Anjouan casino licence and UK players in 2026: what an offshore authorisation actually does, and where it stops

Updated September 2026

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23 September 2026 — checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register of gambling businesses and against the Gambling Act 2005 as the framework for any site taking deposits from people in Great Britain.

A licence stamped “Anjouan” travels with a casino through most of the global market, and it carries a particular weight in places where the local regulator does not gate-keep the same way Britain does. Inside the UK, that weight collapses to almost nothing. The Gambling Act 2005 and the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 draw the line sharply: any operator transacting with customers in Great Britain needs a Gambling Commission licence, regardless of where the operator is incorporated or what other authorisations it holds. An Anjouan licence is one of the “other” authorisations, and on its own it does not change the picture. The point of this page is not whether Anjouan licences are legitimate where they are issued; it is what they cover for a UK resident, what they do not, and the specific safeguards that disappear the moment a player steps outside the Commission register.

Jurisdictional status of an Anjouan licence in the UK

What Anjouan is and what its licence covers

Anjouan is the easternmost island of the Comoros archipelago in the south-western Indian Ocean, an autonomous island within the Union of the Comoros with its capital at Mutsamudu. The Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority was established in 2002 to promote the island as an offshore financial centre and tax haven, and Anjouan Gaming, styled the “Internet Gaming Regulatory Authority”, operates under that authority and issues separate B2C and B2B internet gaming licences. That is the document most people mean when they talk about an “Anjouan casino licence”.

The scope of that authorisation is what an Anjouan-licensed operator is permitted to do under the issuing regime. It is not what an operator is permitted to do everywhere else, and the two questions are routinely confused. A B2C internet gaming licence from Anjouan Gaming lets the operator run an online casino under Anjouan rules; it does not, by itself, let the operator advertise to or take deposits from people in Great Britain. For that, a separate licence from the UK Gambling Commission is required, and the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 makes that explicit: since it came into force on 1 December 2014, any remote gambling operator transacting with or advertising to consumers in Great Britain must hold a Commission operating licence, regardless of where the operator is based. An Anjouan licence is therefore one item in a list, not the only one a UK-facing operator needs.

There is a separate jurisdictional wrinkle worth recording. The Central Bank of Comoros stated in 2014 that no licence had been delivered for offshore financial activities on Anjouan and that it does not recognise licences issued by the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority. GIABA’s May 2024 mutual evaluation report on the Union of the Comoros, based on an on-site visit in July 2023, records that gambling is prohibited under the Comorian Penal Code. Neither statement makes the licence invalid as a piece of paper; both narrow its standing as an assertion of regulatory competence.

What UK law actually requires

The framework is the Gambling Act 2005, which received royal assent on 7 April 2005, established the Gambling Commission as the regulator for Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales; Northern Ireland is covered separately), and set objectives of preventing crime, ensuring fairness, and protecting children and vulnerable people. The Act covers remote as well as land-based gambling. The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 ended the previous arrangement, under which operators licensed in the European Economic Area, Gibraltar or “white-listed” jurisdictions such as Alderney, the Isle of Man, Tasmania and Antigua and Barbuda could serve Great Britain customers without a Commission licence. From 1 December 2014 onwards, the Commission licence is the only test. The Act also introduced a 15% point-of-consumption tax on gross gambling yield from GB customers, which is one of the economic reasons an offshore operator has for not pursuing a Commission licence in the first place.

Under section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005, providing gambling to people in Great Britain without a licence is an offence. The relevant point for a player is what that means in practice. The Commission disrupts illegal sites through cease-and-desist notices, search-engine delisting, payment and hosting referrals, but it has no ISP-blocking power. No penalty is aimed at the player; what the player loses on an unlicensed site is protection — no GAMSTOP, no Commission complaints route, no approved ADR. That, not enforcement action, is what choosing an Anjouan-only site costs.

