The Anjouan iGaming Route, Laid Out Honestly

Read this first

Two facts that reframe every Anjouan pitch

First, the honest line runs between what the Authority publishes and what it does not. The register, the fee schedule and the statute are real and checkable. Minimum capital, a local substance rule, a gaming-tax rate and any change-of-control procedure are simply absent from the published framework - not confirmed as zero, just not published. Any page that states them as settled facts is filling gaps the regime itself leaves open.

Second, this is an origin licence only. No memorandum of understanding, whitelist or mutual-recognition arrangement is published on the official site, and the licence passports nowhere. It confers no access to any regulated market. Operators who need locally regulated markets need local permissions in each of them; where a recognised tier-one permit is the real requirement, read the Isle of Man gambling licence route first.

What it is

A B2C operator licence for internet gaming

The instrument is a B2C operator licence for internet gaming. The published scope covers online casino, sports betting, poker and other permitted verticals, and expressly lists prediction markets, blockchain-based gaming platforms and cryptocurrency-enabled gaming operations. One licence covers the covered verticals; there is no per-vertical splitting and no class system of the Malta type.

It is a direct-licence regime. The old Curacao master-and-sub-licence economy has no equivalent here - nothing published anywhere official describes a master, sub-licence or white-label tier as a public permission. A private contractual label between operators is not a regulator-granted permission, and should never be presented as one.

Statute and administrator

The Computer Gaming Licensing Act, and the awkward part

The statutory basis is the Computer Gaming Licensing Act 007 of 2005, which established the Anjouan Computer Gaming Licensing Board and criminalises unlicensed operation. A buyer or applicant should know the awkward part plainly: the Authority's live legal-basis page currently cites no statute at all, and the Act's text has been removed from the live site. It is retrievable through public web archives, and belongs in any file alongside the licence documents.

Licence numbers in the register carry the ALSI prefix. Industry sources attribute day-to-day administration to a private administrator, Anjouan Licensing Services Inc., a role the live site no longer confirms - so it is reported here as attributed, not established. None of this is fatal, but all of it is why the register match and the primary documents, not the marketing, decide whether a specific licence is real.

The register

A real register - and one with no visible enforcement

The register is the regime's genuine strength. On 12 July 2026 it carried 1,425 searchable entries, 1,234 of them B2C, with 348 licences issued in 2026 alone. A mandatory embedded Interactive Licence Seal links each licensed website back to its register entry, so a specific licence can be matched by number, company name or domain rather than taken on trust.

It is also, on that date, a register with zero adverse statuses. Every entry shows as valid; no suspension or revocation is visible despite a published status taxonomy that provides for them. A regime with no visible enforcement record is cheaper to enter and harder to defend to a cautious bank or payment processor. Both halves of that sentence belong in a buyer's model.

Fees as published

The published schedule, and the numbers that are not on it

The Authority's fee schedule, as displayed in July 2026, prices a B2C licence at EUR 17,828 on issuance and EUR 17,828 on each annual renewal, with EUR 500 for each additional domain and unpriced administrative fees for amendments and replacement certificates. Application fees are stated to be non-refundable, and the schedule is expressly subject to periodic review - applicants are told to confirm current figures with the Authority.

Numbers widely quoted in the market but absent from the official schedule include cheaper all-in packages, a lower renewal figure said to include an administrator data-replication service, and a per-person key-person fee. Treat all of them as agent pricing until confirmed in writing. No official page publishes any gaming-tax rate; the blanket zero-tax pitch has no official source, and the Act's own arrangement of sections contemplates income tax on wagers.

Change of control

No change-of-control regime is published - what that means

There is no such mechanism as a licence transfer, in Anjouan or anywhere else: the licence attaches to the licensed company, and the Computer Gaming Licensing Act contains no transfer or assignment provision at all. What the Authority publishes is thin - material-change notification and Key Person Authorisation for incoming principals - and there is no numeric threshold, prescribed form, statutory window, published fee or publicised precedent for a change of ownership.

So the only route the market reports is a share transfer of the licence-holding company, followed by Key Person Authorisation for the new principals and a material-change notification through the administrator. The licence is not re-issued to the buyer. Any figure or timeline quoted for this process is an adviser's estimate, not a rule, and no adviser can guarantee the administrator's clearance of a new owner.

Reputational context

Read the offshore-finance communique - exactly for what it covers

On 10 December 2025 the Union of the Comoros Ministry of Finance republished a Banque Centrale des Comores communique listing the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority among bodies whose banking and financial licences it describes as illegal. The communique does not mention gaming licences - that distinction is exact and worth keeping - but it repudiates the parent-authority narrative used in much Anjouan marketing.

The regime's web presence is contested too. The operational portal, anjouangaming.com, was created in May 2023; other domains claim official status, one registered as recently as May 2026 and already declaring itself the only official site, another a misspelt lookalike selling licences by subscription. No domain predates 2023, so officialdom cannot be resolved by domain age - only the register, the licence seal and the documents behind a specific licence can do that.

The two ways in

Apply fresh, or acquire the licensed company

Two routes lead into the regime. The first is a fresh application: the corporate wrapper, the principals' due-diligence pack, platform and game-supplier evidence and the compliance baseline, filed through the administrator. Timelines are reported in weeks from a complete pack by market practitioners, but the Authority publishes no decision clock, so treat any number as an estimate, not a rule.

The second is acquiring a company that already holds a licence - a share sale of the licence-holding entity, with Key Person Authorisation for the incoming principals. Because no change-of-control procedure is published, the administrator's current requirements must be obtained in writing before signing. Our live lot, a ready-made Anjouan B2C licensed company, runs exactly this path, with pricing on request.

Either way, this is a starting permit. It fits operators validating a product, running crypto-first cashiers and planning a graduation path; it does not fit models that depend on tier-one banking or regulated-market access from day one. How the cost base compares across regimes is set out in our Isle of Man, Malta, Curacao and Anjouan comparison.

Moving target

What is changing, as of July 2026

Statements on this page are made as of July 2026. The fee schedule is expressly subject to periodic review; the Act's text is off the live site and read here through public web archives; the register's contents change daily; and the jurisdiction's web presence is actively contested. Verify the current text on the Authority's own pages, the Computer Gaming Licensing Act and the Banque Centrale des Comores communique before committing money or customer risk.