UKGC Licensed Casinos & Betting Sites

The operator holds an active authorisation from the UK Gambling Commission for the activities it offers, for example remote casino or remote betting, which are licensed separately. It puts the operator under the Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice: identity checks, anti-money-laundering controls, responsible gambling requirements and advertising standards. It is a regulatory status, not a quality rating.

Search the legal company name, not the brand name, on the Commission’s public register. A brand is often a trading name for a different registered company, and matching the two is the step people most often skip. Our checker does the same lookup against our own verified records; confirm on the register before you rely on it.

Because the licence belongs to the company, not the brand. White-label operators run many brands on one platform and one licence, so the register lists each brand as a domain under a single account. The “Who holds the licence” section on this page groups the brands in our directory by licence holder.

No. “Licence reference not recorded” means the number isn’t captured in our database yet. We only mark a brand UKGC authorised once it is linked to a genuine Commission record; the number is an extra detail added when the source shows it. The operator’s footer or the public register will have it.

Yes. Remote authorisations are granted per activity. A brand can hold a casino authorisation and have no betting authorisation, or the reverse, which is why the directory lets you filter by product.

GAMSTOP is the UK’s national self-exclusion scheme: register once and you are blocked from every participating UK-licensed site for a chosen period. Participation is a condition of holding a UKGC remote licence, not an optional extra.

Alternative Dispute Resolution is an independent, regulator-approved route for a complaint the operator hasn’t resolved. If it remains unresolved after 8 weeks, the operator must refer you to an approved ADR provider, at no cost to you.

The Commission is phasing in gross deposit limits and credit-reference-based financial risk checks at set thresholds. Deadlines and scope have shifted during the rollout, so we don’t print fixed dates here; the Commission’s own guidance has the current position.

Not in the way it covers Great Britain. The Gambling Act 2005 applies to England, Scotland and Wales, and gambling regulation is devolved in Northern Ireland. The one overlap: advertising remote gambling into Northern Ireland without a UKGC remote licence is an offence under the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014.

Yes. The Commission can suspend, revoke or add conditions to a licence, and publishes regulatory actions and fines. That’s why every listing here carries a verified date. Treat it as the date we last confirmed the record, not a guarantee that it still stands.

No. It puts an operator inside a regulatory framework with real enforcement behind it, which is very different from none, but licensed operators still vary in payout speed, support and bonus terms, and gambling always carries financial risk. Use the licence as one checkable fact, and our Trust Index for the wider picture.