International Casino List: Licensed Casinos Compared (October 2026)

International Casino List is a directory of online casinos licensed outside the Nordic countries, with the data a player needs before signing up: licence and licence number, the company behind each brand, minimum deposit, withdrawal processing times, account currencies and the countries each casino refuses. All figures on this page were checked against the operators’ own terms and the regulators’ registers on 6 and 7 October 2026.

The list below ranks the casinos we currently track for players in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Every one of them holds a licence from the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA), the Estonian Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) or the Anjouan gaming regulator. None holds a Swedish, Norwegian, Danish or Finnish licence, and the legal notes further down explain what that means for you.

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   SP

   Slot Pony

   Up to EUR 1,500 + 777 free spins over 6 deposits (100% up to EUR 500 on the 1st)

   • MGA licence (EU)
   • Lowest casino wagering in the directory: 35x/30x
   • Wager-free free spins

   ★ 4.6/5 · Licence: Malta Gaming Authority MGA/B2C/1055/2024 (Elmst Limited, Malta)

   Visit site18+. Min deposit EUR 20. Wagering 35x on the 1st bonus, 30x on the 3rd and 5th (deposit + bonus). Max bet EUR 5. Bonus must be wagered within 48 hours. Free spins have no wagering, winnings capped at EUR 1,000 per stage. Max conversion 5x bonus. Live casino and table games do not count. Welcome offer not available in Finland. T&Cs apply.
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   Slot Owl

   Up to EUR 1,500 over 4 deposits (100% up to EUR 500 on the 1st)

   • Estonian EMTA licence (EU)
   • 25x wagering on all four deposit bonuses
   • Casino and sportsbook

   ★ 4.5/5 · Licence: Estonian Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) HKT000082/HKT000083 (Frenwall Limited, Malta)

   Visit site21+ for casino games under the T&Cs. Min deposit EUR 20. Wagering 25x (deposit + bonus). Max bet EUR 5. 48 hours to wager. Max conversion 5x bonus. Jeton, MiFinity, Neteller and Skrill deposits do not qualify. Not available in Finland. T&Cs apply.
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   TV

   Taste Vegas

   Up to EUR 1,500 + 1,500 free spins over 6 deposits (100% up to EUR 500 on the 1st)

   • MGA licence (EU)
   • 1,500 wager-free free spins
   • Phone-number sign-up

   ★ 4.5/5 · Licence: Malta Gaming Authority MGA/B2C/1072/2024 (Elvel Limited, Malta)

   Visit site18+. Min deposit EUR 20. Wagering 45x on the 1st bonus, 35x on the 3rd and 5th (deposit + bonus). Max bet EUR 5. Bonus must be wagered within 48 hours. Free spins have no wagering, winnings capped at EUR 1,000 per stage. Max conversion 5x bonus. Live casino and table games do not count. Welcome offer not available in Finland. T&Cs apply.
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   Jackpot Cow

   Up to EUR 2,000 over 4 deposits (100% up to EUR 500 on the 1st)

   • Estonian EMTA licence (EU)
   • Largest match package on the list: EUR 2,000
   • Instant bank transfer deposits

   ★ 4.4/5 · Licence: Estonian Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) HKT000082/HKT000083 (Frenwall Limited, Malta)

   Visit site21+ for casino games under the T&Cs. Min deposit EUR 20. Wagering 40x (deposit + bonus), 50x on the 4th bonus. Max bet EUR 5. 48 hours to wager. Max conversion 5x bonus. Jeton, MiFinity, Neteller and Skrill deposits do not qualify. Not available in Finland. T&Cs apply.
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   Winsly

   Up to 7,000 wager-free free spins over 6 deposits + 10% weekly cashback

   • Estonian EMTA licence (EU)
   • Up to 7,000 wager-free spins
   • Casino and sportsbook

   ★ 4.5/5 · Licence: Estonian Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) HKT000082/HKT000083 (Frenwall Limited, Malta)

   Visit site21+ for casino games (18+ for betting) under the T&Cs. Min deposit EUR 20. Free spins worth EUR 0.10, credited over 5 days, no wagering on winnings; deposits need 1x turnover before withdrawal; free-spin winnings capped at EUR 5,000. Welcome offer not available in Finland or Estonia. T&Cs apply.
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   QU

   Quickz

   Up to EUR 1,150 + 1,111 free spins over 6 deposits + up to 20% weekly cashback

   • MGA licence (EU)
   • Up to 20% weekly cashback
   • Casino and sportsbook

   ★ 4.5/5 · Licence: Malta Gaming Authority MGA/B2C/1118/2025 (Ludaro Limited, Malta)

