Anjouan Casino Sites and the UK Regulatory Frame in 2026

Updated September 2026

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Data current as of 23 September 2026, checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register of gambling businesses.

An Anjouan licence does not authorise a casino to take a deposit from a player in Great Britain. That single fact reframes everything that follows on this page. The Anjouan Gaming authority exists — operating under the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority, which the Central Bank of Comoros publicly disowned in 2014 — and it does issue licences that online casinos use to operate in jurisdictions that accept them. Great Britain does not. Section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 makes it a criminal offence, since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 came into force on 1 December 2014, to provide or advertise remote gambling facilities to GB consumers without a Gambling Commission operating licence. Anjouan is not a substitute; neither is Curaçao, Malta, or the Isle of Man.

The consequence for a UK player who lands on an Anjouan-licensed site is sharp. Stay on it, knowing that the operator is acting unlawfully in the UK and that the protections a UK licence guarantees — mandatory GAMSTOP self-exclusion, the £5 and £2 stake caps, the 10× wagering ceiling, access to approved alternative dispute resolution — are not in force. Or move to a Gambling Commission licensee. The Commission’s public register held 139 businesses with an active remote casino operating licence on 18 September 2026, with 1065 active and 361 white-label domain entries attached to those accounts on the same day. The 10 brands reviewed below are the GB-licensed side of that choice, set out so the contrast with an Anjouan-licensed site is plain to see — not as a recommendation of any single brand, but as a working list of where the alternative actually sits.

For a reader comparing the two paths, three things have to settle before the rest of the comparison makes sense. What an Anjouan licence actually is, and where it sits within its own jurisdiction. Where it stands under UK law. What a UK player gives up by leaving the GB framework. The pages that follow work through each in turn, with the working alternative — the licensed operators — sitting beside them on the same register. The arithmetic of the bonus ceiling sits at the end of that walkthrough: the 10× cap is one of the most concrete protections on the GB side, and the calculation below shows what it looks like in spins and minutes at the maximum stake. A reader who has already chosen an Anjouan-licensed site will not see those numbers at all, and they are the kind of figure that puts a comparison on firmer ground than a marketing claim.

Stake Limits and Regulatory Standards

The Current Landscape: GB Operators and the Anjouan Alternative

The table below pulls every reviewed brand from a single source — the Gambling Commission’s public register of gambling businesses — and reads each row against four questions a UK player comparing an Anjouan-licensed site to a GB-licensed one actually needs answered. Who holds the licence? Which company answers to the Commission if something goes wrong? Is the brand’s domain listed as active or as a white-label skin of another operator’s licence? And — does this row sit on the Anjouan side of the divide at all? On that last column the answer is the same for every row: no. None of these ten are Anjouan-licensed. That is the point of the comparison.

Reading the table is the easy part. Reading the licence numbers is what takes a little practice. The format is fixed across the register: the leading six digits echo the licence holder’s account number; the “R” in the middle marks the licence as a remote (online) one rather than a land-based one; the trailing suffix counts the variations the account has been through. A suffix of 010 means a tenth amendment; 022 means a twenty-second. Across the ten rows above, suffixes run from 002 (Sky Vegas, an early licence amendment) to 028 (BetVictor, a longer licence history). A long suffix is not a red flag on its own — it reflects how many times the licence has been renewed, varied, or had a new game type added — but a small suffix on an account with a recent effective date can mark a new entry to the GB regime rather than a long-established operator.

The white-label row stands out for a different reason. A white-label site trades under another company’s licence — Virgin Games’ licence is held by Gamesys Operations Limited, not by a separate Virgin entity. Anyone in a dispute has Gamesys Operations Limited as the registered Commission licensee to pursue; the brand on the page is a marketing layer rather than the legal counterparty. That is not a defect of the licence; it is how the register is supposed to read. The same is true of the licence suffix on its own: a reader who sees a low number does not need to assume the licence is new. What the suffix shows is how many amendments have been recorded against that account, and the active status of the domain tells a reader the licence is currently in force.

Paddy Power

Paddy Power appears on the Commission’s register as Paddy Power, attached to account 39411 and to PPB Games Limited’s active remote casino operating licence 039411-R-319335-010. The leading six digits echo the account number, the “R” marks the licence as remote, and the trailing suffix (010) identifies it as the tenth licence on this account. The domain is listed as active.

