Georgia has enabled the remaining infrastructure for its international iGaming licence regime, with Random Systems Georgia serving as the government-selected gambling regulator and a technical and policy adviser. The framework is intended for international operators, and Georgian citizens are excluded from participation.
The activation completes a process that began with a soft launch in July 2026. Random Systems says the framework was developed to align the government, Ministry of Finance, Revenue Service, regulators and banking sector under a unified system of governance.
A separate international framework
Parliament has accepted legislation establishing permits for the international provision of online casino games, slots and sports betting. The regime is intended to operate separately from Georgia’s domestic gambling market.
At SBC Summit Tbilisi on 15–16 July, Random Systems Georgia Supervisory Board member Vakhtang Katamadze discussed the plans with media and gaming entrepreneur Nika Gigashvili of SMH Holdings. Katamadze told SBC the framework is designed to bring licensing, banking, payments, taxation, regulation and operational support together.
“We believe the foundations are already in place. Now it is time to demonstrate that Georgia can offer the regulatory certainty and institutional confidence international businesses expect,” Katamadze told SBC.
Commercial proposition and execution
Tbilisi already hosts software providers, live casino operators, game studios and customer-support operations serving the global gambling industry. The source names Spribe, SmartSoft, Evolution Gaming, Flutter, Entain and Betsson among businesses with operations or industry competence in the city; Georgia’s stated aim is to capture more of the licensing and financial value associated with that activity.
Georgia International Strategic Group (GISG) has promoted the framework internationally since September 2026. The pitch is directed at operators from Western markets, Asia, the CIS and Central Asia, with the government-backed project presenting the country as a base connecting those markets. Other jurisdictions are also revising their approaches: Albania’s online sports betting framework and Austria’s planned online casino reform offer different models of licensing change.
The offer combines a five-year licence with access to Georgian corporate banking and arrangements for gambling-coded MCC 7995 payment processing. Published terms include a 5% gross gaming revenue rate, no tax on reinvested profits, a 1% regulatory monitoring fee and an annual permit fee; the source does not specify the annual fee amount. Remote onboarding is available, with no mandatory office requirement, and GISG is identified as the exclusive authorised representative for licensing international operators under the framework.
“Georgia is not building another licensing jurisdiction. We are building a country-level ecosystem for international iGaming”, Katamadze said in a launch statement supplied to SBC.
The next test is whether operators adopt the regime and whether its banking, regulatory and operational capacity works at international scale. The source says banks are onboarding operators, the regulator responds in days and the first licensees are preparing to go live.
Katamadze said an operator-focused upgrade was planned for announcement in October, rather than presenting it as an implemented change. The full programme, including the licensing process, fees and tax structure, is available on the GISG website.
“Trust is not written into law it is earned in practice. Georgia is earning it now: banks are onboarding operators, the regulator answers in days, the first licensees are preparing to go live. We are not asking the industry to take our word for it. We invite every serious operator to come and see the system working for themselves.”
SBC News reported the framework’s activation.
Petra Vanhoof has spent the better part of a decade following the shifting tides of gambling regulation across Europe and beyond. She came up through the compliance side of the industry before pivoting to writing, which gives her a grounded, no-nonsense perspective on the rules, loopholes, and political maneuvering that shape how operators actually do business. She is particularly drawn to the gap between what regulators say and what the market ends up doing in response.