The Anjouan licensing question

The timeline

Why it matters to a player

Set aside the constitutional history. The practical position is that an Anjouan licence gives you no register to check, no complaints route, no enforcement and no supervised player fund requirement.

It is a fee paid for a document. Whatever confidence you place in an Anjouan licensed operator has to rest entirely on the operator, because no institution stands behind it.

Which tracked operators are affected

• Rainbet, third by deposit volume
• Duel, fourth, and the highest average deposit in our set at $1,160
• BC.Game, which moved to Anjouan when its operating entity changed in 2024

The pattern worth noticing

Anjouan is where operators go when other jurisdictions become difficult. That is not an accusation against any particular operator, several of which chose it at launch and pay players reliably every day. It is an observation about what the jurisdiction is for.

The counterpoint, stated fairly

Operators using these licences generally maintain the arrangement is valid and that they operate lawfully. None of the reporting above establishes wrongdoing by any individual casino, and a weak licence is not evidence that a specific operator behaves badly.

What it establishes is narrower and harder to argue with: the licence provides the player with nothing.

How this affects our ranking

An Anjouan licence alone places an operator on our watchlist, regardless of volume or product quality. Duel has the best Originals maths in the market. Rainbet is among the fastest growing operators anywhere. Neither fact creates a route to recover funds. How standing works

Sources

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation investigation of 31 December 2025 is the primary source. Comoros Central Bank statements, the 2024 FATF and GIABA mutual evaluation, and follow up reporting from Tribuna, iGamingToday, VegasSlotsOnline and E-Play Africa corroborate it. We have summarised rather than reproduced that reporting.