Who we are
Our Level Playing Field Group brings together senior representatives from some of the largest and most influential organisations across the UK gambling payments ecosystem, including major issuing banks, global card schemes, leading acquirers, and the UK's largest regulated operators.
Convened by PXP, the group gives equal standing to all constituencies. It is collaborative in design, built to develop shared understanding and practical solutions that benefit the ecosystem as a whole. When the organisations in this group align in direction, the ecosystem can move.
How we work
The group operates monthly working sessions with a structured agenda and project plan, and is supported by three in-person gatherings per year. In between monthly meetings, we work through jointly decided to-dos in smaller working groups to keep collaboration tight and progress steady. Decisions are reached by consensus with representation from each stakeholder group: issuers, schemes, acquirers, and operators.
Work is structured across six areas:
Governance and terms of reference
Building a unified industry position
Consumer impact
Payment classification and precedent
Education and internal advocacy
Data sharing
Timeline
August 2025
PXP commissions Piran Consulting Ltd to conduct 62 stakeholder interviews across regulated gambling merchants, card schemes, acquirers, issuing banks, and payments industry experts, and create the accompanying whitepaper.
January 2025
Time for a Level Playing Field for Regulated UK Gambling Payments is published — establishing the evidence base across fraud rates, chargeback data, authorisation rate analysis, and a review of international precedents including the US MCC 7801/7802 framework and Sweden's MID whitelisting model.
February 2026
PXP convenes the first Level Playing Field group, bringing together senior representatives from across the ecosystem to move from research to action.
May 2026
Formal stakeholder input gathered to define the group's purpose, scope, and ways of working. Terms of Reference drafted for member review.
Ongoing
Active work across all six workstreams — building consensus, mapping international precedents, developing the consumer impact framework, and engaging with schemes, banks, and regulators.