HS InfoAbout HS Info
Who runs HS Info
HS Info is an independent consumer-information website focused on the payments side of non-UKGC-licensed online gambling as experienced by UK consumers. We are a small editorial team writing about the mechanics of moving money into and out of offshore-licensed casinos, with a particular emphasis on the frictions British players actually meet: bank blocks, KYC delays, chargeback questions, currency conversion, and dispute recourse. The site does not operate any gambling service, does not accept advertising revenue from operators, and does not receive affiliate commissions.
The site launched in 2024 in response to a spike in UK search interest around the phrase “non gamstop casinos”. Our editorial view is that consumers searching this phrase deserve better than affiliate-driven top-ten lists that gloss over the real risks. We aim to be the sober, payments-focused alternative — useful whether you decide to deposit or, on reading the mechanics, decide not to.
Our editorial approach
We write in a plain UK-English register aimed at consumers rather than industry insiders. We are deliberately conservative about recommendations: the site does not name specific operators to use, and does not publish ranked lists. Where we point at licensing bodies, payment processors or scheme rules, we describe how they work rather than telling you what to do. Our starting assumption is that a UK reader arriving at these topics needs mechanics and warnings more than they need marketing.
Every piece of content is fact-checked against publicly available sources: card scheme rulebooks, UK financial regulations, HMRC guidance, offshore regulator publications, and reputable coverage in the mainstream press. We do not use AI-generated placeholder text and we do not repurpose content from sister sites. Every article is written by a named human author whose profile is on the site.
Oliver Bennett, Payments Journalist
Oliver Bennett is the site’s lead writer. He has been covering UK online-payment rails and their intersection with gambling regulation since 2018, with earlier work on retail-banking consumer protection under PSD2 and open-banking implementation. His interest in the non-GamStop segment comes from a payments-mechanics angle, not from a promotional one. He has no commercial relationships with online gambling operators.
Oliver studied economics at a UK university and holds professional qualifications relevant to payments compliance. Outside HS Info he writes on adjacent topics for trade publications. He can be reached through the contact page.
What HS Info does not do
We do not operate a gambling service. We do not accept deposits or process wagers. We do not have an affiliate relationship with any operator. We do not publish ranked lists of “best” casinos. We do not link to gambling-help websites (though we mention them by name and phone number, because the risk of a fake help link is too high to accept). We do not offer legal, tax or financial advice; where the material touches on those areas we describe general context and refer readers to qualified professionals.
We also do not offer any product or service that would allow someone to circumvent a GamStop self-exclusion. GamStop is a legitimate consumer-protection tool and our editorial position is that self-exclusion should be respected. Our content on non-UKGC operators is written for people making an informed choice about the offshore market, not for people attempting to override a prior decision to protect themselves.
Corrections and updates
If you find a factual error on the site, please let us know via the contact page. Corrections are made promptly and, where material, the article is updated with a note at the bottom. We keep an internal log of all substantive edits.
Because the offshore payments market changes — new processors, new licensing frameworks, new card-scheme rules — our articles are reviewed on a rolling basis and dated with the most recent substantive update. Small typo corrections do not trigger a date change. Where an article is materially outdated, we either update it or, occasionally, mark it as archived and remove it from the navigation.