   Visit site18+. Min deposit EUR 20. Wagering 40x (deposit + bonus). Max bet EUR 5. Bonus must be wagered within 48 hours. Free spins have no wagering, winnings capped at EUR 1,000 per stage. Max conversion 5x bonus. Live casino and table games do not count. Welcome offer not available in Finland. T&Cs apply.
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   Reko Casino

   Up to 4,000 wager-free free spins over 6 deposits

   • Estonian EMTA licence (EU)
   • Free spins with no wagering
   • Online since 2024

   ★ 4.3/5 · Licence: Estonian Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) HKT000082/HKT000083 (Frenwall Limited, Malta)

   Visit site21+ for casino games (18+ for betting) under the T&Cs. Min deposit EUR 20. Free spins worth EUR 0.10, credited over 5 days, no wagering on winnings; deposits need 1x turnover before withdrawal; free-spin winnings capped at EUR 5,000. Welcome offer not available in Finland. T&Cs apply.
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   Kim Casino

   Up to 7,000 free spins over 6 deposits, no wagering on free-spin winnings

   • Anjouan licence (outside the EEA)
   • 7,000 free spins, no wagering on winnings
   • Long list of e-wallets

   ★ 4.2/5 · Licence: Anjouan ALSI-202506036-FI2 (Hundise Limited, Anjouan)

   Visit site18+. Min deposit EUR 20 per stage. Free spins worth EUR 0.10, credited in 5 daily drops; free-spin winnings have no wagering, capped at EUR 5,000; each deposit needs 1x turnover before withdrawal. The full 7,000 spins need EUR 8,000 in deposits. T&Cs apply.

Directory snapshot: the eight casinos at a glance (October 2026)

Data drawn from each casino’s general terms, payments page and welcome-offer page, fetched from a Swedish connection. “Processing” is the operator’s own maximum before money leaves the casino; your bank or wallet may add time on top.

Two patterns stand out. First, none of these brands lets a Swedish account hold Swedish kronor, so every deposit and withdrawal is converted, and your bank’s exchange margin is a real cost. Second, the withdrawal caps are identical across the three company groups behind them, which reflects a shared platform rather than coincidence.

Licence breakdown of the casinos we track

A licence tells you who supervises the operator and where you can complain. It does not tell you whether the casino may legally market itself in your country, and the table separates those two questions.

• Malta Gaming Authority (MGA)13
• Estonian Tax and Customs Board (EMTA)7
• Anjouan (Union of the Comoros)11
• Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA)1

What the licence numbers mean

MGA business-to-consumer licences follow the pattern MGA/B2C/number/year, and you can confirm one in the MGA’s public authorisations register. Estonian licences come in two parts: an activity licence (HKT) that runs indefinitely and an operating permit (HKL) that has an end date. For Frenwall, the operating permits HKL000440 and HKL000442 run from 13 November 2023 to 13 November 2028. Anjouan licences use the ALSI prefix and are best checked through the seal on the casino’s own footer, because a bare domain lookup on the regulator’s validator returns “invalid” even for genuine licences.

Curaçao after the 2024 reform

Curaçao replaced its old master-licence system with a new gaming law, the Landsverordening op de kansspelen (LOK), which took effect on 24 December 2024. The regulator is now the Curaçao Gaming Authority, and its register lives at cga.cw. The CGA reported unauthorised access to its licensing portal on 17 and 22 September 2026 and said existing licences remain valid while the portal is offline. Our Curaçao casino table lists only operators whose CGA licence text we could read on their own site.

Restricted countries, group by group

Every casino publishes a list of “excluded territories”. We copied them from the current terms so you can see where Nordic countries stand.

“Not named” is not the same as “legal”. The catch-all clause in each set of terms means the operator can refuse or close an account if your participation conflicts with the law where you live. Read the country notes below before you register.

Country rules for Nordic players (checked October 2026)

Sweden: the details that trip people up

Swedish law targets the operator and anyone promoting the casino, not the player. Spellagen (2018:1138) requires a Swedish licence to offer gambling to Swedish consumers, and Spelinspektionen has shown that an EU licence is no shield: on 8 January 2026 it banned the Malta-licensed Claymore from the Swedish market. Promotion is also policed. In December 2025 the regulator ordered a Swedish media site, Flashback Media Group, to stop running banners for two offshore casinos under a conditional fine of 130,000 kronor.