For a UK player checking the register before depositing, this is the cleanest possible status. The licence holder is named on the register, the licence number resolves back to that holder through the account number, and there is no third party in the chain. Anyone with doubts about who is responsible for the site can find the company name on the register and trace it directly to a UK-facing operator rather than a corporate wrapper in a third country.

The licence record here reflects a long UK trading history rather than a recent market entry, with a suffix that sits in the middle of the range and an account number that has not been reassigned. For a reader who wants the brand recognition of a household-name bookmaker, the register entry confirms the licence holder under that name is the same company that has traded the brand for years.

Unibet

Platinum Gaming Limited holds Unibet’s active GB licence (045322-R-324275-019), with unibet.co.uk registered against the operator’s account 45322 and listed as an active domain. The leading six digits echo the account number; the trailing suffix here is 019.

Platinum Gaming Limited is the UK trading entity behind the Unibet name in Great Britain. The account number (45322) and the suffix (019) suggest an operator that has cycled through several licence amendments since first being authorised — a typical profile for a long-established GB-facing brand that has grown by acquisition and added new game verticals along the way.

A cross-border brand whose UK trading company shows up on the Commission register in its own right, with nineteen amendments behind the current licence. This entry confirms the operator’s standing for a reader who knows the brand from other markets.

Sky Vegas

Sky Vegas shows up on the register under Bonne Terre Gaming Limited (account 65519, licence 065519-R-339675-002), with Sky Vegas marked as an active domain. The leading digits echo the account number; the suffix (002) marks this as the second licence on the account.

The account holder is the company that operates the Sky Vegas product on the Sky Broadcasting side of the brand; the gambling licence is held in its own right, not under the Sky brand itself. For a UK player, that separation matters at the level of who answers to the Commission: Bonne Terre Gaming Limited is the entity that does, and the licence number resolves back to that company name through the account number on the register.

The right pick for a reader who already has a Sky account and wants the casino side of the brand to sit with the same group, but with the gambling licence held by a separate company rather than the broadcaster itself. The Commission paperwork confirms that separation, rather than letting the Sky name on the page do the work alone.

kwiff

kwiff’s GB licence is held by Eaton Gate Gaming Limited: account 44448, licence 044448-R-323408-017, with kwiff listed as an active domain on the register. The account number (44448) leads the licence number; the suffix (017) is one of the higher numbers among the brands reviewed, pointing to a licence that has been amended many times since first being granted.

Eaton Gate Gaming Limited is a smaller operator than several of the others on this list, and a more recent addition to the GB-licensed cohort than the household names. The high suffix count is consistent with a licence that has been re-shaped as the brand added product rather than a licence that has been in place for decades unchanged.

The licence on the Commission’s register is just as current as the bigger operators’, and the domain is listed against the licence holder by name. A smaller operator on the GB register with a high amendment count and an active listing — the licence is current, the brand is newer.

bet365

Hillside (UK Gaming) ENC holds the bet365 GB licence: account 55149, licence 055149-R-331499-004, with bet365 appearing as an active domain against that account. The suffix (004) is small relative to others on this list.

The “ENC” in the licence holder’s name marks the company as an Established National Company — the corporate form used by the Stoke-based group that runs the bet365 sportsbook and casino. Hillside is among the largest remote operators licensed in Great Britain by player volume. The account number (55149) matches the licence’s leading digits, and the active Commission licence is attached to the same company that has held the bet365 name in the UK for years.

The operator with the largest UK player base of the ten, with the Commission’s paperwork to match in the form of a small, settled suffix and an active listing against an account number that has not changed hands.

MrQ

MrQ runs as MrQ on the register under Tek Fox Ltd’s licence (account 60629, 060629-R-337532-004), with the domain listed as active. The licence suffix (004) is small, suggesting a licence that has not been amended many times.

Tek Fox Ltd is a smaller operator than most of the brands on this page. MrQ runs as a standalone GB-licensed site rather than a white-label of someone else’s licence, and the licence holder on the register is a single company rather than a group with multiple brand skins attached to the same account.

A standalone GB-licensed site under Tek Fox Ltd, with no parent-company trail on the register and a clean suffix. An accessible entry for a reader who prefers depositing with a smaller independent operator rather than a household-name group.

Midnite

Midnite’s licence is held by Dribble Media Limited — account 42647, licence 042647-R-321653-022, with Midnite listed as active on the register. The suffix (022) is among the higher numbers on this list, indicating a licence that has been through multiple variations.