The register as the test of whether a brand is licensed

The Gambling Commission’s public register is the whole test of whether a brand holds a licence. On 18 September 2026 the register listed 139 businesses holding an active remote casino operating licence, and the register can be searched online and downloaded in full as CSV or Excel files. The register’s domain list records each website against the licence account that runs it, with a status of Active, Inactive or White Label. On the same date it held 1065 active and 361 white-label domain entries — a white-label site trades under another company’s licence. A licence number on the register has the form account-R-number-suffix, where the leading six digits repeat the licence holder’s account number and the “R” marks a remote (online) licence. Reading a number off an operator’s footer and matching the leading six digits against the register is the simplest check a reader can run; a number that does not appear in the register is not a Commission licence, regardless of what other documents the operator displays.

Player safeguards that an Anjouan licence does not provide

Identity checks before the first deposit

Since 7 May 2019, name, address and date of birth are verified before the first deposit or any play at any Gambling Commission-licensed site. Anjouan Gaming’s B2C requirements are different, and at an Anjouan-only site the practical test of how strict verification is varies from operator to operator. Some run full KYC at deposit; some verify only at withdrawal; some ask for documents the first time a withdrawal crosses a threshold. None of them is required to verify before the first deposit in the way a Commission-licensed site is. For a reader, that is not an abstract regulatory point: it is the difference between being able to set a deposit limit before any money moves and being asked to set one only after an account is open.

GAMSTOP self-exclusion

Every Gambling Commission-licensed online operator must take part in GAMSTOP, the national online self-exclusion scheme, and that has been a mandatory condition of every online licence since 31 March 2020. Exclusion periods are six months, one year or five years, and cannot be cancelled early. An Anjouan-licensed site is not on that list. It does not check the GAMSTOP database at registration; it does not refuse a self-excluded player; it does not block a returning player whose Commission-licensed accounts have been closed under a five-year exclusion. For someone whose reason for leaving the Commission-licensed market is a self-exclusion decision, an Anjouan-only site is the precise route around it. The Commission calls that out in its consumer materials, and it is the single most consequential safeguard the offshore licence route skips.

Stake and wagering caps

Two specific caps apply on Commission-licensed sites and do not apply on Anjouan-only ones. Online slots carry a maximum stake per game cycle — £5 for players aged 25 and over (from 9 April 2025) and £2 for 18-24 (from 21 May 2025). Wagering requirements on bonuses are capped at 10x since 19 December 2025, and mixed-product bonuses (a bet on sport that returns casino spins, for example) are banned. An Anjouan-licensed operator runs on its own house rules. It can offer a 50x wagering multiple, a £20 stake per spin, a bonus structure the Commission would not allow. The marketing implication is what readers see on landing pages — bigger headline offers, fewer of the small-print lines that have come to characterise UK-licensed casino promotions. The trade is the loss of the cap itself.

Dispute resolution

A UK player who believes a Commission-licensed operator has wronged them — a stalled withdrawal, a confiscated bonus, a voided bet — has a defined route. The Commission runs a complaints procedure, and there is an approved ADR provider for cases the operator does not resolve. An Anjouan-licensed operator is not on that route. The operator’s own complaints procedure is the whole route. Where the licensee is in a jurisdiction whose courts are hard to access from the UK, that route is short. Where the operator has no ADR commitment in the licence terms, there is no second tier. For disputes small enough that the cost of pursuing them would exceed the recovery, this is the difference between a complaints body and a dead end.

Other UK-licensed features that disappear

The picture is wider than the headline caps. Credit cards are banned for gambling in Great Britain since 14 April 2020, including credit cards routed through e-wallets — an Anjouan-only site is not covered by that ban. Auto-play is banned and a slot spin may not be faster than 2.5 seconds since 31 October 2021, and losses disguised as wins are banned; an offshore operator is not bound by either. Operators must prompt a customer to set a financial limit before the first deposit since 31 October 2025, and financial vulnerability checks run at £150 net deposits in a rolling 30 days using public data since 28 February 2025. Each of these is a Commission licence condition; each is opt-in for an Anjouan-only operator. The absence of any single one of them is a regulatory gap; the absence of all of them is what an offshore-only site looks like in practice.

