Ismail Vali is the President of GCI and the inventor, founder and former CEO of Yield Sec™, a leading technical intelligence platform for online marketplaces.
Ismail Vali is the President of GCI and the inventor, founder and former CEO of Yield Sec™, a leading technical intelligence platform for online marketplaces.
About
Ismail Vali is the President of Gaming Compliance International (GCI) and the inventor, founder and former CEO of Yield Sec™. He leads a global team across the operations of a technical intelligence platform that monitors, polices, enforces, and optimizes the marketplace across online gaming, streaming, crypto and consumer goods.
From a career spanning online gaming, product development, marketing, and online operations, including multiple C-level roles across the betting and gaming industry, and with a BA and MA in Law from Brasenose College, Oxford University, Ismail created a unique solution to a long-standing online industry problem: the impact of crime on commerce, communities, and consumers.
In his role as President, he drives GCI’s AI-powered compliance and regulatory technology platform to deliver marketplace transparency, enhanced data capture, actionable intelligence, and transaction monitoring that helps governments, regulators, tribal nations, and operators move their online gaming marketplaces from chaos to control.
Yield Sec with Hedgeye - December 2025
Yield Sec with Hedgeye - August 2025
Kveikur interview (Short).
Kveikur interview.
Sports betting farms. Watch the Search Party episode on illegal gambling and amateur sports, featuring Yield Sec data and views from our CEO.
Yield Sec on Hedgeye TV: Where is All the Gold in America's Online Gambling Gold Rush?
Yield Sec on Hedgeye TV: Know Your Marketplace
Yield Sec on Hedgeye TV: Make The Money You Should
Ismail Vali on what lets illegal operators thrive
ICE Barcelona 2025
In the News
Drake Lawsuit Exposes $38 Billion Illegal Crypto Casino Market
Dirty game: The explosion of illegal bets threatens the regulated betting market
‘It’s shattered our family’: how illicit offshore bookies exploit struggling gamblers who are trying to quit
Yield Sec acquired by Gaming Compliance International (GCI)
Inside Yield Sec’s war on illegal gambling
Icelanders spend 36 billion Icelandic króna (ISK) on illegal betting sites
March Madness Gambling: Betting Wagers on Sportsbooks and Illegal Black Market NCAA
BBC Fear Losing Paris Olympics Viewers to Illegal Streaming
1xBet Hosts Thousands of Amateur Sports Streams on Its Website
Shady Bets: Blacklisted Gambling Sites Connected to Award-Winning European Firm
The Hidden Cost of Illegal Gambling: A Financial Times Investigation
How Crypto Boosts America's $67 Billion Shadow Gambling Industry
Illegal Casinos, Sports Books Reap Most Online U.S. Gaming Revenue
GCI
GCI is the proven leader in regulatory gaming compliance technology and consultancy, providing a single-source, AI-powered platform for player protection, advertising and media content monitoring, black-market mitigation, automated data capture, revenue auditing, and operator compliance reporting. GCI’s focus is on enhancing marketplace transparency and revenue optimization for regulators and licensed operators while establishing a robust compliance framework that protects jurisdictions, audiences, and the broader gaming ecosystem.
Yield Sec
Yield Sec™, short for yield security, is a technical intelligence platform monitoring all audience activity across gambling, streaming, crypto and consumer goods to see the total online marketplace - both legal and illegal. Yield Sec delivers analysis, actions and recommendations to ensure online stakeholders make the money they should - and are not stolen from by crime.