation — bonus mechanics get checked against the published terms, AML triggers get stress-tested, and dispute escalation paths get walked end-to-end before publication.

Areas of expertise

• UKGC LCCP compliance across deposit-limit defaults, reality checks and the suite of player-protection controls operators are expected to ship.
• MGA player-protection rules, source-of-funds workflow, fit-and-proper testing for senior staff.
• CAP Code and ASA enforcement for gambling advertising, including affiliate-channel oversight.
• Anti-money-laundering frameworks, the EU 5AMLD, the UK MLR 2017 as amended, and the practical operator workflow that flows from them.
• Responsible gambling tooling, GAMSTOP integration logic, deposit-limit cooling-off design, self-exclusion flow audit.
• Dispute resolution through IBAS, evidence packaging and timeline expectations.

Work experience

Casino Compliance Editor, Mad Casino · 2022 to present

Leads compliance-focused editorial reviews. Sets the testing methodology for every published review and approves all bonus-mechanic copy before it goes live. Owns the corrections process and the reader-complaint queue.

Senior Compliance Officer, MGA-licensed operator · 2018 to 2022

Owned the LCCP and CAP Code adherence programme for the UK-facing arm of an MGA-licensed brand. Built the responsible-gambling default stack that became the operator's UK launch posture in 2020.

Compliance Analyst, UK regulated sportsbook · 2015 to 2018

Started in second-line compliance at a UKGC-licensed sportsbook based in Gibraltar. Worked on the source-of-funds workflow design that survived two UKGC compliance audits without finding.

Education and certifications

MA Regulatory Affairs, University of Edinburgh

2013 to 2015. Dissertation on the application of EU consumer protection law to cross-border online gambling under the 2014 European Commission gambling recommendation.

Industry certifications

• ICA Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering (2018).
• UK CAP Code Compliance Workshop, Advertising Standards Authority (2019).
• GamCare Responsible Gambling Foundation Certificate (2017, refreshed 2024).

Editorial standards

Rebecca does not accept payment, free credits, hospitality or any other benefit from operators or studios in exchange for coverage. Affiliate links on every page carry a clearly visible sponsored disclosure, applied identically whether the review is positive or critical. Corrections requested by readers are reviewed within three working days and published with a dated change note where the correction is accepted.