Dribble Media Limited is a smaller trading entity on the GB register, and the Midnite name is a more recent addition to the GB-licensed cohort than most of the brands in this comparison. The high amendment count fits a licence that has been re-shaped as the operator added products, payment methods and game types in its first years on the register.

A more recent addition to the GB-licensed cohort, with a high amendment count that reflects a licence still being shaped rather than one that has settled into a long, unchanged record. It demonstrates how a brand authorised as a sportsbook can expand its offering within the same licensing framework.

Virgin Games

Virgin Games trades under another operator’s licence: Gamesys Operations Limited holds the licence (038905-R-319430-022, account 38905), with Virgin Games listed as a white-label domain rather than an active listing. The leading digits match the account number; the suffix (022) is one of the higher numbers among the brands reviewed, reflecting a long history of licence amendments on the underlying account.

The white-label status is the key detail here. Virgin Games does not hold its own Gambling Commission licence. Gamesys Operations Limited does, and Virgin Games appears under that licence as a branded skin. For a UK player, the practical consequence is that any complaint goes to Gamesys Operations Limited first, not to a separate Virgin entity, and the obligation to honour a GAMSTOP self-exclusion sits with Gamesys Operations Limited as the Commission licensee.

The only white-label site in the ten rows above — Virgin Games does not hold its own licence, and the register says so. It serves as a reminder to check the licence holder name, ensuring the reader knows exactly which entity is responsible for the site’s operation.

BetVictor

BV Gaming Limited holds the BetVictor GB licence (039576-R-319370-028, account 39576); BetVictor is listed as an active domain. The suffix (028) is the highest on this list, which fits an operator that has held UK-facing licences across several brand extensions over the life of the GB remote casino regime.

BV Gaming Limited operates the BetVictor product and has done so for the duration of the GB remote casino regime. The licence holder on the register is the same company that operates the betting brand, and the licence number resolves back to that company through the account number. The high suffix reflects the licence being varied many times to add new game types and product lines rather than any change of ownership.

A long-running independent brand, with twenty-eight amendments behind its current licence and no offshore corporate trail on the register. For a reader who prioritises established independent operators, the licence record here provides the necessary validation.

Grosvenor Casinos

Grosvenor Casinos’ licence is held by Rank Interactive (Gibraltar) Limited — account 57924, licence 057924-R-334666-005, with Grosvenor Casinos listed as active. The suffix (005) is small relative to several other licences on this list.

The “Gibraltar” in the licence holder’s name shows where the company is incorporated, but the licence itself is a Gambling Commission remote casino licence. A Gibraltar-incorporated company can hold a GB licence as easily as a UK one, and what matters to a UK player is the licence number on the Commission’s register, not the place of incorporation. The same GAMSTOP obligation, the same dispute-resolution routes, the same Commission enforcement apply to Rank Interactive (Gibraltar) Limited as to a UK-incorporated licensee.

A high-street name on the GB register under a Gibraltar-incorporated company — the licence is current, the place of incorporation is not the deciding factor. The right pick for a reader who knows the Grosvenor name from the physical estate and wants to confirm that the online side of the business sits on the GB register under a current licence.

The ten rows together form a single shape. Each is a GB-licensed operator; none offers a path that runs through Anjouan. A reader who arrived looking for an Anjouan-licensed casino as an alternative to a UK site has reached the end of what the Commission’s register contains regarding that topic — there is no such row in the table — and the rest of this page sets out what an Anjouan licence actually is, why it is not a workable route from a UK IP address, and what a UK player loses by choosing a site that runs on one.

The Fundamentals of an Anjouan Gaming Licence

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. In 2002 the island established the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority to promote itself as an offshore financial centre and tax haven — the same institutional home that now hosts internet gambling licensing. The Anjouan Gaming authority, styled the “Internet Gaming Regulatory Authority”, operates under that Finance Authority and issues separate B2C and B2B internet gaming licences from there.

What that licence actually authorises is narrower than the marketing suggests. An Anjouan internet gaming licence permits a site to operate online gambling in jurisdictions that accept the Anjouan regulator as sufficient — a category that depends on the receiving jurisdiction, not on Anjouan. The licence does not give a site access to Great Britain, the United States, or any country whose own licensing regime is incompatible with Anjouan’s. A licence that sounds global is, in practice, a passport to a specific list of countries, and a UK player on an Anjouan-licensed site is not on a list the regulator recognises as theirs.

