Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands maintains a blanket statutory prohibition on gaming and gambling under 31 MIRC Ch.4, the Gaming and Recreation Prohibition Act 1998, which permits no commercial licensing pathway of any kind. The only lawful gambling-adjacent activity is a narrow, locally administered permit that government councils may issue for one-off, non-profit bingo, raffle, or cakewalk events. No dedicated gambling regulator sits atop this framework; enforcement runs instead through national and local police acting on statutory powers. The Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering's Mutual Evaluation Report, published in November 2024, is the only secondary corroboration available for this baseline, and it independently confirms that no casinos operate in the jurisdiction. Taken together, the statute and the Mutual Evaluation Report describe a closed-market jurisdiction with a thin public record, where the prohibition's reach into online and maritime channels is read in by evaluators rather than stated in the Act's own text.

Affiliate marketing and advertising of gambling products fall within the same general prohibition that governs gambling activity itself under 31 MIRC Ch.4: processing or facilitating gambling-related activity for Marshall Islands-facing customers carries exposure under sections 402 and 404, and the statute provides no registration, carve-out, or safe-harbour regime specific to affiliates, advertising networks, or app-store distribution of gambling products. There is no distribution-platform rule, ISP-blocking instrument, search-de-listing mechanism, or payment-provider platform restriction specific to gambling beyond the general prohibition's reach. An affiliate or distribution platform reaching Marshall Islands-connected customers should accordingly be read as falling within the same exposure as a payment processor or operator servicing the same flows, given the absence of any carve-out distinguishing intermediary roles from direct operation under the statute.