Technical compliance: What must the platform meet?

SI 2/2024 imposes two concrete technical-compliance obligations on Seychelles interactive gambling licensees. Rule 13(1) requires licensees to maintain player registration servers within Seychelles itself, a data-localisation obligation that precludes simply extending an existing offshore server estate to serve Seychelles-facing players. Rules 12 and 13 separately require independent testing of games and systems and prior FSA approval before launch, with FSA approval required again for any material system change thereafter. Together these obligations mean an operator must stand up Seychelles-based infrastructure for player registration specifically, and must build FSA sign-off into its technical change-management process on an ongoing basis rather than treating certification as a one-time pre-launch exercise. No GLI- or ISO-specific conformance standard distinct from the FSA's own testing and approval regime was identified in the record.