The Central Bank of Comoros, the monetary authority of the Union of the Comoros that includes Anjouan, 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. That statement does not directly bind the gaming regulator, but it does establish that the parent authority’s standing is contested by the very monetary authority of the country the licence nominally sits inside. The same year, GIABA — the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa — published a mutual evaluation report on the Union of the Comoros in May 2024 based on an on-site visit in July 2023, recording that gambling is prohibited under the Comorian Penal Code.

The Penal Code prohibition sits alongside the offshore licensing regime rather than being reconciled with it. A regulator can issue licences without the underlying jurisdiction having legalised the activity they licence. Both statements appear on the same island: gambling is prohibited, and gambling licences are issued. A footer that declares “fully licensed and regulated” is drawing on the second statement, not the first; the first statement is what makes the second possible only because the licence is sold to operators outside the jurisdiction.

For a UK player reading that footer, the consequence is a licence that exists on paper but has no standing in the regulator’s own country. The gambling activity it authorises is, by the Comorian Penal Code, prohibited. The parent authority that issues it is not recognised by the country’s central bank. The marketing speaks of licensed gaming; the underlying framework speaks of a jurisdiction that does not allow the activity in its own territory. The two statements can co-exist on a website because they refer to different legal orders, and a UK reader looking at that footer has no way of telling which one would apply to a deposit made from London.

The Anjouan Gaming authority’s own positioning, as an offshore internet gaming regulator selling licences into other markets, also explains why the protections a UK player takes for granted — identity verification before the first deposit, stake caps, self-exclusion lists, approved dispute resolution — are not part of what the licence requires. None of those is a condition of an Anjouan licence, because the licence is sold to operators whose customers are not on Anjouan and whose protection regimes are not Anjouan’s to set. The marketing line and the regulatory reality point in opposite directions, and the next section shows what UK law does about that gap.

Jurisdiction: Where an Anjouan Licence Stands in UK Law

UK gambling law runs on a different axis entirely. 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 by separate legislation) and set the Commission’s objectives of preventing crime, ensuring fairness, and protecting children and other vulnerable people. Before 2014, operators licensed in the European Economic Area, in Gibraltar, or in “white-listed” jurisdictions such as Alderney, the Isle of Man, Tasmania and Antigua and Barbuda could serve Great Britain customers without a Gambling Commission licence.

The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 ended that arrangement. From 1 December 2014, any remote gambling operator transacting with or advertising to consumers in Great Britain must hold a Gambling Commission operating licence, regardless of where the operator is based. The same Act brought in point-of-consumption tax on gross gambling yield from GB customers. The Explanatory Notes to the 2014 Act are unusually specific for UK legislation on this point: it is a criminal offence to provide or advertise remote gambling facilities to Great Britain consumers without a Gambling Commission licence, regardless of any licence, such as one from Anjouan, that the operator holds elsewhere. Parliament anticipated exactly the case where an offshore licence is offered as a defence.

The Gambling Commission responds to unlicensed sites with the tools it has. It issues cease-and-desist notices, refers sites to search engines for delisting, and refers payment and hosting providers. It does not have ISP-blocking power, which is why unlicensed sites can still be reached from a UK IP address. The penalties for operating without a licence fall on the operator, not on the player; a UK reader using an Anjouan-licensed site is not personally breaking the law by depositing. What the player loses is everything that makes UK play comparatively safe.

The Commission’s public register is the whole test of whether a brand holds a UK licence. The register can be searched online and downloaded in full as CSV or Excel files, and on 18 September 2026 it held 139 businesses with an active remote casino operating licence. That number is the size of the lawful market, and the 1065 active and 361 white-label domain entries attached to those accounts are the doors through which a UK deposit can lawfully pass. A footer that mentions Anjouan is not one of them.

For a UK player reading a footer that says “licensed by the Government of Anjouan”, the practical test is short. Does the domain appear on the Gambling Commission’s public register? If not, every other statement on the page — about withdrawal times, about dispute resolution, about self-exclusion — runs through an operator that the Commission cannot reach. The marketing words are cheaper than the licence they substitute for, and the protection those words imply is the protection that is missing. An Anjouan licence authorises a casino to operate online gambling in jurisdictions that accept it; Great Britain does not, and the register is the proof.