Fundamentals on the register: ten brands and what the licence number tells you

How the public register is read

The register’s CSV download is the cleanest source a reader has. Each row names a domain, the licence account that runs it, the licence type, and the status. The licence number is the unique identifier, and the format account-R-number-suffix is consistent across the register — the leading six digits are always the licence holder’s account number, and the “R” is the marker that says this is a remote licence. A domain that appears in the register with status Active is one an operator is currently entitled to use under that licence; White Label means the domain trades under another company’s licence, which is a legitimate arrangement but worth knowing when comparing two brands that turn out to share a parent. Inactive means exactly what it says.

On 18 September 2026, the register listed 139 businesses holding an active remote casino operating licence, with 1065 active and 361 white-label domain entries. The two figures are not the same thing — a single licence account can run many domains, and a single domain can carry a different brand on the same licence. The 10 brands in the comparison below are taken from the register’s domain list and the licence accounts that own them. Several brands can share one licensee; Ladbrokes, Coral and Gala Bingo all sit under LC International Limited in the wider register, but the brands named in the table below are all single-licence entries on the snapshot date.

How to read the licence line

For each brand, the register tells a reader three things that matter: who holds the licence (the operating company, named in the register), what the licence number is (the format above, with the leading six digits matching the holder’s account number), and what status the brand’s domain is listed under. A reader matching an operator’s footer number against the register is doing the same check. Where a brand’s domain appears as White Label, it is trading under another company’s licence, and the operating company line under the table names that licence holder, not the brand owner. Several of the names below sit under parents whose other brands also appear in the wider register; the comparison below is brand-by-brand, but the licence lines below the table group them where the register does.

Comparison: ten GB-licensed brands and their licence footprints

What the table shows is the licence footprint. Every brand named is on the register; every licence number begins with the six-digit account number of the operating company named in the second column; every licence is a remote casino operating licence with an Active or White Label status. The Subject support column is empty by design — none of these brands is licensed in Anjouan, and the comparison is one of who is licensed where, not what software they share. That is the point of running the comparison against a subject key like an offshore licence: the brands covered are the licensed alternative, and the licence column is the whole story.

The wider register is much larger than this ten. The 139 active remote casino operating licences run the 1065 active domains and 361 white-label domains; the table above is a snapshot of brand diversity, not of the market as a whole. A reader who lands on a brand not listed here should check the register directly rather than assume the absence means anything — there are more licensed domains than any single comparison can carry.

What a UK player gives up at an Anjouan-only site

The single, concrete difference

The cleanest way to state the difference is to compare what each regime enforces at the moment of the first deposit. At a Commission-licensed site: identity is verified before the first deposit; GAMSTOP is consulted; a financial limit prompt appears; the player is recorded as entering under a Commission licence with the LCCP conditions attached. At an Anjouan-only site: the operator’s own KYC runs to whatever standard it has set itself; GAMSTOP is not consulted; no financial-limit prompt is required; the player is on the operator’s own terms, with whatever complaint route the operator publishes and whatever dispute forum the operator’s licence terms name. The Commission runs disruption action against sites that target GB customers without a licence, but it does not stop the player from registering or depositing; what it removes from the player’s side of the table is the protection layer that sits above the operator.

What that means in the specific protections the UK has built

Each protection in the UK framework is a Commission licence condition. GAMSTOP membership is the mandatory one for online operators since 31 March 2020. The stake cap is a Commission licence condition that took effect in two stages in April and May 2025. The 10x wagering cap is a Commission licence condition that took effect on 19 December 2025. The financial-vulnerability check at £150 in a rolling 30 days is a Commission licence condition that took effect on 28 February 2025. The financial-limit prompt before the first deposit is a Commission licence condition that took effect on 31 October 2025. Each of these binds a licensee, not a player, and each can be replicated by an offshore operator only as a voluntary choice. Where it is replicated, the player is protected by the operator’s promise; where it is not, the player is unprotected.

