Anjouan casino licences in the UK: what the offshore stamp really covers

Updated September 2026

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The data behind this page is current as of 18 September 2026 and was checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register of gambling businesses.

An Anjouan licence looks, at first glance, like any other regulator’s mark on a casino’s footer. The seal is real; the body behind it is a small island authority inside the Union of the Comoros, and the certificate it sells does almost none of the things a UK player assumes a gambling licence does. It does not give a site the legal right to take a British customer’s deposit. It does not bring that customer inside GAMSTOP, the Commission’s complaints process or the wagering cap that landed in December 2025. The choice to play at an Anjouan-licensed site is, in plain terms, a choice to step outside the British safety net.

The data behind this page is current as of 23 September 2026 and was checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register of gambling businesses.

The jurisdiction behind the licence

Anjouan is the easternmost island of the Comoros archipelago, an autonomous territory with its capital at Mutsamudu, in the south-western Indian Ocean. The Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority was established in 2002 to promote the island as a financial centre and tax haven, and it now hosts the body that styles itself the “Internet Gaming Regulatory Authority” — Anjouan Gaming. That body issues separate B2C and B2B internet gaming licences, advertised as a low-friction entry point for online casino and sportsbook operators. The frame matters: the licence is sold as a commercial product, not a passport into regulated markets.

Two facts sharpen what that means. In 2014 the Central Bank of Comoros stated that no licence had been delivered for offshore financial activities on Anjouan and that it does not recognise licences issued by the Authority. And the inter-governmental action group GIABA, in its May 2024 mutual evaluation of the Comoros following an on-site visit in July 2023, recorded that gambling is prohibited under the Comorian Penal Code. An Anjouan gaming licence therefore travels with limited endorsement at home, and the only thing that gives it any standing abroad is the operator that holds it.

What a Gambling Commission licence actually buys

The British frame is older than the offshore one. The Gambling Act 2005 established the Gambling Commission as the regulator for Great Britain — England, Scotland and Wales, not Northern Ireland — with the published objectives of preventing crime, ensuring fairness and protecting children and vulnerable people. The system ran, until 2014, on a point-of-supply model: operators licensed in the European Economic Area, Gibraltar or a handful of “white-listed” jurisdictions could serve British customers without a UK licence of their own.

That changed on 1 December 2014, when the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 came into force. From that date, any remote operator transacting with or advertising to consumers in Great Britain must hold a Gambling Commission operating licence, regardless of where it is based, and pay 15% point-of-consumption tax on gross gambling yield from GB customers. Section 33 of the 2005 Act makes it a criminal offence to provide or advertise remote gambling facilities to people in Great Britain without one. A Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute; an Anjouan licence is not a substitute. The whole test of whether a brand holds one sits on the Commission’s public register, which can be searched online or downloaded as CSV.

On 18 September 2026 the register listed 139 businesses holding an active remote casino operating licence, and its domain table recorded 1065 active and 361 white-label entries — a white-label site being one that trades under another company’s licence rather than its own. A remote licence number on the register has the form (account)-R-(number)-(suffix); the leading six digits repeat the licence holder’s account number and the R marks a remote (online) licence. That string is the only reliable proof of standing, because marketing pages and footers can claim almost anything.

The cost of stepping outside the UK net

A player who chooses an offshore site for any reason — larger bonuses, looser stake caps, fewer affordability interruptions — gives up a defined list of things, and the list is worth naming before any offer is weighed.

Mandatory GAMSTOP self-exclusion drops away. GAMSTOP is a condition of every online licence the Commission issues, and periods of six months, one year or five years cannot be cancelled early. A person who has self-excluded and then opens an account at an Anjouan-licensed site has, by definition, left the British safety net and used a gap the offshore operator was never required to close.

The UK’s stake and bonus caps stop applying. Online slots carry a maximum stake of £5 per game cycle for players aged 25 and over since 9 April 2025, and £2 for 18-24-year-olds since 21 May 2025. Since 19 December 2025 wagering requirements have been capped at 10x, and mixed-product bonuses — bet on sport, get casino spins — are banned. None of that follows a player offshore. Anonymous play is also not possible at a licensed site, where name, address and date of birth are verified before the first deposit or any play, in place since 7 May 2019.

The dispute route closes. A player with a complaint about an unlicensed site cannot use the Commission’s complaints process, which exists only for licensed operators, and an ADR (alternative dispute resolution) provider approved by the Commission has no jurisdiction either. The only recourse is the offshore licence’s own route — whatever that route happens to be.

The credit-card ban does follow the player. Credit cards have been banned for gambling since 14 April 2020, including cards routed through e-wallets, and that ban applies wherever the player is. Anonymous play, however, is still possible at an offshore site that does not run identity checks; that is part of what some players find attractive, and it is also part of what the UK regime is designed to prevent.