On tax, Skatteverket’s targeting test matters. A game counts as aimed at Sweden if, for example, it has Swedish text, is marketed in Sweden or lets you deposit and withdraw in kronor. Winnings from an EEA casino that does not need a Swedish licence are tax-free; if the game does require a Swedish licence, or the casino sits outside the EEA, 30% tax applies to your net winnings per operator and year, declared in box 7.2. Losses at one casino cannot be offset against wins at another. Spelpaus, which had a little under 138,000 registered people in the second quarter of 2026 according to trade press figures, does not reach any casino in this directory.

Norway: monopoly plus blocking

The Gambling Act (pengespilloven) that took effect on 1 January 2023 kept the exclusive-rights model. Lotteritilsynet received powers to order DNS blocking from 1 January 2025 and carried out its first blocking order, against 57 websites, on 1 April 2025. Payment blocking also applies. For tax, Skatteetaten treats single wins above NOK 10,000 from commercial foreign gambling, including online casinos, as taxable in most cases, and the EEA exemption only covers gambling whose profits go to charitable or non-profit causes.

Denmark: licences, court orders and ROFUS

Spillemyndigheden licenses online casinos and asks the courts to block those that target Danes without a licence. Its own figures show 334 sites blocked through court orders in 2025, and the Frederiksberg court ordered 98 more blocked on 8 July 2026. ROFUS, the national self-exclusion register, offers periods from 24 hours to permanent, but it only binds Danish licensees. Winnings are tax-free from a Danish licensee, and from an EU/EEA operator only when it is licensed, publicly supervised and offers a game that could lawfully be offered in Denmark.

Finland: a market in transition

Veikkaus keeps its exclusive right to offer online casino games until 30 June 2027. Private operators could apply for Finnish licences from 1 March 2026, and the licensed market opens on 1 July 2027. Until then, the National Police Board can order banks and payment firms to block player payments to operators it has banned from marketing in Finland, a system in force since the beginning of 2023. That is why most brands below exclude Finland from their welcome offers.

Payment methods by casino group

Welcome bonus terms side by side

Headline numbers hide most of the cost. This table puts the conditions that decide whether a bonus is worth taking next to each other.

Worked example: what 35x versus 45x costs you

Take a first deposit of EUR 100 with a 100% match. At Slot Pony the EUR 200 balance needs 35 times turnover, so you must place EUR 7,000 in bets within 48 hours. At Taste Vegas, 45x on the same EUR 200 means EUR 9,000. With slots returning around 96% on average, the expected loss over that turnover is roughly EUR 280 at Slot Pony and EUR 360 at Taste Vegas, which is more than the EUR 100 bonus in both cases. Wager-free spins, as at Winsly or Reko Casino, carry no such drag: whatever the spins win is cash, up to the EUR 5,000 cap.

Sister sites: which brands share an operator

Three of the four companies in this directory run several brands on one platform. That matters for bonuses, because most terms treat a player as “new” per brand, and for self-exclusion, because a block at one brand does not automatically reach its sisters.

• Elmst Limited5
• Elvel Limited5
• Ludaro Limited5
• Frenwall Limited7
• Hundise Limited9

Frenwall’s safe-gaming page says support can apply a limit across its brands on request, and Ludaro’s responsible-gambling terms (Quickz and its sisters) say the same about self-exclusion. Elmst, Elvel and Hundise state that limits and exclusions cover the single site only, so set them at each brand you use.

How to check a casino licence yourself in five minutes

1. Read the footer. A licensed casino names its operating company, the registration number and the licence number. If any of the three is missing, stop there.
2. Match the company, not the logo. In the MGA authorisations register, search for the company name (for example Elmst Limited) and check that the brand’s domain appears under that licence.
3. Use the regulator’s own list for Estonia. EMTA publishes a list of legal gambling operators; Frenwall’s brands appear under “Frenwall Limited” with the activity licences HKT000082 and HKT000083.
4. Click the seal for Anjouan and Curaçao. Both regulators validate licences through a seal script on the casino’s page. A seal that opens a static image rather than a validation page is a warning sign.
5. Check your own regulator’s decisions. Spelinspektionen, Lotteritilsynet, Spillemyndigheden and the Finnish police all publish decisions against named operators. We search each operator name before a brand joins this directory.

Verification and KYC: when the casino will ask for documents

Expect identity checks at every casino here, usually before your first withdrawal. The trigger points differ by group and are written into the terms:

Send a clear photo ID and a proof of address dated within the last three months as soon as you register. Doing it early is the single most effective way to cut the time between requesting and receiving a payout.

