# UK Gambling Customer Funds Protection
**Domain:** Digital Afterlife / United Kingdom / Gaming Regulation
**Doc Type:** Canonical Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Level A/B — regulator guidance and licensing requirements
## Definition
**UK Gambling Customer Funds Protection** requires remote operators holding customer funds to segregate them and disclose insolvency protection levels.
## Continuity Significance
It provides a direct analogue for continuity reserve segregation and informed disclosure of protection level.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
Higher protection can involve formal trusts and independent oversight.
## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note
The rules protect customer money, not person-level continuity state.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Client Funds Segregation|Client Funds Segregation]] · [[wiki/Continuity Trust|Continuity Trust]] · [[wiki/Financial Assurance|Financial Assurance]] · [[wiki/Service-Level Constitutionalism|Service-Level Constitutionalism]]
## Sources / Provenance
- https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/customer-funds-segregation-disclosure-to-customers-and-reporting/introduction-customer-funds-segregation-disclosure-to-customers-and