Sarah Okafor

About Sarah Okafor

Sarah Okafor came to iGaming through fintech — specifically through the side of the industry that most players never think about until something goes wrong. She spent her early career working with payment processing infrastructure serving regulated online platforms, which gave her an unusually detailed understanding of what actually happens between a player clicking “withdraw” and money appearing in a bank account.

That background shapes everything she writes at canacasino.com. Where other reviewers treat banking as a checkbox, Sarah treats it as one of the most telling indicators of how an operator actually values its players. A casino that processes Interac e-Transfer withdrawals overnight and charges no conversion fees on CAD accounts is making a deliberate choice. So is one that routes players through three verification steps and takes five business days.

Based in Toronto, Sarah has followed Ontario’s regulated iGaming market closely since it opened in April 2022 — tracking how licensed operators have adapted their payment infrastructure to meet AGCO standards and how that compares to offshore alternatives still used by many Canadian players outside Ontario.

At canacasino.com, she covers payment method reviews, banking sections in casino assessments, KYC process evaluations, and security compliance. She documents her findings from real transactions, not operator-supplied information.