Anjouan licensing: what the licence means for players

At a glance

Jurisdiction

Anjouan, Union of the Comoros

Legal basis

Island acts of 2005, as claimed by the issuer; not found in an official gazette by our research

Tier in our method

Tier D · quality score 25 of 100 · how we rate regulators

Public register

Issuer’s own licence register (not a government source)

Domain-level check

Only through the issuer’s own tool, which lists domains; it confirms listing, not lawful licensing

Researched

5 Oct 2026 from primary sources; confidence medium

Casinos we profile

3 of 15

What the authority is and does

Anjouan licences are presented by the website anjouangaming.com, which describes “Anjouan Gaming” as the regulator under the authority of the Anjouan Offshore Financial Authority and names Anjouan Licensing Services Inc. as sole authorised licence administrator. A different site, gamingcontrolanjouan.org, names “Anjouan Corporate Services” as the only authorised agent for licence applications, so more than one site claims an exclusive role.

The issuer relies on Anjouan island legislation of 2005 (a gaming licensing act, an offshore finance authority act and others) and a private legal opinion by an unnamed law firm. Our research did not find those acts in an official gazette, so their status is not verified.

The central bank of the Union of the Comoros (Banque Centrale des Comores) published a communiqué on 8 December 2025 stating that the Anjouan offshore bodies it names are not recognised in the Union of the Comoros and have no legal authorisation to issue licences, and that no online gambling licence is issued on national territory. The communiqué does not name anjouangaming.com specifically. We cannot resolve the dispute between island and national authorities and do not try to.

For that reason we describe the status of an Anjouan licence as “listed in issuer registry”: the casino appears in a register run by the body that issues the licence. It is a statement of listing, not independent confirmation of lawful licensing.

Our tier: D, and why

We rate each licensing regulator, not the casino, on five factors scored 0 to 4. Tier D covers quality scores below 35, or verifiability of 1 or less. The tier describes how strong and verifiable the framework is. It is not a rating of any casino, and it does not predict how a casino treats its players; read the licensing section of the methodology for the weights and the tier table.

What the public register shows, and how to check an entry

The register is run by the issuer, not by a government. Its table has the columns company, status, licence number, type, issue date, expiry date and domains, and the issuer’s verify tool accepts a licence number, a company name or an operating domain. The rows are loaded by script, so a browser with JavaScript is needed. The issuer reports more than 1,650 licences issued and close to 1,500 currently active (news item of 14 July 2026 on its own site).

Because every part of the lookup is published by the body that sells the licence, a match shows that the issuer lists the casino. We record it as “listed in issuer registry” and never as independent confirmation.

Register: Issuer’s own licence register (not a government source). The steps we follow:

1. Open the issuer’s verification tool on anjouangaming.com, which accepts a licence number, company name or operating domain. It needs a browser with JavaScript; save a dated screenshot.
2. Record the licence number, company, status, issue and expiry dates and the listed domains, and compare the company with the operating company named in the casino’s terms.
3. Note which issuing site or agent the casino itself refers to. Different sites claim the issuing role, so an inconsistency is worth writing down.
4. Read the expiry date next to the status. An expiry date in the past beside the status “valid” is a reason to ask the casino in writing which document is current.
5. Remember what the result shows: that the issuer lists the casino. Whatever the lookup returns, the Comoros central bank states that no online gambling licence is lawfully issued there.

The same procedure, for every regulator, is in how to check a licence yourself. How Anjouan licensing compares with the other tiers is summarised in the licence guide’s regulator section. For the side-by-side with Curaçao, read Anjouan vs Curaçao licences from the player’s side.

The register in numbers

The licence-watch snapshot of 9 Oct 2026 counts 1,543 entries in the issuer’s register, 1,497 of them naming at least one domain. Every one of the 1,543 entries carries the status “valid”, including 342 whose expiry date had already passed on the snapshot date; the issuer’s own status definitions also include expired, suspended and revoked. We do not know why, and we record it as the issuer’s statement. In the 90 days before the snapshot the register dates 110 B2C licences (31 in the last 30 days), in batches. See the new licences data report for the list and the method.

If something goes wrong: complaints and recourse

The issuer states that it “does not handle, mediate, or adjudicate player complaints”. Its complaint policy sends the player to the operator first (30 days) and then to an “approved independent ADR provider”, chosen and paid for by the operator. We have not verified those providers.

The issuer’s standards say operators segregate player funds from operational funds. We found no audit or reporting mechanism that lets anyone check this from outside.

Limits and caveats

• The legal authority of the issuing bodies is publicly disputed by the Comoros central bank (communiqué of 8 December 2025). This is a legal question that we do not decide.
• The issuer reported for the first quarter of 2026 twelve supervisory assessments and three formal compliance notices, for roughly 1,500 licences it describes as active. It lists suspended and revoked licences on its own site, but those lists are loaded by script and were not readable in our research.
• The issuer says its first annual regulatory report is in preparation (page read 5 October 2026).
• The licensing tier of a framework does not decide how a casino treats its players; the casino’s own terms, payments and conduct are assessed on its profile.

Casinos we profile under this licence

3 of the 15 casinos we profile name this licensing authority in their terms. The columns are the register finding for the exact domain at our last check, not an assessment of the casino; each profile shows the sources and dates. The same fields for all casinos are in the licence register check dataset.

Questions

Is an Anjouan licence legitimate?

The issuer says yes, under island acts of 2005. The central bank of the Union of the Comoros said in December 2025 that the bodies involved have no legal authorisation and that no online gambling licences are issued in the country. We cannot settle that, so we describe the status as “listed in issuer registry”, rate the framework Tier D and let the casino’s own terms and conduct carry the weight.

Why is an Anjouan licence “listed in issuer registry” and not “confirmed”?

Because the register is published by the body that sells the licence. There is no independent record to check it against, so we show the entry and label it as the issuer’s statement.

Who handles complaints under an Anjouan licence?

The issuer says it does not handle or adjudicate player complaints. You complain to the operator first, and then possibly to an ADR provider that the operator chooses and pays for.

Does the register show the website a licence covers?

Yes. Unlike the Curaçao PDF, the issuer’s register has a domains column, and the lookup accepts a domain. That makes the listing easy to match, but it is still the issuer’s own list.

Sources

Primary sources read on the dates shown; official and issuer pages open in a new tab and are not endorsements.

• Banque Centrale des Comores: communiqué of 8 Dec 2025 (French) · read 5 Oct 2026
• Anjouan Gaming: licence register (issuer) · read 5 Oct 2026
• Anjouan Gaming: verify a licence (issuer) · read 5 Oct 2026
• Anjouan Gaming: complaint policy (issuer) · read 5 Oct 2026
• Anjouan Gaming: regulatory recognition statement (issuer) · read 5 Oct 2026
• gamingcontrolanjouan.org: register of gaming licences (other site) · read 5 Oct 2026