The Anjouan licence and the country list that does not match it

Why that difference costs money

Suppose a payout does not come through and the operator itself is not answering. The next step is then the licensor: the body that issued the licence and that can say something about it. That is the whole reason a licence number is useful — it points to an address.

For these three operators that address is the Anjouan Gaming Board. And that is the body whose standard terms say the player should not have been there. What a complaint is worth in that situation, this site does not know, because this site has not filed that complaint and does not invent the answer. What is certain is that a complaint to a body that designates the complainant's country as a prohibited jurisdiction starts from a different position than a complaint that does not have that problem.

That is no cause for panic and it is not a prediction either. It is a fact you want to have before a deposit, and not after.

What else these three publish

The licence is not the only thing that differs. Of the three, one names a cap on withdrawals that we were able to read: CoinCasino names half a million euros per month in article 9.6. At Empire.io and Rakebit there is nothing in that field — which means we have not read it.

With document checks it runs the other way. Empire.io is the only one of the three that names an amount: article 5.4 states a limit of 2,000 USDT. That is a threshold, and a threshold is something you can lay next to practice afterwards. CoinCasino describes instead an assessment at its own discretion, in articles 5.2 and 9.3. At Rakebit we did find such a discretion clause but could not establish a clause number, and then that field stays empty rather than our inventing a number to go with it.

A difference in direction: in our data CoinCasino has no sportsbook, Empire.io and Rakebit do. Rakebit additionally names fifteen coins, among them BTC, ETH, SOL, LTC, USDT and USDC. For Empire.io and CoinCasino no number of coins is recorded. That, too, is an empty field and not a zero.

What is not in this field

There is also a column that stays empty for these three, and that emptiness means here what it means everywhere on this site: not read.

We were unable to establish a payout period for any of the three — not in days, not in hours, not in minutes. So nowhere does it say that Empire.io, CoinCasino or Rakebit would be fast or slow. Anyone who comes across such figures elsewhere might do well to ask where they come from: from a clause with a clause number, from an actual payout with a date alongside it, or from an earlier comparison site that also had it from hearsay.

The same applies to the starting year and to the question of which law the agreement is judged under. Rakebit has 2024 recorded as its starting year; for Empire.io and CoinCasino there is nothing. About the choice of law in their terms this site makes no statement, because we have not read that clause for all three. What can be said about that question is set out under the applicable law.

Compare the paper, not the flag

A great deal of energy goes online into the question of which offshore licence is "better": Curaçao or Anjouan. That question is largely unanswerable and usually not the question you ought to be asking either.

The useful question is narrower. Is there a number? Does that number appear in the register of the body that issues the licence, or only on the operator's own page? And does the licence itself say anything about your country? For these three operators the answer to the first two questions is yes, and to the third question: yes, and the answer is not to your liking.

For the four operators with a Curaçao OGL number the third question lies differently; what is known about their paper is set out under the Curaçao licence. And for the two operators without any number at all there is nothing whatsoever to say about licence conditions; that is set out under without a licence number.

What holds for all ten, whichever flag is on the paper: none of them appears in the licence register of the Kansspelautoriteit, and none of them therefore falls under the Dutch obligations towards players.