The Commission has tools against unlicensed sites — cease-and-desist notices, search-engine delisting referrals, payment and hosting referrals — but it has no power to block them at ISP level, and no penalty attaches to the player. The cost falls on the player who cannot get a payout reviewed, not on the operator that refused one.

How to read the register, and what “white-label” hides

Two terms on the Commission’s domain table carry weight a player should not skip past. The first is active. An active domain is one tied, right now, to the licence account named beside it. The licence itself can be active while the brand’s site is in the course of being moved, suspended or wound down, so the row that matters is the domain row, not the licence row above it.

The second is white label. A white-label domain trades under another operator’s licence — the marketing brand owns the customer relationship but does not own the licence behind it. Ladbrokes, Coral and Gala Bingo, for example, all sit under LC International Limited and are not separate licensees. The implication for a player is that a complaint, an affordability question or a self-exclusion request is handled by the company that owns the licence, not necessarily the brand whose logo is on the page.

That structural point sits in the middle of the Anjouan comparison. The Commission’s register names who is on the hook, which means a player can see who is on the hook. At an offshore site, that line is drawn by the operator’s own terms, and the licence behind it is, in the British frame, decorative.

Reading the table

The table below lists the ten operators covered in this comparison, the name of the licence holder on the Commission register, the active remote casino licence number, and the domain status recorded against that licence on 18 September 2026. Every one is a GB-licensed online operator, which means every one is required to take part in GAMSTOP. None of them is licensed under Anjouan; an Anjouan licence is, in this jurisdiction, not a route into the British market at all. The table is here as the comparator: it shows what the register actually looks like when a site is in good standing, so the absence of any row for an offshore brand is itself the answer to the question of whether it belongs.

The names are from one morning’s snapshot, and the snapshot has a half-life: an account number on the register this week can change status next week, the licence number stays but the suffix can be reissued, and a domain can move between Active, Inactive and White Label without the licence row above it changing at all. The table is therefore a still frame, not a contract.

Worked example: what the 10x wagering cap actually means

The 10x wagering cap in force since 19 December 2025 changes the arithmetic of any bonus whose small print once asked for forty or fifty times the bonus in turnover. The exact formula is: required turnover = bonus × wagering factor. At the cap, a £50 bonus costs £500 of qualifying wagering before any winnings become withdrawable; a £100 bonus costs £1,000; a £200 bonus costs £2,000. Each band is the bonus amount multiplied by the maximum factor the rule allows, so the higher the bonus on offer, the more the cap saves.

The cap’s effect runs the other way at offshore sites, where the 10x ceiling does not apply. A bonus that asks for forty times turnover is four times heavier than the worst case a UK player can now be offered under the same nominal headline. Read against a single £100 bonus, the difference between 10x and 40x is £3,000 of additional turnover the player must run through before any winnings become theirs. The “bonus” is the same number; what the player pays for it is not.

The cap’s impact is a band rather than a single figure because the bonus amount on offer varies. The headline percentage stays identical; the absolute number of pounds the player must wager does not.

The ten operators, side by side

What follows is the comparison the table starts. Each entry closes on the page’s own verdict — what the row above it actually adds up to for a reader choosing where to place a deposit. The licences and domain statuses are exactly as recorded on 18 September 2026.

Paddy Power

Paddy Power trades under PPB Games Limited, account 39411, remote casino operating licence 039411-R-319335-010; Paddy Power sits as an active domain on the Commission’s register. PPB Games is a long-standing Commission licensee, and the licence number resolves cleanly to the licence account that also runs the brand’s sportsbook. The Paddy Power and Betfair brands sit under the same group structure in practice, which matters only insofar as a complaint routes to PPB Games rather than to a separate entity.

Verdict: a heavyweight GB-licensed operator whose standing on the register is the model of what the page is asking an offshore licence to be — provable, current and tied to a named UK-regulated company. The value here for a reader is the standard to compare against.

Unibet

Unibet’s UK site runs under Platinum Gaming Limited, account 45322, remote casino licence 045322-R-324275-019; unibet.co.uk is an active domain on the register. Platinum Gaming is the Kindred Group’s British-facing vehicle, set up specifically for the post-2014 point-of-consumption regime. The licence number, like Paddy Power’s, shows an account number that opens with the same six digits as the holder’s account row.

Verdict: another clean read of the register, with a parent company that has chosen to keep its UK-facing brand under a dedicated British licence rather than rely on a wider EEA pass. For a player, the route from a complaint to a UK-regulated company is short.