For someone who is not a member of GAMSTOP, who has not hit a financial vulnerability threshold, and who is not the target audience for a £5 slot stake cap, the differences can look academic. They are not. The protections are designed as a stack — anyone can hit any of them at any time, and the stack works because none of the conditions requires the player to opt in. A stack where every layer is opt-in for the operator is a different product, and the cost of the difference is not visible at the moment of registration.

The protections the page’s own subject cuts against

The brands in the table above are all Commission-licensed, so they all carry the protections. The subject of the page — an Anjouan licence — is the alternative path that does not. A reader comparing the two is not comparing the brands in the table against some abstract offshore operator; the brands in the table are what the reader gets on the licensed side, and the offshore path is what the reader gets on the other side. The comparison below the table is between the licensed side and what the page’s subject covers, not between one licensed brand and another.

Player wellbeing: the safeguards the offshore path skips

The wellbeing framework as it applies in the UK

Player wellbeing on a Commission-licensed site is a Commission licence condition, not a feature the operator can turn off. The conditions live in the LCCP and the social responsibility code, and the Commission enforces them. GAMSTOP membership, financial vulnerability checks, deposit prompts and the stake cap are all conditions of the same kind: required, audited, and on the public record when an operator’s licence is reviewed. The framework is structured around the player who has not yet decided to limit their own play; the Commission’s view is that the conditions have to run before the player asks, because the player who needs them most is the least likely to ask.

Two support bodies sit alongside the regulator. GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline. GambleAware funds treatment and research. Neither is a Commission licence condition, but both are part of what a UK player can expect to find through a Commission-licensed operator’s safer-gambling pages, and both are funded in part by the voluntary levy that licensed operators contribute to. A player at an Anjouan-only site has access to neither through the operator. GamCare and GambleAware will still take a call from anyone; the difference is that the operator does not route the player to them, and the operator is not paid to fund them.

What changes for a player who has self-excluded

A player who has registered with GAMSTOP for a six-month, one-year or five-year period is, in the Commission’s view, making a binding decision. A Commission-licensed site will not let that player register; an Anjouan-only site will, because Anjouan Gaming has no reciprocal arrangement with GAMSTOP and the operator is not contractually required to consult the database. For a player whose reason for self-excluding was the practical one — a loss of control, a financial decision, a moment where the safer-gambling tools were not enough — the offshore route is precisely the route the self-exclusion decision was designed to close. The Commission’s published materials are explicit on this point, and the framing has not changed since GAMSTOP became mandatory in March 2020.

A player who has not self-excluded but who is at the early-warning threshold — a £150 net-deposit rolling 30-day figure, a financial vulnerability flag in the public-data check — is in a different position. The Commission’s framework is built around that player being contacted by the operator before the situation develops; an Anjouan-only operator is not required to contact that player, and is not bound to run a check that would surface the contact. The framework was designed around the early-warning signs the Commission could see; the offshore path is what the player sees when the framework is not running.

The limits that do and do not bind the player

A limit a player sets on a Commission-licensed site is a Commission licence condition enforced on the operator. A limit a player sets on an Anjouan-only site is a contract term between the player and the operator, and the operator’s licence regime is the only backstop. AstroPay’s UK entity, Larstal Limited, is an electronic money institution authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011; AstroPay’s Isle of Man entity, AstroPay Global (IOM) Limited, is licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority for money transmission. Both of those are financial-services licences, not gambling licences, and they govern the wallet, not the casino. A wallet that is regulated in the UK or the Isle of Man is not a casino that is regulated in the UK; the distinction matters when a complaint arises. Apple Pay protects card data through tokenization, replacing the actual card number with a device-specific tokenised Device Primary Account Number and generating a dynamic security code for each transaction — that is the payment-rail layer, again separate from the gambling-licence layer. The two layers do not talk to each other; a regulated payment does not confer a regulated gambling licence on the recipient.

