Guernsey — Alderney

Alderney's licensing framework offers four routes: the Category 1 licence and Category 2 licence under the Ordinance 2009 and Regulations 2009, a Temporary eGambling Licence capped at twenty-nine continuous days or fifty-nine aggregate days within a six-month period before a full application is required within forty-two days, and a Category 1/2 Associate Certificate for a foreign entity already associated with an existing licensee, which an Alderney company cannot itself hold unless it also holds a Category 1 or 2 licence. The Alderney Gambling Control Commission administers all four routes, though the Commission's own guidance states that the Greffier of the States of Alderney, not AGCC, is the official legislative source, with AGCC-hosted texts standing as convenience copies. Guernsey's financial-crime lead has joined AGCC as a new Commissioner, a change the Commission itself frames as a governance transition rather than a shift in licensing policy.

Market entry proceeds via a Category 1 licence, a Category 2 licence, a Temporary eGambling Licence, or a Category 1/2 Associate Certificate for a foreign entity already associated with an existing licensee. Entry under the substantive licences is gated by the Regulation 243 capital-adequacy test: cash held must exceed player balances, current assets must exceed current liabilities, and total assets must exceed total liabilities by at least twenty-five per cent.

Alderney does not run a separate general-consumer ADR scheme for gambling complaints; instead, AGCC itself functions as the escalation body. A player must raise a complaint with the licensee first, and if the complaint is unresolved may lodge a formal complaint with the AGCC Commission under Regulation 238.

AGCC holds a financial-penalty power, set out in the Regulations' fee and penalty table, capped at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds or ten per cent of turnover, whichever is greater. No publicly searchable enforcement-action register sits alongside that power, and no named fine, suspension or revocation against an Alderney licensee has been identified, leaving the statutory ceiling clear while the pattern of its actual use is not independently visible from a public record.

No correspondent-banking disruption, payment-processor deplatforming pattern, FATF typology citation, or adverse advisory has been identified against Alderney. That absence of an adverse signal sits alongside the Council of Europe's MONEYVAL evaluation of Guernsey's AML/CFT framework, which returned a positive assessment that AGCC itself welcomed.

Alderney's AML/CFT stack sits beneath the Bailiwick-level framework and was recently extended by the Alderney eGambling (Proliferation Financing etc.) Regulations 2024, together with accompanying 2024 and 2025 Amendment Ordinances, which add information-gathering and information-sharing powers and proliferation-financing obligations onto the 2009 licensing framework.

AGCC requires all eGambling equipment to receive pre-launch approval under the Regulations, and reviews a licensee's internal control systems before go-live. This places a technical-certification gate ahead of commercial launch: a Category 1 or Category 2 licensee must clear its platform, equipment and internal control systems with the Commission before taking the product live, rather than certifying on a post-launch or self-certification basis.

Alderney licensees carry ongoing technical and operational obligations tied to the Category 1/2 structure. AGCC requires all eGambling equipment to receive pre-launch approval under the Regulations, and reviews internal control systems before go-live, so a licensee must have its platform and systems cleared by the Commission ahead of launch rather than on a post-launch basis.

Alderney's licence-fee table bands cost to net gaming yield. A first-year Category 1 licence costs seventeen thousand five hundred pounds for a genuinely new entrant, rising to thirty-five thousand pounds for an application that does not meet that criterion. Renewal fees run from thirty-five thousand pounds for operators below five hundred thousand pounds of net gaming yield up to four hundred thousand pounds for operators at or above thirty million pounds of net gaming yield.

AGCC's own homepage cites an undated figure of more than ten hosting facilities and more than seventy licences and certificates in issue, a figure the source itself frames as approximate rather than a dated register extract. Named licensees operating under the framework include Bayroc (Alderney) Limited, Greentube Alderney Limited, Kambi Sports Solutions (Alderney) Limited, Marathon Alderney Limited, Playtech Software (Alderney) Ltd and Stanleybet Compliance Services Limited.

A consultation addressing information-gathering and information-sharing powers and proliferation financing has concluded into the Alderney eGambling (Proliferation Financing etc.) Regulations 2024, together with accompanying 2024 and 2025 Amendment Ordinances. That transition from consultation to enacted instrument represents the completed reform item on Alderney's near-term horizon, layering additional information-gathering and reporting obligations onto the 2009 licensing framework without altering the underlying licence categories themselves.