Anjouan B2B Licence 2026: €17,828 Fee or Recognition Route

Most guides to Anjouan only talk about the operator licence, the one that lets a casino take bets. But there is a second permit that gets far less coverage and is quietly becoming a gating requirement across the market: the Anjouan B2B licence, the supplier-side authorisation for the studios, aggregators, platforms and payment vendors that sit behind those operators. The suppliers asking about it do so because their operator clients started demanding a credential before they would integrate.

The register shows the shift. In our weekly mirror of the Anjouan register (Anjouan licence data, snapshot of 20 September 2026), 230 of 1,527 valid licences carry B2B scope, and three in four of them were issued after the supplier requirement took effect on 1 July 2025.

This guide covers what the B2B certificate actually authorises, how it differs from the B2C operator licence, what it costs, how the file runs, and why getting licensed on the supply side has shifted from optional to commercially unavoidable in 2026. The facts here come from running the full Anjouan process for both operators and suppliers.

What the Anjouan B2B licence actually is

Anjouan’s gaming regime runs on a single statute, the Computer Gaming Licensing Act, and that Act covers both the demand side and the supply side of iGaming. The operator (B2C) permit is the well-known one: it lets a company run a casino, sportsbook, poker room or crypto casino for players. The B2B licence authorises the layer beneath that: the companies that build and supply the technology and content the operators run on.

A regulator policy effective 1 July 2025 formalised this as a licensing requirement rather than an amendment to the Act. Before it, suppliers to Anjouan operators sat in a grey area; after it, the Anjouan Betting & Gaming Board (ABGB) requires developers, platform providers, aggregators and payment-technology suppliers serving Anjouan-licensed operators to hold either a direct B2B licence or an approved B2B Recognition Certificate. Crypto-facing supply (payment rails, wallet tech, crypto-native platforms) sits under the same B2B route; the policy did not add crypto-specific rules, and the regulator publishes none.

The distinction that matters commercially: a B2B holder never takes a player deposit. It sells to operators. That single fact changes the risk profile, the banking conversation and the reason you hold the licence in the first place. If you want the operator-side view first, our flagship Anjouan guide covers the B2C permit in full, and the Anjouan gaming licence pillar sets out the regime end to end.

What the register shows: 230 suppliers and counting

We mirror the Anjouan regulator’s public register every week, which lets us check how the supplier requirement has played out rather than repeat what agents say about it. The snapshot of 20 September 2026 lists 1,527 valid licences:

Source: Vantegris weekly mirror of the Anjouan Gaming licence register, snapshot 20 September 2026.

Three things stand out. First, B2B issuance has accelerated: 4 of today’s B2B-scoped licences were issued in 2023, 31 in 2024, 81 in 2025 and 114 in the first nine months of 2026. Across the whole register, 54% of licences post-date July 2025; among B2B-scoped ones, 76% do. The requirement is clearly pulling suppliers in. Second, most suppliers publish a web presence: 147 of the 178 B2B-only entries list at least one domain, usually the studio’s or platform’s corporate site rather than a player-facing casino. Third, Costa Rica shows up on the supply side too: 30 B2B-scoped licensees carry Costa Rican corporate registry numbers (the “3-101” and “3-102” prefixes of a sociedad anónima or limitada) — the same applicant structure we use.

One more reading tip: the register shows licence terms of one to three years, with one year the most common. Whatever the term, the fee schedule treats the €17,828 as due at issuance and at each renewal, so budget it as a recurring cost.

B2C operator licence vs B2B supplier certificate

The two permits share a regulator, an Act, a fee and a due-diligence standard. What separates them is the permitted activity — and therefore who each one is for. This is the comparison suppliers ask us to draw first:

In practice the two permits sit side by side. A company that both builds a platform and runs its own casino can hold both, or a B2C licence with B2B scope added — more on that below.

Who needs a B2B licence — and why operators now demand it

The suppliers that fall inside the July 2025 requirement are broader than most expect:

• Game studios — anyone whose slots, table games or live content run on Anjouan-licensed casinos, especially where proprietary games carry an RNG certificate from a recognised test lab.
• Aggregators and content hubs — the middleware that pipes many studios’ games into an operator’s lobby.
• Platform providers — turnkey and white-label platform vendors whose software an operator brands as its own. If you build these, our white-label casino service and the Anjouan white-label guide show where a supplier licence fits.
• Payment-technology suppliers — PSPs, gateways and crypto-payment vendors providing the rails. The regulator publishes no crypto-specific rulebook, so the AML design of a crypto rail is the supplier’s own to document.

The regulatory requirement is only half the story. The stronger driver is commercial: licensed operators now ask their vendors for a credential before they integrate. A B2C operator that has done the work to appear on the public register does not want an unlicensed supplier in its stack — that supplier becomes a compliance weak point a payment partner or auditor can flag. Suppliers without the licence lose deals to competitors who hold one, and licensed suppliers clear vendor due diligence on the first pass.