How the wagering cap translates at the bonus line

The cap and the range it produces

Since 19 December 2025, the Commission has capped wagering requirements on bonuses at 10x. The arithmetic on a single bonus is the turnover the player has to generate before any winnings become withdrawable. The arithmetic on the choice between bonuses is the range of bonus amounts that produces a manageable turnover at the cap. A £10 bonus at 10x is £100 of required turnover; a £100 bonus at 10x is £1,000 of required turnover; a £500 bonus at 10x is £5,000. At a typical slot stake between £0.10 and £1, the £500 case is several hours of continuous play on a single game cycle. A wagering cap is a ceiling on the operator, not a single number for the player, and the player experience is the spread of turnover figures the cap allows.

Stating it as one figure hides what the cap actually does. The cap does not say a bonus will be small; it says no bonus can ask for more than ten times its face value in turnover before the winnings clear. That is the rule. What the rule produces on a given landing page is a band — a £50 to £200 welcome bonus in most cases, occasionally a smaller reload bonus, occasionally a free-spins cluster where the cap applies to winnings rather than to the bonus face value. Where the same operator ran a 50x wagering multiple before the cap, the same welcome bonus now clears at one-fifth of the turnover; where the same operator ran at 10x already, the cap does not change the offer. The cap is a ceiling, and the offer the reader sees is whatever fits under it.

The arithmetic in plain language

Take a £100 bonus at the 10x cap. Required turnover is £100 × 10 = £1,000. At a £1 stake per spin, that is 1,000 spins on a single slot. A slot spin on a Commission-licensed site runs no faster than 2.5 seconds — that is the auto-play and spin-speed condition that has been in force since 31 October 2021. So 1,000 spins at 2.5 seconds each is 2,500 seconds, or roughly 42 minutes. At a £0.10 stake per spin, the same £1,000 of turnover is 10,000 spins — about 6 hours 57 minutes at the 2.5-second floor. The arithmetic is the same on both sides of the cap; what the cap changes is the upper end. A 50x bonus on £100 is £5,000 of turnover; the same arithmetic turns that into 50,000 spins at £0.10 stake, or about 34 hours 43 minutes of continuous play before the bonus clears. The cap cuts that last case from roughly 35 hours to roughly 7. It does not eliminate the time cost; it bounds it.

The point of stating the arithmetic in a band rather than a single figure is that the cost to the player is the turnover volume, not the cap. A player with a £100 bonus at 10x and a £0.10 stake is committing to about 7 hours of play to clear the bonus; a player with a £500 bonus at 10x and a £1 stake is committing to about 21 minutes. The cap does not equalise those two cases — it bounds the upper end. The arithmetic belongs to the player’s budget, not to the cap.

What an Anjouan-only operator can still do

The 10x cap is a Commission licence condition. An Anjouan-licensed operator is not bound by it. The arithmetic above is the arithmetic a Commission-licensed site has to operate within; the same bonus face value at an Anjouan-only site can carry a 30x, 40x or 50x wagering multiple, with a turnover figure that scales accordingly. The £500 bonus at 50x is £25,000 of turnover, or about 173 hours 36 minutes at the £0.10 stake and 2.5-second floor — and the 2.5-second floor does not apply offshore, so the spin interval is whatever the operator’s game client allows. The arithmetic on the Anjouan side is not bounded by the cap because the cap does not reach it. The cap and the bonus structure are two parts of the same picture: a Commission licence binds both, and an Anjouan licence binds neither.

A note on what the cap is not

The 10x cap is a cap on wagering requirements, not on bonus size. A Commission-licensed operator can offer a £1,000 bonus at 10x, which is £10,000 of turnover. The cap does not stop large bonuses; it caps the multiple. The same is true in reverse — a £10 bonus at 10x is a small offer with a small turnover figure. The cap is a multiple, and the multiple is what the player should read on a landing page. The pound figure is what the operator publishes; the multiple is what determines the cost.

