UK offshore gambling growth puts payment routing and settlement back in focus

The UK’s offshore online gambling market is projected to grow after the government raised Remote Gaming Duty, according to new modelling from H2 Gambling Capital reported by iGaming Business. The report matters beyond gambling policy because it points to a familiar operating problem for digital platforms: when tax and margin pressure change, payment flows, settlement choices, and treasury workflows often change with them.

H2’s analysis estimates offshore gross gaming yield rose from about £200 million in 2019 to £685 million in 2025, with offshore turnover forecast to increase from roughly £5 billion to £16.6 billion over the same period. The report says the offshore share of UK online gambling has expanded as channelisation has weakened, with licensed operators capturing most web visits but a smaller share of spend. H2 also links the April 2026 rise in Remote Gaming Duty to further player migration offshore.

For operators and platform teams, the commercial takeaway is not just about where customers play. It is about how quickly money can move, how cleanly balances can be reconciled, and how settlement is handled across jurisdictions and currencies. When traffic shifts, finance teams need payment rails that can support changing acquisition, payout, and treasury patterns without forcing a rebuild of the stack.

That is one reason crypto and stablecoin infrastructure keeps showing up in conversations around global digital businesses. Faster movement between crypto, stablecoins, and fiat can help teams manage payout timing, operational liquidity, and cross-border settlement, particularly when they are serving distributed users or partners. For businesses that need to accept crypto payments or run platform-level money movement, Radom’s crypto payments platform is built for that kind of workflow. It supports hosted checkout, payment links, invoices, subscriptions, payouts, and APIs from one account, with settlement in crypto or fiat depending on the use case. See crypto payments.

The report also highlights a broader structural point. UK-licensed operators still dominate web visits, but spend is more sensitive to economics than traffic alone. That matters for payment operations because volume, average ticket size, and settlement mix can change at different speeds. A platform that can accept payments, manage balances, and convert between assets where needed is better placed to adapt than one tied to a single rail or a narrow set of payout options.

H2’s forecast suggests offshore turnover could reach about £36 billion by 2031, while offshore GGY could rise to around £1.4 billion. Those are market-level estimates, not a product roadmap for any one operator, but they underline why finance and payments teams in regulated and semi-regulated digital sectors keep investing in infrastructure rather than point solutions. The practical question is not whether activity moves. It is whether the business can keep control of settlement, reconciliation, and recipient payouts when it does.

For operators in iGaming and adjacent digital industries, that usually means planning for more than card acceptance alone. It means thinking about how to collect funds, how to route them into the right balance, how to convert between crypto and fiat when needed, and how to pay partners or recipients without creating avoidable manual work. Radom’s platform is designed for businesses that need those building blocks in one place, rather than stitching together separate tools for checkout, invoicing, conversion, and payouts.

The policy signal in the H2 report is clear. Higher tax pressure can reshape where online gambling activity sits. The operational signal is just as clear. When market structure shifts, the payment layer has to be able to move with it.