UK regulator restates its position on prediction markets
The Gambling Commission has repeated that event contracts offered to UK consumers need a licence.
PredictionSites Editorial · 5 September 2026
The Gambling Commission has issued another reminder that platforms offering event contracts to UK consumers fall inside the licensing regime unless they are authorised as financial products.
In practice this is why most crypto-native prediction markets block UK access, and why UK traders overwhelmingly use licensed betting exchanges instead.
Our UK country guide lists the platforms we have confirmed as available, plus those that are close-only or fully restricted.
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