Gigadat will offer advisory and compliance guidance to social gaming and sweepstakes operators entering Canada, VP of Operations Quinn Zapach said at a press conference at SBC Summit 2026.
Zapach said the payment provider would draw on its Interac relationships and its know-your-customer (KYC) experience to help new entrants meet Canadian regulatory obligations. He said social and sweepstakes products were becoming more common in Canada and that operators arriving from outside the country often did not understand its requirements.
“We are uniquely poised and in a position to be able to add some infrastructure, some guidance, some experience, as we have been in the iGaming space since 2013,” Zapach said.
Gigadat processes Interac payments for regulated iGaming operators in Canada. Zapach described Interac as “the primary rail that connects all banks in the Canadian market space” and said that connection would let Gigadat return more verification data and speed up checks compared with separate third-party KYC tools.
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Zapach linked the offering to data sovereignty, saying it mattered to “keep a Canadian solution in a Canadian place for Canadians.”
Zapach declined to advise operators on whether the sweepstakes model itself was sound. Asked whether he would recommend the model given regulatory pressure elsewhere, he said Gigadat was a payment service provider, not an operational adviser.
“I don’t think I would sit here and act as an advisor, as I’m not an expert in the field of the operations of such things,” Zapach said.
US sweepstakes operators have come under tightening regulation, with several states acting against the model in 2025. Zapach said he could not speak to the reasons for the US pullback and pointed to the complexity of state-by-state iGaming rules.
He said Canadian requirements would become “part and parcel very quickly” of any sweepstakes or social gaming operation entering the market.