What it costs and how the file runs

The headline number is familiar from the operator side: the regulator’s published schedule lists the B2B licence at €17,828, payable at issuance and again on each renewal — identical to the B2C figure. One difference in the supplier’s favour: the €500 fee per extra domain applies to B2C licences only, so a studio or platform does not pay per URL. The schedule also notes that amendments, domain changes and replacement certificates carry administrative fees quoted at the time of request, and that application fees are non-refundable. On top of the official fee sit the service costs any real application needs: the applicant company, document drafting, compliance policies and regulator liaison. For a full breakdown of how the official fee separates from provider mark-up, the Anjouan licence cost guide applies to suppliers as much as operators.

A crucial structural point for suppliers: you do not incorporate in Anjouan and you do not need any presence on the island. As with the operator route, we set up the applicant company in Costa Rica and file through an agent, with no local office, resident director or on-island staff needed. That keeps the supply-side entity clean and portable, which matters when your clients sit across multiple markets. The tax posture is the same 0% on gaming revenue that makes the operator licence attractive, though how a supplier’s fees are taxed depends on where your holding structure is resident, which is a structuring question rather than a feature of the permit.

The B2B application: structure, timeline and compliance

Mechanically, a supplier file runs like the operator one, and lands in the same 4–8 week end-to-end window when the paperwork is right the first time. The requirements track the operator process documented in the Anjouan requirements guide: certified passports and proof of address for every UBO, director and key person; source-of-funds evidence; corporate documents for the applying entity; and AML/KYC policies drafted to the regulator’s expectations. Every shareholder and beneficial owner must clear sanctions screening and show a clean history — the due diligence is not lighter because you are a supplier.

Two things are specific to the supply side. First, content and technology certification: proprietary games need an RNG certificate from a recognised lab, and platform or payment technology should be documented to the standard the ABGB expects at application. Second, the crypto layer: if you supply payment or platform technology that moves virtual assets, document how it handles FATF Travel Rule data and wallet screening. Anjouan publishes no crypto-specific rules, but operator clients and their PSPs will ask.

The step that slips timelines is document readiness rather than regulator speed: one incomplete UBO file or one policy that needs redrafting adds a week per round. Because suppliers frequently hold both a supplier and an operator credential, we structure the Costa Rica applicant entity once and map the licence scope to what you actually do, rather than filing two applications from scratch. If your model spans building a platform and running your own brand, settle the licence scope before filing so one application covers both activities, and see the launch checklist for the full sequence from incorporation to live.

Is a Recognition Certificate enough?

The July 2025 requirement offers suppliers two routes: a full B2B licence or an approved B2B Recognition Certificate. The regulator launched the recognition programme in June 2025 for providers “already licensed in well-regarded jurisdictions”, naming Malta, the Isle of Man, Romania and Sweden among them, and it keeps a public register of the recognition letters it grants. A recognised supplier may supply platforms, content and software to Anjouan B2C licensees without holding a local B2B licence.

The €9,500 figure comes from industry guides rather than the regulator’s published schedule, so confirm it with the Authority before you budget around it. The certificate is the lighter-touch acknowledgement for suppliers that already hold a credible credential elsewhere; the full licence is the standalone authorisation. Which one fits depends on what you already hold and what your operator clients will accept in their vendor due diligence — some ask specifically for a direct licence rather than a recognition. We assess that on the facts of each supplier rather than defaulting to one route, and where a supplier is starting cold, the full licence is usually the cleaner answer. You can compare the wider field of gaming permits on the gaming licences hub if you are weighing Anjouan against a Tier-1 supplier regime.

Anjouan is the low-cost end of the supply-side field. If you are comparing B2B gaming supplier licences across jurisdictions rather than looking at Anjouan specifically (Malta’s critical gaming supply licence, Curaçao’s B2B route, the Isle of Man or Alderney’s Category 2), start with which jurisdiction fits a B2B supplier licence and our B2B gaming supplier licence service. The sister guides on the Malta B2B gaming licence and the Curaçao B2B gaming licence cover the two most common alternatives.

If you build the technology behind online casinos and your operator clients have started asking for a credential, those clients now treat the supply-side licence as part of the commercial terms. We run the full Anjouan B2B file end to end, structure the applicant company in Costa Rica, and can add B2C scope where you need both. Book a free consultation and we’ll map the right licence scope to what you actually supply, with the official fee and our service cost shown separately.

Iryna H.

Gaming Licensing at Vantegris

Iryna H. is part of the Vantegris team, which prepares and files licence applications across 40+ jurisdictions. This article was reviewed by Vladyslav S. (Compliance & Legal).

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