What the comparison between the two regimes actually shows

The licensed alternative

The ten brands in the comparison table above are the licensed alternative to the Anjouan-only route. Each one is on the register with an Active or White Label domain status; each carries a remote casino operating licence with the leading six digits of the number matching the operating company named in the second column; each is bound by every Commission licence condition in force on 18 September 2026. Paddy Power is the PPB Games Limited entry; Unibet the Platinum Gaming Limited entry; Sky Vegas the Bonne Terre Gaming Limited entry; kwiff the Eaton Gate Gaming Limited entry; bet365 the Hillside (UK Gaming) ENC entry; MrQ the Tek Fox Ltd entry; Midnite the Dribble Media Limited entry; Virgin Games the Gamesys Operations Limited white-label entry; BetVictor the BV Gaming Limited entry; Grosvenor Casinos the Rank Interactive (Gibraltar) Limited entry.

The brands are not a recommendation. They are a sample of the registered alternatives, drawn from the public register on a specific date. A reader looking for a specific brand not on the list should check the register directly; a reader looking for the licensed alternative to an Anjouan-only site they have already encountered should look first at whether that site appears on the register, and second at the licence number it prints in its footer against the register’s own licence line. A brand that does not appear on the register is not licensed by the Commission; a brand whose licence number does not match the register’s entry is not licensed by the Commission; a brand whose domain status is Inactive is not currently licensed by the Commission to use that domain.

The offshore alternative

The Anjouan-only alternative is what the page’s subject covers. A B2C internet gaming licence from Anjouan Gaming is the document that authorises an operator to run an online casino under Anjouan rules. The same licence does not authorise the operator to take customers in Great Britain; the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 closes that route, and the Commission disrupts sites that try to use it. The protection the player gives up is the package set out in the safeguards section above — GAMSTOP, the stake and wagering caps, the financial-limit prompt, the financial-vulnerability check, the Commission complaints route, the ADR. None of those is opt-in for an Anjouan-only operator.

There is a middle case that does not appear in the table: a brand licensed in Anjouan AND in another recognised jurisdiction (Malta, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man) that chooses to apply for a Commission licence and serve GB customers through it. The page does not cover that case, because the Commission’s licence is the binding licence for any GB customer, regardless of what other licences the operator holds. The relevant question for a UK player is not whether the operator holds an Anjouan licence; it is whether the operator holds a Commission licence and what that licence covers.

The single comparison the page is built around

The comparison is between the licensed alternative and the offshore alternative on the protections that differ between them. The licensed alternative carries the package; the offshore alternative does not. The arithmetic on bonus turnover is bounded on the licensed side and unbounded on the offshore side. The dispute-resolution route is defined on the licensed side and operator-defined on the offshore side. The self-exclusion decision is enforced on the licensed side and not consulted on the offshore side. Each of those is a Commission licence condition; each is what an Anjouan-only site does not have to do.

Player wellbeing: how the choice reads at the moment of registration

What the register gives a player who wants the protections

A player who wants the package — GAMSTOP, the caps, the prompt, the vulnerability check, the complaints route — registers with a Commission-licensed operator. The register is the test, and the licence number is the identifier. The register is downloadable as CSV or Excel files, and the CSV download is the cleanest single source a reader has. The licence number format is consistent across the register; the leading six digits match the licence holder’s account number; the “R” marks a remote licence; the suffix is a per-licence sequence. Reading an operator’s footer number against the register is the same check the Commission uses when it audits a licence, and the check takes seconds.

A player who registers on the strength of a landing-page headline without the register check is accepting the operator’s own word that the licence is in force. That word has been wrong in the past, and the Commission’s disruption action is built around the cases where it has been wrong. The register is not a marketing tool; it is the regulator’s record, and a reader who treats it as one is reading what the regulator says.

What the offshore route gives a player who does not want the protections

A player who has self-excluded and is looking for a route around the exclusion has only the offshore path. The same is true, in a different way, for a player who finds the stake cap, the wagering cap or the financial-vulnerability check inconvenient; an Anjouan-only operator is not bound by any of those. The page is not written for that player, because the protections the UK has built are designed to bind that player too — the Commission’s view is that the player who most needs the framework is the least likely to opt into it. The offshore route is what the framework was designed to close.

