Anjouan licence
A gambling licence from Anjouan, a self-governing island in the Comoros. Tons of crypto casinos have one, and it gets a lot of criticism.
Anjouan is a small self-governing island, part of the Comoros, off East Africa. Its gaming regulator sells online gambling licences, and a pile of crypto casinos picked one up recently. Why? It's quick to get and it doesn't cost much.
Quick facts for you
- Even Anjouan's own regulator admits it: no licensing body can let an operator skip local law where a market wants its own authorisation. Translation: that licence won't make a site legal for players in Ontario, Alberta, the UK or anywhere with similar rules.
- The list of licence holders is long, and gambling trade media have pointed at some of them for accepting players in countries where they aren't licensed locally.
- On its side, the regulator says it requires due diligence, AML, KYC and responsible gaming measures.
What we make of it
For us, seeing Anjouan in the footer just tells us there's a real company with a regulator listed somewhere. It says nothing about whether you're protected. Our score leans way more on what happens when we cash out in our payout tests and on the way the site treats complaints.