License Index · updated weekly

Live licence
registry data

We pull every public register the high-risk industry runs on — straight from the regulators, normalised, and refreshed every week. The numbers below are not estimates: they are the official registries themselves, tracked over time. Free to cite with attribution.

8,927 licences tracked
7,324 currently active
14 official registers
Weekly updated 2026-07-19

Analysis & enforcement

Gaming licence registers

Crypto licence registers

Where there's no register to track

Not every regulator publishes one. Some of the jurisdictions we work in disclose no machine-readable licensee list — or no public register at all — so there is nothing here to mirror. We name them for transparency, and we add a register the moment one appears:

  • Gibraltar — the Gambling Division publishes only aggregate operator counts, not a named licensee list.
  • Costa Rica — no gaming regulator exists; operators run under a general data-processing permit, so there is no gaming register to publish.
  • Panama, Tuvalu, Nevis — licences are issued, but no public online register is maintained.
  • Malta (MGA) — a full register exists and is tracked here; it's captured from the regulator's own portal rather than a downloadable feed, so it refreshes on a slower cadence than the daily/weekly sources.

Regulator, know of a public register we're missing? Tell us and we'll add it.

Methodology & reuse

Every dataset on these pages is pulled directly from the regulator's own public register — no third-party aggregators, no manual copying. An automated pipeline fetches each source weekly, normalises company names, licence numbers, types and dates into one schema, and records what was added or removed since the previous pull. Where a register publishes less (some list only company names), we track exactly what the regulator discloses, nothing more.

The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 — cite "Vantegris License Index" with a link to this page. Journalists and researchers: every dataset has a machine-readable JSON download on its page, and we can provide historical snapshots on request via contact. Every compiled snapshot carries an edition stamp — this release is VGX-9NZV-1QT8 — so any figure you cite can be traced back to the exact pull it came from.

Registries change between our weekly pulls and licence status can vary over time — always verify a specific operator against the regulator's own register before relying on it. These overviews create no rights.