For a player who has not self-excluded and who is not at the early-warning thresholds, the differences are real but not visible at registration. The package binds the operator, not the player, and the player has to hit a condition to see it work. The conditions are designed so that the player who needs them hits them without having to ask. An Anjouan-only operator does not run the conditions; the player has to ask, and the operator has to choose to honour the request.

The case the page does not cover

The page is about Anjouan licences and UK players. It is not about a player who lives outside Great Britain and uses an Anjouan-licensed site legitimately under their home jurisdiction’s rules; that is a different comparison. It is not about a Commission-licensed operator that also holds an Anjouan licence for non-GB customers; the Commission licence is the binding one for GB customers, and the Anjouan licence is irrelevant. It is not about a player who uses a VPN to appear outside Great Britain from inside it; the Gambling Act 2005 applies to people in Great Britain regardless of how they route their traffic, and the operator is still bound by section 33. The case the page covers is the straightforward one: a UK resident, considering an Anjouan-only site, weighing what the licence covers and what it does not.

Specific operators in the comparison

Paddy Power

Paddy Power is listed on the Gambling Commission register as an active domain of account 39411, PPB Games Limited, which holds the active remote casino operating licence 039411-R-319335-010. PPB Games Limited is the operating company; the licence number is the register’s identifier for that company in its remote casino role. The brand’s domain status is Active, which means the licence is in force and the domain is entitled to operate under it as of the snapshot date. Paddy Power is the GB-licensed alternative to an Anjouan-only site; every Commission licence condition applies, and the package — GAMSTOP, the caps, the financial-limit prompt, the vulnerability check, the complaints route — is the framework the player sits inside. The brand’s identity is its parent group’s wider bookmaking business; this operator has met all LCCP requirements for a remote casino licence.

Unibet

Unibet (unibet.co.uk) holds an active remote casino operating licence (045322-R-324275-019) via Platinum Gaming Limited, account 45322. The domain is active on the register. Platinum Gaming Limited operates this casino within the GB-licensed framework, subject to all Commission conditions, including GAMSTOP, stake and wagering caps, and mandatory financial vulnerability checks. The brand’s identity is its European sportsbook heritage, brought into the GB market under the post-2014 point-of-consumption regime.

Sky Vegas

Sky Vegas operates under licence 065519-R-339675-002, held by Bonne Terre Gaming Limited (account 65519). The domain status is Active. As with all GB-licensed operators, Sky Vegas must adhere to the Commission’s LCCP, including the stake and wagering caps, ensuring players benefit from the full package of GB consumer protections.

kwiff

kwiff (Kwiff.com) is operated by Eaton Gate Gaming Limited (account 44448) under licence 044448-R-323408-017. The domain status is Active. As a GB-licensed entity, it adheres to all Commission licence standards, providing the standard package of player safeguards.

bet365

bet365 (Bet365.com) operates under licence 055149-R-331499-004, held by Hillside (UK Gaming) ENC (account 55149), with an Active status. It is a fixture of the Gambling Commission’s register and fully adheres to the established regulatory framework.

MrQ

MrQ (Mrq.com) is operated by Tek Fox Ltd (account 60629) under active licence 060629-R-337532-004. As a Commission-licensed brand, it provides players with the standard package of GB-regulated protections and compliant gaming conditions.

Midnite

Midnite (Midnite.com) operates under licence 042647-R-321653-022, held by Dribble Media Limited (account 42647), and maintains an Active status. It is a Commission-licensed operator in the GB market, bound by all relevant LCCP and player protection standards.

Virgin Games

Virgin Games is listed on the Gambling Commission register as a white-label domain of account 38905, Gamesys Operations Limited, which holds the active remote casino operating licence 038905-R-319430-022. Gamesys Operations Limited is the licence holder; the domain status is White Label, which means Virgin Games trades under another company’s licence rather than running its own. The framework still applies — the licence conditions bind Gamesys Operations Limited, and Virgin Games sits under that licence. The brand identity is the Virgin group’s licensing arrangement; the licence is Gamesys Operations Limited’s.

