Licensing
What a licence is actually worth.
A licence logo in a footer is the most abused image in this industry. These pages cover what each regulator really obliges an operator to do for you, where each one stops, and how to check any claim against the register behind it.
UK Gambling Commission
Great Britain runs one of the strictest online gambling regimes in the world, and most of what a player can actually rely on comes from the licence conditions the Commission enforces rather than from operator goodwill.
JurisdictionGreat Britain
UK Gambling CommissionMalta Gaming Authority
Malta turned gambling regulation into a national industry two decades ago, and the MGA licence became the default for operators serving Europe. It carries real protections, and knowing where they stop matters as much as knowing they exist.
JurisdictionMalta
Malta Gaming AuthorityCuraçao (CGA)
For thirty years Curaçao was the licence a site bought when it wanted the word licensed without the obligations. A 2024 law replaced that system entirely, and the honest answer today is: better on paper, still the lightest regime on this list.
JurisdictionCuraçao
Curaçao (CGA)GGL (Germany)
Germany legalised online slots in 2021 and wrapped them in the tightest constraints of any major market: capped deposits across all operators at once, capped stakes per spin, and a shared exclusion system. Whether that protects players or drives them to unlicensed sites is the live debate; the rules themselves are clear.
JurisdictionGermany
GGL (Germany)DGOJ (Spain)
Spain licensed online gambling in 2011 and has spent the years since tightening it, most visibly around advertising. The result is one of Europe's more protective national regimes, with a self-exclusion register that actually covers everything licensed.
JurisdictionSpain
DGOJ (Spain)ANJ (France)
France licenses online sports betting, horse racing and poker, and prohibits online casino games entirely. Every site offering slots or roulette to French players is illegal there, whatever licence its footer shows, and that single fact reorganises everything else on this page.
JurisdictionFrance
ANJ (France)SPA (Brazil)
Brazil went from grey market to licensed system on 1 January 2025, and built the simplest licence check anywhere: every authorised operator runs on a .bet.br domain. Everything outside that domain is unlicensed, which makes the address bar the regulator's first line.
JurisdictionBrazil
SPA (Brazil)
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