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Who publishes this site

Anjouan License Guide is a publication of ICOS Consulting — a consultancy specialising in iGaming regulatory strategy, licensing, and ongoing compliance. We advise operators on jurisdiction selection, manage license applications end-to-end, and retain on ongoing compliance engagements after issuance. We do not issue licenses. We do not sell licenses. We work for operators, not regulators.

Across the firm we have worked with licensing regimes in Malta, Curaçao, Anjouan, Kahnawake, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, the UK, Nigeria, Ghana, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and a long tail of smaller jurisdictions. We have no commercial relationship with any licensing authority and earn no referral fees from regulators.

Why we built this resource

Two things prompted this site. First, operators evaluating Anjouan consistently could not find clear, sourced, independent information on the jurisdiction. The available material was either marketing copy from license-sellers or dismissive hit pieces that lumped legitimate operators in with forged-license scams. Neither helped a founder make a reasoned decision.

Second, the fake-license ecosystem — the inventory of forged Anjouan PDFs circulating in the market — was under-covered in accessible, operator-facing material. The ABC News investigation drew public attention but left most readers with the impression that Anjouan licensing is simply fraudulent. The accurate picture is more specific: real licenses exist, fake ones exist, and the distinction between them is easy to confirm if you know what to check.

This site is that check. Our verification guide is the single most important page on the site — it's the protocol we run before recommending any Anjouan-licensed operator to a commercial counterparty.

How we source content

Every number cited on this site — fees, timelines, capital requirements — is drawn from one of three sources: published consultant fee schedules, public regulator communications, or operator cases we have directly advised on. We update quarterly against the fee schedules of competitor consultants and against our own active casework. Where figures are indicative rather than fixed, we note the range and say so.

Pages are dated. The "Last updated" badge near the top of every guide page is not decorative — it reflects when the page was last reviewed against current market conditions. If a page is older than six months, treat its specific numbers with a grain of salt; the structure usually holds.

What this site is not

This site provides educational and decision-support information. It is not legal advice. It is not regulatory authorisation. It is not a substitute for formal counsel on your specific circumstances. Where we recommend a course of action — apply under Anjouan rather than Curaçao, say — that recommendation reflects general experience, not a fiduciary opinion on your business.

If you need formal advice, that is what our consulting engagement is for. If you want to read and decide on your own, that is what this site is for.

Other ICOS resources

Our main site at icos.consulting covers the full consultancy offering. The iGaming Compliance Blog publishes our longer-form analysis on regulatory developments across all the jurisdictions we work in.