Malta Gaming Authority: The Register We Have Not Mirrored Yet
A Maltese licence is the second regulator worth taking seriously in this market: a public verification tool, a working complaints procedure and rules that bind the operator rather than describe it. We do not mirror this register yet, and this page says so plainly rather than implying a coverage we do not have.
Nothing — and that is the honest answer
We do not mirror this register. There is no bulk dataset to copy, so anything we published here would have no source URL, no fetch date, no row count and no checksum behind it — the four things that make the figures on our UKGC page checkable rather than assertable.
Until that changes, an operator naming this regulator on our site is making a claim, and it is labelled as a claim. Verify one yourself on the authority's own tool.
What a Maltese licence obliges an operator to do
Operators we matched to this register
This is a verification table, not a recommendation. The ranked list of casinos holding a British licence is its own page; here you are looking at the state of the match.
On this build the catalogue is demonstration data — fictional brands match no real register, which is exactly what our licence tool reports for them. When real operators replace them, an unmatched domain keeps a casino out of every ranked list on this site.
Why this page exists before the mirror does
A large share of the operators serving European players hold Maltese rather than British licences, so leaving the regulator undocumented would misrepresent the market. Publishing a page while stating that our mirror is empty is the honest version of covering it.
The practical difference for a reader is this: for the UK register we can tell you what our copy holds and when we pulled it. For Malta we can tell you what the licence means and where to check it yourself, and nothing more. Those are different levels of service, and blurring them would be the same trick we criticise elsewhere on this site.
Until the mirror exists, an operator naming the MGA in its licence line is making a claim we have not independently verified, and it is labelled as a claim wherever it appears here.
What is actually harder about this register
The UK Commission publishes bulk CSV files: businesses, licences, domains and trading names, updated daily and downloadable in one request. That is what makes a mirror with a row count and a checksum possible at all.
Malta publishes a verification tool rather than a bulk dataset. It answers "is this operator licensed" one query at a time, which is the right design for a consumer and the wrong shape for a mirror. Building one means either a different agreement or a very different method, and doing it badly would produce a dataset whose provenance we could not state — the opposite of the point.
So this is a known gap with a known cause, sitting on our backlog next to the Curaçao register, which has the same problem in a harder form.
How the two regimes differ where it affects you
Both regulators run public verification and both have complaints machinery that can bind an operator, which puts them in a different class from most alternatives. The differences are in strictness rather than in existence.
Great Britain requires identity verification before a deposit, bans credit card gambling outright, mandates participation in a single national self-exclusion scheme, and constrains advertising tightly. Malta applies EU anti-money-laundering rules and its own audit regime, but has no GAMSTOP equivalent, and its advertising and payment rules are looser.
For a player in Britain, that makes a UK licence the stronger protection, and it is why our licence gate is currently built on the register we can actually mirror. For a player elsewhere in Europe, a Maltese licence is frequently the most meaningful one available.
Checking a Maltese licence yourself today
The Authority's verification page is public and takes about a minute.
- Find the licence number in the operator's footer, then ignore the logo next to it.
- Enter the number in the Authority's own verification tool rather than trusting a third-party summary, including this one.
- Confirm the licensee name matches the company named in the site's terms and conditions, not merely the brand.
- Check the licence status and the authorised activities — a licence covering one activity does not cover every product on the site.
What an MGA licence means for a player in Britain
A Malta licence is a real regulatory regime with real obligations, and it is not a permission to accept British customers. Anyone offering remote gambling to consumers in Great Britain needs a Gambling Commission licence, whatever else they hold.
That distinction has practical consequences rather than merely legal ones. A British licence brings a national self-exclusion scheme that covers every licensed operator at once, an alternative dispute resolution provider whose decisions bind the operator, statutory stake limits on online slots, and a regulator that publishes what it finds when an operator fails. A Malta licence brings a different set of protections, administered elsewhere, with no route into any of those British mechanisms.
So an MGA badge on a site accepting British players is not reassurance — it is the wrong badge for the market. The check that settles it is the domain lookup in the UK register, and a site that fails that check is unlicensed here regardless of what else appears in its footer.
None of which is a criticism of the Malta authority. It is a statement about which regulator can help you, which depends on where you are rather than on which logo is larger.