Player Wellbeing on an Anjouan-Licensed Site

The case for using a Gambling Commission-licensed site rather than an Anjouan-licensed one is, for a UK player, almost entirely about what an Anjouan licence does not require of its operators. The protections on the GB side are not optional extras; they are mandatory conditions of holding a licence, and the difference between a site that is bound by them and one that is not is the difference between a complaint the Commission can take up and one it cannot.

GAMSTOP self-exclusion is the clearest example. Since 31 March 2020, participation in GAMSTOP — the national online self-exclusion scheme — has been a mandatory condition of every online Gambling Commission licence. A player can self-exclude for six months, one year or five years, and the period cannot be cancelled early. The list is shared across every GB-licensed operator; a self-exclusion request through GAMSTOP is binding on every site on the Commission’s register. An Anjouan-licensed site is not on that list, has no obligation to honour a GAMSTOP exclusion, and is not part of the scheme. A player who has self-excluded through GAMSTOP and then opens an account on an Anjouan-licensed site has used a tool that does not apply to the new account, regardless of how recent the exclusion was.

The stake caps are the second clear example. Online slots in Great Britain carry a maximum stake per game cycle of £5 for players aged 25 and over (in force since 9 April 2025) and £2 for players aged 18 to 24 (in force since 21 May 2025). The caps apply at every Gambling Commission licensee; an Anjouan-licensed site has no equivalent ceiling, and the same slot that takes £5 a spin at a GB site may take £10 or more on an offshore one. A higher stake cap is not, on its own, a protection — a player who wants to stake £10 a spin might prefer the offshore site — but it removes a check the GB regulator has put in place to slow loss rates, and that is a meaningful difference when the discussion is about wellbeing rather than choice.

The bonus and wagering rules form a third layer. Since 19 December 2025, wagering requirements at any Gambling Commission licensee have been capped at 10× and mixed-product bonuses have been banned. The cap is on the multiplier applied to the bonus amount before withdrawal, and it is the same ceiling for every GB licensee. An Anjouan-licensed site can set its own multiplier, with no statutory ceiling; in practice that often means higher multipliers that take longer to clear. The 10× cap is described in more detail in the next section, with the arithmetic of what it means at different bonus sizes.

Financial vulnerability checks are a fourth. From 28 February 2025, every GB licensee must run a financial vulnerability check at £150 of net deposits in a rolling 30-day window, using public data only. The check flags a player whose circumstances suggest they should be prompted to set a deposit limit, and the operator is required to act on that flag. An Anjouan-licensed site has no such obligation; a player depositing heavily on one has no equivalent check on the account.

Other GB-side rules complete the picture. Identity verification — name, address and date of birth — has been required before the first deposit or any play since 7 May 2019; an Anjouan-licensed site may verify at its own discretion. Auto-play has been banned at GB licensees since 31 October 2021, and slots cannot run faster than one spin every 2.5 seconds; an offshore site has no such constraint. Credit cards have been banned for gambling at GB licensees since 14 April 2020, including credit cards routed through e-wallets; the same ban does not apply at an Anjouan-licensed site. Each of these is a small rule on its own; together, they describe a framework a UK player gives up by depositing on an Anjouan-licensed site.

What remains if a player gives up that framework is the operator’s own terms. The Anjouan licence requires the operator to honour its own published rules, and a serious operator will. But the rule is enforced by the Anjouan regulator, not by the Gambling Commission, and a UK player with a complaint about a withheld withdrawal has no approved UK alternative dispute resolution body to take the case to. Approved ADR in the UK is a Commission-recognised scheme that licensees must belong to; an Anjouan-licensed site is under no such requirement. The operator’s customer service team, then its internal escalation, then whatever the Anjouan regulator’s complaints process is — that is the route. The Commission’s complaints process is open only against its own licensees.

For a player who wants a reality check, a time-out, a self-exclusion that holds across every UK site, an ADR route if a withdrawal is delayed, a credit card ban to keep debt out of the equation — those exist on the GB side and not on the Anjouan side. A player who is content with an operator’s own limits and does not want a national scheme’s involvement has the offshore path open; the comparison is about what the framework provides, not about which is better for a particular reader.

The 10× Wagering Cap in Practice

The 10× wagering cap introduced on 19 December 2025 is the most concrete protection a GB-licensed casino offers on the bonus side, and it sits alongside the stake caps and identity rules as a fixed ceiling that applies at every licensed site. The cap is simple in form: the wagering requirement attached to a casino bonus cannot exceed ten times the bonus amount. A £100 bonus requires £1,000 of qualifying turnover before withdrawal; a £500 bonus requires £5,000. Any UK-licensed operator offering welcome packages, reload deals or casino bonuses falls under the same ceiling, and the licence number on the register is the warranty that the ceiling applies.