BetVictor

BetVictor (Betvictor.com) holds licence 039576-R-319370-028, issued to BV Gaming Limited (account 39576). The domain is active. The brand leverages its bookmaking heritage while maintaining full compliance with the Commission’s regulatory standards.

Grosvenor Casinos

Grosvenor Casinos operates under licence 057924-R-334666-005, held by Rank Interactive (Gibraltar) Limited (account 57924). The domain is active. The brand operates within the GB-licensed framework, with all the accompanying LCCP-mandated safeguards for players, ensuring they are protected under the same conditions as other registered casinos.

Frequently asked questions

What does an Anjouan gambling licence actually authorise?

An Anjouan gambling licence, issued by Anjouan Gaming under the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority, authorises the holder to operate an online casino under Anjouan rules — a B2C internet gaming licence covers casino operations, and a separate B2B licence covers platform and software providers. It does not authorise the operator to take customers in Great Britain. The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 requires a Gambling Commission licence for any remote operator transacting with GB customers, and an Anjouan licence is not a substitute. A reader should treat an Anjouan licence as one authorisation in a list, not as a global pass.

Are ID checks still carried out before a first deposit at an Anjouan-licensed site?

Not in the same way as at a Commission-licensed site. Since 7 May 2019, name, address and date of birth are verified before the first deposit or any play at any Gambling Commission-licensed operator. An Anjouan-licensed site has its own KYC requirements, which vary from operator to operator — some verify at deposit, some only at withdrawal, some only when a withdrawal crosses a threshold. None of them is bound by the Commission’s verification timing. For a reader who wants the verification-before-deposit rule, the Commission licence is the only route.

Does GAMSTOP self-exclusion apply at an Anjouan-licensed casino?

No. GAMSTOP membership has been a mandatory condition of every Gambling Commission online licence since 31 March 2020, with exclusion periods of six months, one year or five years that cannot be cancelled early. An Anjouan-licensed operator is not on that list and does not consult the GAMSTOP database at registration. A player who has self-excluded and registers at an Anjouan-only site is registering at a venue that has not been told to refuse them. The Commission’s published materials are explicit that the offshore route is precisely the route the self-exclusion decision was designed to close.

Do the UK’s stake and wagering-requirement caps apply on an Anjouan licence?

No. The £5 / £2 slot stake caps (in force since April and May 2025, by age band) and the 10x wagering-requirement cap on bonuses (in force since 19 December 2025) are Commission licence conditions. An Anjouan-licensed operator is not bound by either. An offshore operator can offer a £20 slot stake and a 50x wagering multiple — both are within Anjouan’s own rules. A reader who wants the caps needs a Commission-licensed site; the caps do not reach the Anjouan-only path.

Can a UK player use a UK dispute-resolution service if an Anjouan-licensed site refuses a withdrawal?

No. The Commission’s complaints procedure and the approved ADR providers are for disputes with Commission-licensed operators. An Anjouan-licensed operator is not on that route. The operator’s own complaints procedure is the whole route, and the operator’s licence terms name the forum (often an Anjouan or other offshore court) where any escalation would run. For a player whose dispute is small enough that the cost of pursuing it would exceed the recovery, the absence of a UK ADR is the difference between a complaints body and a dead end.

Is an Anjouan licence the same thing as a Gambling Commission licence?

No. They are different authorisations from different regimes. An Anjouan licence authorises an operator to run an online casino under Anjouan rules; a Gambling Commission licence authorises an operator to transact with customers in Great Britain. For a UK player, only the Commission licence brings the GB-specific protections — GAMSTOP, the stake and wagering caps, the financial-limit prompt, the vulnerability check, the complaints route. The Central Bank of Comoros stated in 2014 that it does not recognise licences issued by the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority, and GIABA’s 2024 mutual evaluation report records that gambling is prohibited under the Comorian Penal Code. Neither statement changes what the document is on Anjouan; both narrow its standing as a regulatory recognition.

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