Sky Vegas

Sky Vegas sits under Bonne Terre Gaming Limited, account 65519, remote casino licence 065519-R-339675-002; Sky Vegas is an active domain. Bonne Terre is the Sky-branded gambling arm, separate on the register from the Sky television business itself, and the licence is one of the more recent remote casino licences in the table. The licence suffix shows the licence has been reissued at least once, which is normal — the Commission revises licence numbers when terms change materially.

Verdict: a mainstream GB-licensed operator with the same protections as the rest of the table. The fact worth noting is that the licence number carries the same structure even on a newer licence — the format is the proof, not the age.

kwiff

kwiff runs under Eaton Gate Gaming Limited, account 44448, remote casino licence 044448-R-323408-017; kwiff is an active domain. Eaton Gate is a smaller licensee, and kwiff is its principal brand; the smaller scale shows in the lower licence-suffix count. A smaller licensee is not a worse licensee, but it is one whose entire UK-facing operation runs through a single account, so any change at the licence level touches everything the brand does.

Verdict: a focused GB-licensed operator whose compact structure makes the licence the single point of truth. Useful as a reminder that the table covers everything from household names to focused entrants, and the register is the same in both cases.

bet365

bet365’s UK site runs under Hillside (UK Gaming) ENC, account 55149, remote casino licence 055149-R-331499-004; bet365 is an active domain. Hillside is the bet365 family’s UK-facing entity and one of the highest-volume licensees on the register. The licence suffix is the lowest in the table — a low suffix number means the licence was among the early remote casino licences issued under the post-2014 regime.

Verdict: an established GB-licensed operator whose licence carries the longest unbroken record of the brands here. The contrast with an offshore licence is not subtle: bet365’s register entry is verifiable, current and points to a named UK-regulated company.

MrQ

MrQ runs under Tek Fox Ltd, account 60629, remote casino licence 060629-R-337532-004; MrQ is an active domain. Tek Fox is a smaller independent licensee; MrQ is its principal casino brand. Independent licensees tend to operate a single brand and accept that the licence is their single biggest asset, which makes them careful about the register row.

Verdict: a clean independent GB-licensed operator. The verdict here is structural rather than comparative: a small licensee has more to lose from a bad register entry, and the entry is clean.

Midnite

Midnite runs under Dribble Media Limited, account 42647, remote casino licence 042647-R-321653-022; Midnite is an active domain. Dribble Media is a relatively recent licensee; Midnite is its main consumer-facing brand. The relatively high licence-suffix number is consistent with a more recent licence reissue — the format of the licence number is unchanged but its history is shorter.

Verdict: a newer GB-licensed operator whose licence is current and whose standing on the register is as verifiable as any of the larger names. The point is the breadth of the table: the register covers an entrant of this size the same way it covers bet365.

Virgin Games

Virgin Games sits as a white-label domain under Gamesys Operations Limited, account 38905, remote casino licence 038905-R-319430-022. The white-label status is the entry worth reading twice: Virgin Games is the marketing brand, Gamesys Operations is the licensee, and the player relationship and the licence relationship are not the same company. A complaint routes to Gamesys Operations regardless of what logo is on the page.

Verdict: a strong consumer brand carried on someone else’s licence. The register makes that structure visible in a way marketing pages tend not to — and visibility is exactly what the British safety net is built on.

BetVictor

BetVictor runs under BV Gaming Limited, account 39576, remote casino licence 039576-R-319370-028; BetVictor is an active domain. BV Gaming is the BetVictor family’s UK-facing entity, set up after the 2014 Act to consolidate the brand’s UK operations. The licence suffix is the second-highest in the table after Grosvenor, which signals a long history of licence reissues — each suffix reflecting a substantive change to licence terms rather than a routine renewal.

Verdict: a long-running GB-licensed operator whose licence has been reissued multiple times. The format of the licence number is unchanged; what has changed is the text behind it, and the register holds the record.

Grosvenor Casinos

Grosvenor Casinos runs under Rank Interactive (Gibraltar) Limited, account 57924, remote casino licence 057924-R-334666-005; Grosvenor Casinos is an active domain. The licence holder carries a Gibraltar address in its name, which is normal under the post-2014 regime: the holder can be based anywhere provided it holds a Commission licence, and that licence is the basis on which the site serves British customers. The licence suffix is the highest in the table, which means the licence has been reissued more often than any of the others.

Verdict: a GB-licensed operator whose holder is Gibraltar-based but whose British authority is the Commission’s. The detail matters because it shows what the British regime looks like in practice: a Commission licence is the only thing that counts, regardless of where the holder’s office sits. The contrast with the Anjouan comparison is direct.

What the register does not cover

Three things are worth saying out loud, because they are the parts a reader might assume the table answers.

