Anjouan gaming licences: what they are, how to check one, and what they do not give players

Who issues an Anjouan licence

Anjouan licences are issued under the Computer Gaming Licensing Act of 2005. The authority’s website names the Anjouan Offshore Financial Authority as the regulator and Anjouan Licensing Services Inc. as its “sole authorised administrator”^[5]. The seal validator gives the issuer as the “Offshore Finance Authority of the State of Anjouan”^[6]. The names vary from page to page, which is worth knowing when a casino uses yet another one. BK8’s footer calls it the “Anjouan eGaming Authority”^[7].

The authority’s website, its register and its seal validator sit on three domains, anjouangaming.com, anjouangaming.org and anjouangamingboard.org. All three were registered within seven seconds of each other on 22 May 2023^[8].

What it costs, and how big it is

The published fee is €17,828 to issue a licence and €17,828 a year to renew it, plus €500 for each extra domain on a consumer licence^[2].

When we downloaded the public register on 29 October 2026 it held 1,258 entries, and every one was marked “valid”. Yet 89 of those entries carried an expiry date that had already passed^[8]. The authority’s own status definitions use “Active”, “Suspended”, “Revoked” and “Expired”, not “valid”^[9]. Treat the register as a starting point and check the expiry date yourself.

How to check an Anjouan licence

1. Find the company and the ALSI number in the site’s footer.
2. Search the register at anjouangaming.com for the company. Check that the status, the expiry date and the list of domains match^[1].
3. Check the domain. The register lists the domains each licence covers. Our checks found that neither BK8 nor me88 listed the domain actually serving Malaysian visitors^[1].
4. Click the seal on the site itself. The authority requires the seal to link “directly to the official licence verification page”, and forbids its use on domains the licence does not cover^[10]. A seal that validates only for a different domain, as BK8’s did, does not cover the site you are on^[6].

The register also warns that listing a domain “does not confirm ownership of the domain, trademark, or any associated intellectual property”^[11]. Our BK8 licence check, where the seal covered a different domain, shows the problem in practice.

What it does and does not give players

An Anjouan licence comes with some player-protection rules. Licensees must name an approved alternative dispute resolution (ADR) provider in their terms, and the operator pays for the process^[12][13]. They must offer self-exclusion and limits on deposits, wagers and losses^[12].

The limits matter more:

• the authority says it “does not handle, mediate, or adjudicate player complaints” and that players “should not contact the Authority to resolve a dispute”^[3];
• complaints and ADR must be conducted in English^[3];
• the ADR requirement applies to existing licensees only from their next renewal^[12];
• Anjouan says its licences “do not override local prohibitions”, leaving operators responsible for blocking countries where gambling is illegal^[14].

The criticism

In December 2025 ABC News in Australia reported that Comoros authorities describe Anjouan’s regulators as “fictitious entities” operating “illegally”. It reported that banking laws passed in 2013 and 2015 stripped the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority of its status as a recognised regulator, and that a former Comoros attorney-general called Anjouan Licensing Services “an illegal entity”^[4]. Anjouan Gaming maintains that its licences are valid and cites an unnamed independent legal opinion^[14].

In September 2026 the Financial Action Task Force listed, among its red flags for gambling, platforms based in jurisdictions with weak anti-money-laundering controls. It did not name Anjouan^[15]. The same month, Anjouan tightened its licence conditions on ownership, ADR and business substance^[12].

None of this decides whether a particular Anjouan licence is real. It does mean that an Anjouan licence is a weak form of accountability, and from Malaysia it is no accountability at all. Online casino play is an offence here whatever the licence^[16]. Our step-by-step guide to checking any casino licence covers the other regulators.