Is the Anjouan Gambling Licence Legitimate? The Legal Basis, the Public Register and What the Licence Covers

Four questions, not one

People asking whether the Anjouan licence is legitimate usually mean one of four things.

Is it legally valid? Yes. It is issued under Anjouan’s own legislation, by an authority with a published register. The Union of the Comoros has no gambling statute of its own (see below).

Does it give market access? It is an international base licence. Markets that license gambling locally require their own licence; the Anjouan licence suits markets that do not.

Where does it sit among licences? It is the lowest-cost, fastest full offshore licence on our tables, chosen for speed and a published price rather than Tier-1 standing.

Will payment partners work with it? Crypto-payment providers and specialist iGaming providers do; mainstream card acquirers rarely onboard offshore-licensed operators. Confirm your own payment partner before you apply.

What can be verified

The framework rests on legislation adopted in 2005, including the Anjouan Computer Gaming Licensing Act, on the autonomous island of Anjouan within the Union of the Comoros.

The institutional chain is published and has four parts. The Anjouan Offshore Financial Authority is the competent regulatory authority. The Anjouan Gaming Board oversees licence administration. Anjouan Licensing Services Inc. is the sole authorised administrator and official representative of the Board. The platform at anjouangaming.com carries the register, the verification tool, the fee schedule and the licence conditions.

That is more published infrastructure than several other offshore regimes maintain, and it is checkable. The fee schedule is public, which is not true everywhere. Licence conditions are public. The register accepts a domain and returns the holder, the number, the type and the status.

One correction while we are here. The regulator is widely called the Anjouan Betting and Gaming Board, abbreviated ABGB. That name appears nowhere on the Authority’s site. This site used it too, in a page title, until September 2026.

What the public record shows on enforcement and recognition

Revocation is a hard power. The Authority publishes a revoked-licences page with a table laid out under the headings Company, Termination Date, Licence Number, Type, Domains and Reason. No revocations are listed to date, which fits a regime that began licensing at scale in 2023. The stated consequence of revocation is permanent: no future licensing is considered, and the associated URLs are blocked from use under any other licence. Blocking the domains as well as the company closes the usual re-registration route.

Recognition is through trade, not gambling arrangements. The Authority’s international cooperation page describes no memoranda of understanding with other gambling regulators. It cites the accession of the Comoros to the World Trade Organization in August 2024, which is a general framework for cross-border services.

A register entry confirms the licence. In the Authority’s own words, verification “does not constitute an endorsement of the licence holder’s services, products, or business practices”. The register tells you who holds a licence; a casino’s own terms tell you about its games, payments and withdrawals.

Is it a scam?

No. Some pages describe the Anjouan licence as a scam, and the evidence does not support that. The framework, the published conditions, the fee schedule and the register all exist and can be checked by anyone.

The Union of the Comoros has no gambling statute or gaming regulator of its own, and a Central Bank of the Comoros communiqué of 15 June 2022 on offshore banking approvals lists the institutions the bank authorises; it does not mention gaming. Our Comoros page sets out the Union texts and both island registers as counted on 8 October 2026. The licence is issued under Anjouan’s legislation.

Where confusion arises, it usually comes from how the licence is described by third parties: as granting access to regulated markets, or as backed by the Union government. Neither is how the Authority describes it.

What this licence is useful for

For an operator serving markets that do not license gambling domestically, it provides a regulated footing, obtained quickly, at a published price, with a public register a counterparty can check. That is a real product, and for crypto-first operators it is a cost-efficient one.

For regulated markets you will still need the local licence where your players are, and card acquiring at volume usually calls for a Curaçao or Tier-1 licence. Our market-access analysis works through which markets fit, and our verification guide covers what a register entry establishes.

How to test a licence seller’s claims

Four questions show whether a seller’s information is current. Ask which regulator name appears on the Authority’s own site, because a seller still saying Anjouan Betting and Gaming Board is working from stale material. Ask what the renewal costs, since the published figure is the same as issuance and a lower number signals an out-of-date source. Ask which specific markets the licence permits, and expect the answer “markets that do not license gambling locally”. And ask to see the licence in the public register by domain rather than as a certificate image.