The first is offshore standing. The table lists ten GB-licensed operators, none of them Anjouan-licensed, and the absence is the answer. An Anjouan-licensed site is, by definition, not on the Commission’s public register, and any site whose entry cannot be found on the register should be treated as outside the British safety net until the player can verify otherwise.

The second is consumer protection. The table does not compare bonus size, game count or payout speed, because those are not the focus of this comparison. The core value is in the licence line and the domain status, both of which can be checked independently of any marketing claim.

The third is real-time status. The register changes. The snapshot used here is from 18 September 2026; a row that was Active on that date can become Inactive later, and an Inactive row can return to Active. Anything a reader does with the table should be cross-checked against the live register on the day of the decision.

What this means for a UK reader choosing where to play

The page’s argument is not that Anjouan-licensed sites are dishonest. Some are well-run and some are not; the same is true of Commission-licensed sites. The argument is that a UK player choosing an Anjouan-licensed site gives up a defined set of protections by doing so: mandatory GAMSTOP, the Commission’s complaints route, ADR access, the £5 and £2 stake caps, the 10x wagering ceiling, the mixed-product bonus ban and the anonymous-play block. None of those protections is aesthetic; each one is a rule that exists because the British regulator decided the player needed it.

The Commission’s enforcement toolkit is real but limited. It can issue cease-and-desist notices, refer sites to payment providers and hosting services for delisting, and ask search engines to remove results. It cannot block sites at ISP level, and it does not penalise players. What a player loses on an unlicensed site is therefore not a fine but a route: there is no Commission complaints process for an unlicensed operator, no ADR, and no recourse to the body that issued the licence if the licence is from a jurisdiction whose own regulator does not recognise its own permits.

The list of ten operators above is one slice of the 139 businesses on the Commission’s register. The full register is downloadable as CSV or Excel, which means the verification work this page has done for ten brands can be done by any reader for any brand they are considering. The register is the test, the table is the example, and the answer for an Anjouan-licensed site is that it fails the test by construction.

A note on the limits the British regime does impose

It is worth ending on what the British regime does do, because the page’s argument is not against offshore gambling as such — it is against offshore gambling presented as equivalent. Online slots are limited to a £5 stake per game cycle for adults aged 25 and over (from 9 April 2025) and £2 for 18-24-year-olds (from 21 May 2025). Auto-play has been banned since 31 October 2021; a single spin may not complete faster than 2.5 seconds; losses disguised as wins are banned. The minimum age is 18. Identity, address and date of birth are verified before the first deposit or any play, since 7 May 2019.

Players do not pay tax on gambling winnings in the UK. Operators pay Remote Gaming Duty, raised from 21% to 40% from 1 April 2026 — the figure is the published rate and should be checked with HMRC for the latest. The Helpline is GamCare’s National Gambling Helpline; GambleAware is the education body. The GAMSTOP register runs for six months, one year or five years, and the choice cannot be reversed early. The Commission’s light-touch but compulsory architecture is what an offshore licence opts the player out of, and that is the cost the page is here to name.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 requires any operator taking customers in Great Britain to hold a Gambling Commission licence, regardless of where the operator is based. An Anjouan licence, on its own, does not meet that test, and offering remote gambling to GB consumers without a Commission licence is a criminal offence under section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005.

Are ID checks still carried out at an Anjouan-licensed site?

Not necessarily. UK-licensed sites have had to verify name, address and date of birth before a first deposit or any play since 7 May 2019. An offshore site is not bound by that rule, and some Anjouan-licensed operators verify customers only at withdrawal, or not at all, depending on their own terms and the payment route used.

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

No. GAMSTOP is a mandatory condition of every online licence the Gambling Commission issues. An Anjouan-licensed site is outside the Commission’s licensing perimeter and is not required to consult the GAMSTOP database, so a self-exclusion registered with GAMSTOP does not stop a new account being opened at such a site.

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

No. The £5 (25+) and £2 (18-24) stake caps and the 10x wagering ceiling introduced on 19 December 2025 are conditions of a UK operating licence. An offshore site can set its own stake limits and bonus terms; what it cannot do is lawfully advertise to or take deposits from British customers in the first place.

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

No. The Commission’s complaints process and any ADR provider approved by the Commission apply only to Commission-licensed operators. A dispute with an Anjouan-licensed site is handled under the site’s own terms, in the jurisdiction named in those terms, and the player has no automatic right to an independent British review.

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

No. They are issued by different bodies, under different laws, with different standing in Great Britain. A Gambling Commission licence is the only licence that allows a site to transact with GB consumers; an Anjouan licence is a separate authorisation recognised only where the operator’s own terms and the receiving jurisdiction allow it to be.

Written by the editors at trustedcasinocheck.