Licence check: CBC Group LTD and the Anjouan seal
This page checks one licence rather than explaining licensing in general: the one the operator this site writes about actually holds. Every figure below comes from the regulator’s own validation page or from the operator’s published terms, read on 2 October 2026.
Who holds the licence, and the second company behind the money
The licensee is CBC Group Ltd, registration number 15700, registered at PO Box 1212, Hamchako, Mutsamudu, Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of Comoros. It operates under licence No. ALSI-202409014-FI1, issued by the Offshore Finance Authority of the State of Anjouan under the Computer Gaming Licensing Act 007 of 2005, with compliance supervised by Anjouan Licensing Services Inc. The regulator’s validation page returned status VALID on 2 October 2026 and lists one registered website: driftspin.com.
Payments are handled by a different legal entity in a different country: CBC Group LP, registration number LP024103, Suite 7030, 128 Aldersgate Street, Barbican, London EC1A 4AE, England. That split is normal in this market and worth knowing: the company that holds your gaming account and the company that moves your money are not the same, and the Anjouan licence covers the first, not the second.
The excluded territories — and the contradiction they create
An Anjouan licence does not apply everywhere. The regulator names the exclusions explicitly on the validation page:
| Category | Excluded |
|---|---|
| Named territories | Australia, Comoros, France, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, USA |
| International watchlists | All FATF-blacklisted and sanctioned jurisdictions |
| Other | Any territory the Anjouan Offshore Financial Authority deems excluded |
The consequence is stated in the regulator’s own words: participation from those territories is prohibited, players accessing the site from them do so at their own risk, and any dispute or complaint from a player situated there falls entirely outside the regulatory scope of the licence and will not be entertained.
Read that against the operator’s registration form, which on 2 October 2026 offered exactly two countries of residence — Portugal and Spain — and one currency, the euro. Spain is on the excluded list. A Spanish resident can therefore open an account through the form while the licence behind that account does not extend to them, and the regulator says in advance that it will not hear their complaint. France is excluded too, which is worth stating plainly on a site that publishes a French edition. The country list may vary by the location it is requested from; this is what it returned from ours, on that date.
Three licence obligations, checked against what is published
The validation page lists what the operator must maintain to keep the licence active. Two of the three can be checked against the operator’s own documents; one cannot be confirmed at all.
| Obligation | What is published | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Independent ADR service, used after the internal complaints process | Clause 31.4 refers only to «the 3rd party dispute resolution» with no name, address or scheme. Clause 31.8 states that a casino dispute cannot be filed with the Anjouan Gaming Commission, but with «the regulator or the dispute resolution party of the casino provider» — also unnamed. | Required but not identified |
| AML protocols and working responsible-gaming tools, including self-exclusion and deposit limits | Clause 2.12: daily, weekly and monthly deposit limits set in the account area, changes taking effect after 24 hours, plus self-exclusion for a fixed period. | Published and specific |
| Certified random number generators in all games | A licence condition. The operator does not publish testing-laboratory names; individual games state their configured RTP in the in-game information screen. | Verifiable per game, not site-wide |
The first row is the one that matters if something goes wrong. A licence requires an independent dispute service; the published terms point at an unnamed third party and rule out the gaming commission itself. In practice that leaves the internal complaints process, a six-month deadline, and no published address for an external appeal.
Payout rules the licence does not guarantee
Licensing says nothing about how fast or in what size winnings are paid. Those are contract terms, and this operator publishes them:
- Winnings above €15,000 are not paid at once. Clause 3.2: payment is made in instalments over a period of up to three months, and the maximum paid out in any month is €50,000.
- Unverified accounts cannot withdraw at all. Clauses 3.4 and 3.15: without identification a deposit is capped at €3,000 and no withdrawal is possible. Winnings themselves are capped at €1,000 on a one-click account and €5,000 on a confirmed one.
- A deposit has to be played through before it can leave. Clause 3.3: the deposited amount must be staked once in full at odds of at least 1.3, or five times in full in the casino.
- Withdrawals may carry administrative costs (clause 3.16), and only to a card or account in the holder’s own name.
- Dormant accounts are charged and eventually emptied. No login or bet for 12 months makes an account inactive and triggers a €5 monthly maintenance fee; after a further 12 months the operator reserves the right to close the account and seize the remaining balance, with a stated right to ask support to recover seized funds.
- Claims expire in six months. Clause 31.1: a claim about a transaction must be raised within six months, and the operator reserves the right not to consider later ones.
How to check any of this yourself
- Open the seal on the operator’s footer. A real seal links to the regulator’s validation page and that page carries the domain it was issued for — if the domain in the address does not match the site you are on, the seal proves nothing.
- Read the status line and the registered websites. A licence listing a different domain than the one you are playing on is a different product.
- Find the excluded territories and look for your own country. If it is there, the regulator has already said your complaint is out of scope.
- Search the terms for the words «dispute resolution» and check whether an actual scheme is named. An unnamed third party is not a route of appeal.
- Note the figures that affect your money before depositing: the verification thresholds, the winnings caps, the playthrough rule and the instalment limit above €15,000.
This is an independent review site. It holds no gaming licence, takes no deposits and runs no games; it is paid through affiliate links, which is why the figures above are quoted with their clause numbers and the date they were read.
Frequently asked questions
Is the licence real?
Yes. Licence No. ALSI-202409014-FI1 is held by CBC Group Ltd and the regulator’s validation page returned status VALID on 2 October 2026, listing driftspin.com as the registered website. Real and limited are different things: the same page excludes seven named territories.
Can I play from Spain or France?
Both are on the licence’s excluded list, and the regulator states that complaints from excluded territories will not be entertained. Spain is nevertheless one of only two countries the registration form offered on 2 October 2026, which is a contradiction worth knowing before depositing.
Who do I complain to if the operator refuses a payout?
The published terms give you the internal complaints process and a six-month deadline. They refer to an unnamed «3rd party dispute resolution» and state that a casino dispute cannot be filed with the Anjouan Gaming Commission, so no external address is published.
Why would a €20,000 win arrive in pieces?
Because clause 3.2 says so: anything above €15,000 is paid in instalments over up to three months, with a ceiling of €50,000 per month. It is a contract term, not a licence requirement.
Does the licence mean the games are fair?
It requires certified random number generators, which is meaningful. It does not publish which laboratory certified which game — the per-game information screen, with its configured RTP, is the closest thing to a check you can run yourself.