A licence badge in a website footer is a claim. The regulator's register is the evidence. Checking one against the other usually takes a few minutes, once you know where each regulator keeps its list and what it chooses to show.
We check licences for every supplier we profile, and so far that comes to 439 licence records across more than 20 regulators. This guide is the practical version of that work: where to look for the main B2B licensing authorities, what you will see there, and the traps that catch people out.
If you are new to reading register entries, start with our shorter guide on how to read a regulator's licence register. This one goes regulator by regulator.
Before you search: get the legal entity
Registers list licence holders by their legal name, not their trading brand. Of the 199 licensed suppliers on Gamitas, 51 hold their licence through an entity whose name looks nothing like the brand on their website. Search the brand and you will often find nothing, even when the licence is real.
So the first step is always the same: find the registered company name, usually in the website's terms, privacy policy or imprint, and search that. If the supplier will not tell you which entity holds the licence, treat that as your answer.
Where the regulators publish, at a glance
| Regulator | How to search | Licence number shown | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Gambling Commission | Searchable public register, plus downloadable CSV files of all businesses and licences | Yes, with an R (remote) or N (non-remote) in the middle | The account number and the licence number are different things; check the activity, e.g. Gambling Software |
| Malta Gaming Authority | Licensee register on the MGA website | Yes, e.g. MGA/B2B/123/2019 | B2B covers several licence types; check it says Critical Gaming Supply if you are buying a platform or games |
| Curaçao Gaming Authority | Licence registry published as a PDF, plus an individual certificate page for each licence | Yes, e.g. OGL/2024/… or CGA/2025/… | Each certificate says B2B or B2C; a B2C licence does not let a company supply other operators |
| Spelinspektionen (Sweden) | Licence register on the regulator's site, exportable to Excel | No number on the public register | Supplier licences appear as gaming software (Spelprogramvara); check the validity dates |
| Isle of Man GSC | Online gambling licensee register, plus a downloadable spreadsheet | No number published | Supplier licences are listed as Software Supply |
| AGCO (Ontario) | Look-up of registered operators and suppliers | Registration details per entry | No downloadable list; search by legal name |
| HGC (Greece) | Public registers of manufacturers and suppliers on the certifications portal | Registration code, e.g. HGC-000012-MN | Status is not always shown; note the category on each entry |
UK Gambling Commission
The Commission's public register is the most complete of the lot. Search by business name or account number and you get every licence the business holds, its status and the activities each licence covers. For bulk checks it also publishes the whole register as downloadable CSV files.
Two details matter. A licence number such as 000-039124-R-319929-009 contains the account number in its first block, and the R marks a remote licence. And a supplier's licence will list activities like Gambling Software or Gaming Machine Technical; if what you are buying is not covered by the listed activity, the licence does not cover your deal.
Malta Gaming Authority
The MGA's licensee register lists each licence with its holder, number, type and status. Supplier licences carry B2B in the number, for example MGA/B2B/616/2019. You may also see corporate licences and Recognition Notices, which the MGA issues to companies already licensed elsewhere in the European Economic Area.
The register runs as a web application, so give it a moment to load, and search the legal entity rather than the brand. Groups often hold the licence in one Maltese company and trade through several brands.
Curaçao Gaming Authority
Curaçao moved to a new licensing framework under the National Ordinance on Games of Chance, and licences issued under it carry numbers starting OGL or CGA. The regulator publishes a licence registry as a PDF. The edition dated 2 June 2026 lists 657 licences, and only 87 of them are B2B.
Each licence also has a certificate page on the regulator's portal, which states the holder, its company number, the date licensed, the licence number, whether it is B2B or B2C, and the current status. That certificate is the thing to check, because the PDF does not always reflect later changes. In our checks a few licences listed as B2B in the registry turned out to be B2C or withdrawn on the certificate.
A small trap. Certificate links on the portal end in an ID number. In our testing, IDs written with a leading zero returned "not found", while the same number without the zero loaded the certificate. If a supplier's link fails, try removing the zero before concluding the licence is gone.
Our Curaçao compliance page explains the framework in more detail.
Spelinspektionen (Sweden)
Sweden's register lists every licence holder with the licence type and validity period, and the whole register can be exported to Excel. Suppliers hold gaming software licences, listed in Swedish as Spelprogramvara. The public register does not show a licence number, so record the holder name, licence type and the dates when you file your evidence.
Isle of Man, Ontario, Greece and the US states
The Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission publishes a list of online gambling licence holders as a spreadsheet; suppliers appear under Software Supply, without a licence number. Ontario's AGCO lets you look up registered suppliers one at a time but offers no downloadable list. Greece's Hellenic Gaming Commission publishes registers of manufacturers and suppliers with a registration code for each.
In the United States each state runs its own system. New Jersey publishes a report of active vendors, Pennsylvania publishes lists of eligible manufacturers and suppliers, and Michigan publishes its licensees as a spreadsheet. The format varies, but the principle is the same: search the legal entity, and check the licence type covers what you are buying.
What our licence checks look like
Across all suppliers on Gamitas, the UK Gambling Commission and the MGA account for more than half of the licence records we hold. Romania, Sweden, Curaçao, Greece and Ontario follow.
Not every record could be confirmed at source. Where a regulator publishes a register and we could match the entry, we mark the licence as independently verified and link to it. Where the only evidence is the supplier's own statement or a trade report, we say so.
We explain how these levels work on our How we verify page.
A five-minute check you can repeat
- Get the legal entity and the licence number. From the supplier, in writing.
- Open the regulator's register yourself. Go to the regulator's own site; do not follow a link from the supplier's website.
- Search the legal name, then the number. If neither finds anything, ask the supplier which entity holds the licence.
- Check four fields. The holder's name, the status, the licence type or activities, and the dates.
- Save the evidence. A screenshot or PDF of the entry with the date you checked. Registers change, and your file should show what you saw.
When a regulator publishes nothing. Some markets have no public supplier register at all. Our article on how many regulators publish a licence register found that only 26 of the 70 regulators we track do. In those markets, ask the supplier for the licence document itself and confirm it with the regulator by email.
- UK Gambling Commission, public register
- Malta Gaming Authority, licensee register
- Curaçao Gaming Authority, licence certificate portal
- Spelinspektionen, licence register
- Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission, online gambling licensee register
- Curaçao Gaming Authority, Online Gaming License Registry (2 June 2026)
