Gambling license in Anjouan

Anjouan licenses internet gaming under a framework built on legislation adopted in 2005, and the practical question here is rarely the price. It is whether the licence you hold can be shown to be real to a bank, a payment provider or an app store.

The authority answers that with three published things: a fee schedule, a register of licensed entities, and a certificate that carries its own verification code. Everything else in this regime is written as licence conditions rather than as a tariff, and conditions are what a supervisor checks you against later.

The island sits in the Union of the Comoros, and our other work in the country is listed on the Comoros page. Whether Anjouan is the right answer at all is a question for gambling licensing; the rest of our regulatory work is on licensing and compliance.

What you get

• The category chosen against what you actually sell, and the permitted activities read against your product
• Corporate, personal and financial documents assembled as one package rather than sent in instalments
• Your ownership chain written out to the ultimate beneficial owner, with the nominee and trust arrangements named
• Every domain you intend to use submitted for approval before launch, and the later ones added properly
• An approved dispute service appointed and written into your player terms

The two licence categories

Consumer-facing category

Issued to a company offering gaming directly to players. Permitted activities run from online casino and sports betting through poker and bingo to prediction markets and blockchain platforms.

Service-provider category

Issued to a critical supplier of platform, software or technical services to a licensed holder. Obligations here attach to technical integrity and to your place in the supply chain.

What the fee schedule says

Fees are payable in euro and identical for both categories: 17,828 euro on issuance, the same amount for each annual renewal, and 500 euro for every additional domain on an operator licence. Application fees are not returned whatever the outcome, and the authority can charge separately for amendments, domain changes and replacement certificates.

What has to be declared, and kept declared

The use of nominees, trusts and foundations in the shareholding must be disclosed, and so must arrangements whose effect is to stay below the ten per cent notification threshold. The authority may ask any beneficial owner to evidence source of wealth regardless of the percentage held, including owners whose status comes from a citizenship-by-investment programme. Individuals in designated roles need key person authorisation, and material changes to the licensed operation are notified as they happen.

Sources: fee amounts, licence categories, permitted activities, application stages and licence conditions are published by the authority itself at its fee schedule, licence types and licence conditions; the 2005 legal basis is stated in its overview, read 23 September 2026.