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Svetlana Morozova

Senior iGaming Analyst specializing in sweepstakes regulatory compliance and RNG certification across North American jurisdictions.

Articles Published per Quarter

Professional Credentials

Data Table 1
CredentialInstitutionYear
M.Sc. Applied MathematicsUniversity of Toronto2016
CAMS (Certified AML Specialist)ACAMS2019
Certified Gaming ProfessionalInternational Gaming Institute2020
GLI Standards ReviewerGaming Laboratories International2022
Responsible Gaming Council FellowRGC Canada2024

Recent Published Analysis

Data Table 2
YearPieceOutlet
2026RTP Variance in Sweepstakes SlotsiGaming Business North America
2025FINTRAC Reporting Thresholds ExplainedCompliance Quarterly Canada
2025The Case Against SMS 2FASweeps Industry Watch
2024Provincial Age-Gate ComparisonResponsible Gaming Council Journal
2024A Practical Guide to Sweeps Coin KYCCanadian Gaming News

About Svetlana Morozova

Svetlana Morozova has spent nearly a decade at the intersection of applied mathematics and gambling regulation, first inside the Ontario iGaming Commission's statistics unit and more recently as an independent analyst covering the Canadian sweepstakes sector. Her graduate work at the University of Toronto focused on Monte Carlo estimation of long-run return-to-player under mixed-volatility conditions, and that quantitative background continues to shape the analysis published under her byline on this site.

Her professional credentials sit at the top of this page in the certifications table. The combination of a CAMS designation, a Certified Gaming Professional status and an active role as a GLI Standards Reviewer is unusual in the sweepstakes-review corner of the industry, and it is the reason her work is regularly cited in Responsible Gaming Council briefings and provincial regulator consultations. Every article published under her name is fact-checked against the current audit certificates on file with the operator.

The publishing cadence chart above shows the trajectory of the last two years. Volume has increased steadily as the sweepstakes sector has matured, and the average piece length has increased in parallel, from roughly nine hundred words in 2024 to fifteen hundred and above through 2026. Editorial standards on this site follow the guidelines published by the Canadian Association of Journalists, and every review notes the affiliate relationship where one exists so that readers can weigh the analysis in full context.