Anjouan gaming licensing,
without the folklore.
A reference for founders evaluating an Anjouan gaming licence or an Anjouan International Business Company (IBC). Real costs, real timelines, and how to tell a real licence from a fake one.
Two products. One jurisdiction.
We help operators through the Anjouan gaming licensing process and form the Anjouan IBC that sits underneath it.
Gaming licence
Single licence covers casino, sportsbook, poker, esports, and prediction markets. B2C and B2B available.
- €17,828 regulator fee
- 2 to 4 week approval
- B2B licence available
Offshore IBC
Anjouan International Business Company formation. The offshore corporate chassis for your gaming licence or a standalone international holding structure.
- Formation in ~1 week
- No local office required
- Registered agent included
Why Anjouan, now.
After Curaçao's 2023 reform, operators who used to treat licensing as a checkbox suddenly owed six figures in new compliance costs. Anjouan absorbed that spillover.
A single Anjouan gaming licence covers casino, sportsbook, poker, and esports with no separate product classes. Approval is measured in weeks, not months. Entry-level year-one budget starts around €27,578 (licence fee plus ALSI-administered IBC formation and consultant fees) where Malta is closer to €170,000.
At the operator level the framework is crypto-permissive. Token whitelists are not enforced. Operators can denominate in stablecoins or native assets without a separate authorisation layered on top of the gaming licence.
It is not the right jurisdiction for every operator. It is the right jurisdiction for a lot more of them than it was three years ago.
Real licences exist.
So do the fake ones.
The regulator is the Anjouan Gaming Authority (AGA). Applications are processed by ALSI. AOFA is a historical name that still appears on many documents but is not a regulator. It was disavowed by the Comorian government and flagged by FATF in 2024. Our verification guide walks through the fifteen-minute protocol for confirming a licence is real before you wire a cent.
The ABC News investigation surfaced operators presenting Anjouan licences that did not exist. The problem is not that Anjouan is illegitimate. The problem is that legitimate AGA-issued licences sit next to a large inventory of forged or stale PDFs.
Planning an Anjouan licensing application?
Free initial consultation. We respond within one business day.