What that means in play depends on the stake a player is using. The maximum stake per spin at a GB licensee is £5 for players aged 25 and over and £2 for players aged 18 to 24 — the same caps that define the stake rules in the section above. Working through the band:

• A £100 bonus with a 10× wagering requirement means £1,000 of qualifying turnover. At the £5 maximum stake for a player aged 25 or over, that is 200 spins; with a slot spin taking at least 2.5 seconds, roughly eight minutes of play. At the £2 maximum for a player aged 18 to 24, it is 500 spins and around 21 minutes.
• A £500 bonus with the same 10× cap means £5,000 of qualifying turnover. At £5 a spin, 1,000 spins and around 42 minutes of play. At £2 a spin, 2,500 spins and roughly one hour and 44 minutes.
• A bonus anywhere in between — and the market includes offers at £200 and £300, smaller welcome packages, and reload deals — produces a turnover figure that scales linearly with the bonus, and a spin count that scales linearly with the turnover at any given stake.

The key qualification is that the wagering requirement is a multiplier on the bonus alone, not on the deposit plus the bonus. A “10× the bonus” cap is not the same as “10× the deposit plus bonus”. The bonus-only reading is the GB-licensed interpretation, and the conditions attached to a particular offer determine which applies; the rule the Commission has set is the 10× ceiling, not how each operator calculates the base.

The comparison to an Anjouan-licensed site is sharp. An Anjouan operator has no statutory wagering ceiling; in practice, the same offer at an Anjouan-licensed casino may carry a 30×, 40× or higher multiplier, with the same deposit and the same spin count taking several times longer to clear. A higher multiplier is not, on its own, a worse deal — some players prefer a smaller bonus with a longer playthrough, and some operators run no wagering requirement at all — but the absence of a ceiling means there is no upper bound on what the operator can set, and a reader who values knowing the worst case ahead of time is better served by a site where the worst case is statutory.

The 2.5-second spin floor and the £5 or £2 stake ceiling together cap how fast a player can grind through the wagering requirement at a GB site. The arithmetic shows that even the most generous plausible bonus — a £500 package — clears in under two hours of slot play at the maximum stake for an over-25. A player who sees a bonus that does not fit that band at a GB licensee is looking at a bonus whose stated wagering requirement exceeds 10× the bonus, which the operator should not be offering. If the offer still appears in the small print, the licence number on the register is worth checking, and the alternative offered by an Anjouan-licensed site is not the place to find that protection at all.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does an Anjouan gambling licence actually authorise?

An Anjouan licence is issued by the Anjouan Gaming authority on the island of Anjouan, operating under the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority. It permits a casino to operate online gambling in jurisdictions that accept the Anjouan regulator. It does not permit a casino to take deposits from Great Britain, where the Gambling Commission’s licence is the only one with standing.

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

No. A Gambling Commission licence is required under section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 for any operator taking GB customers. The two are issued by different regulators, under different statutory frameworks, and grant different permissions. An Anjouan licence does not substitute for a UK one; the public register is the only test.

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

No. GAMSTOP participation has been a mandatory condition of every Gambling Commission online licence since 31 March 2020. An Anjouan-licensed site is not on the Commission’s register, has no obligation to honour a GAMSTOP self-exclusion, and is not part of the scheme. A self-exclusion request through GAMSTOP does not bind an account opened at an Anjouan-licensed site.

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

No. The £5 stake cap for over-25s, the £2 cap for 18-24-year-olds, the 2.5-second minimum spin interval, the 10× wagering cap and the ban on mixed-product bonuses are all conditions of a Gambling Commission licence. None apply at an Anjouan-licensed site, which is not subject to the Commission’s LCCP or social responsibility codes.

Can a UK player use a UK dispute-resolution service against an Anjouan-licensed site?

No. Approved alternative dispute resolution in the UK is a Commission-recognised scheme that licensees must belong to. An Anjouan-licensed site is not a Commission licensee and has no obligation to belong to a UK ADR scheme. A complaint goes to the operator, then to the Anjouan regulator’s own process; no UK-approved body has jurisdiction.

Published by the casinoappguideuk team.