Age limits are not the same everywhere

Most brands in this directory accept players from 18. The Frenwall casinos are different: their terms, governed by Estonian law, set 21 as the minimum age for casino games and 18 for betting. Jackpot Cow, Slot Owl, Winsly, Reko Casino, Mad Rush, Wizz Spin and Slot Cloud fall under that rule, so a 19-year-old player from Sweden can sign up for sports betting at Winsly but not for its casino.

Which casino fits which player

Currency conversion: a cost most reviews skip

Swedish accounts at every casino here run in euros, and we found Norwegian kroner configured only at Slot Pony, so for most Nordic players every transaction is converted twice if you deposit and later withdraw. Suppose your bank applies a 1.5% margin each way. A SEK 5,000 deposit loses about SEK 75 on the way in, and a SEK 5,000 withdrawal loses about the same on the way out, so SEK 150 is gone before a single spin. A bank account or card with a euro balance, or a wallet that holds euros, removes most of that cost.

If a casino stops paying or closes

Start with the casino’s complaints procedure and keep everything in writing, including chat transcripts. If the reply does not resolve it, the next step depends on the licence: an MGA licensee must refer you to its registered ADR body, Anjouan licensees must answer within 30 days through the seal procedure, and Curaçao licensees must name a CGA-certified ADR provider. A Nordic regulator cannot order an unlicensed foreign casino to pay you, which is the strongest practical argument for keeping balances low and withdrawing winnings promptly.

Player-protection tools by group

Game studios named in licences and site copy

These casino lobbies are login-gated, so we recorded studios from two sources: the B2B suppliers attached to each MGA licence in the regulator’s register, and studios the casinos name in their own copy. Treat the lists as a guide to what the platform can carry, not as a guarantee that every title is open to your country.

Studios sometimes block their games for specific countries at casinos without a local licence. Some offshore terms we read, for instance, list Play’n GO and Pragmatic Play titles as unavailable in Sweden. If a particular game matters to you, ask support before you deposit.

Glossary of the terms used in our tables

• Wagering (deposit + bonus): the multiple applies to the deposit and the bonus together. A EUR 50 deposit with a EUR 50 bonus at 40x means EUR 4,000 in bets.
• Max conversion: the most bonus winnings you can turn into withdrawable cash, here 5x the bonus at most brands.
• Processing time: how long the casino may hold a withdrawal before releasing it, taken from the terms rather than from advertising.
• Excluded territory: a country from which the operator refuses registrations under its terms.
• ADR: alternative dispute resolution, an independent body that reviews complaints the casino has not settled.
• EEA: the European Economic Area, which matters for tax in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway.
• KYC: “know your customer”, the identity and address checks every licensed casino must run.

Customer support data

None of the eight offers Swedish, Norwegian or Danish as a site language. If you need support in your own language, that alone may rule these brands out.

Live casino and table games under bonus rules

Every brand here has a live casino, but the bonus terms treat it differently from slots. At the Elmst, Elvel and Ludaro casinos, live casino and RNG table games do not count towards wagering at all, so a blackjack player who takes a match bonus has effectively locked the deposit until the bonus is forfeited or wagered on slots. Frenwall counts only games tagged as “Bonus Games”. If you play mostly live tables, decline the welcome bonus at sign-up; the deposit then stays withdrawable after the casino’s 1x turnover rule.

How this directory is organised

Each category page applies one filter to the same verified data set, then adds the detail that category needs:

• All international casinos: the full table of every brand we track, sortable by licence and operator.
• MGA casino list: only brands licensed in Malta, with licence numbers and complaint routes.
• Curaçao casino list: CGA licences under the 2024 law, and what changed for players.
• Bitcoin casinos: brands that accept crypto, with coin lists and EU crypto rules.
• Pay N Play casinos: where no-account banking still works for Nordic players and where it does not.
• Trustly casinos: why Trustly disappears outside local licences, and the alternatives.
• New casinos: launch dates, terms versions and first-year data.
• International betting sites: casinos with sportsbooks, and the betting terms that differ from the casino side.

Data points we record for every casino

1. Licence number, licence holder and the register or seal we used to confirm it.
2. Operator company, registration number and country.
3. Named excluded territories, copied from the current terms version.
4. Welcome offer as shown to a Swedish connection, with wagering, maximum bet, time limit and maximum conversion.
5. Deposit methods, account currencies and the methods excluded from bonuses.
6. Withdrawal processing time and daily and monthly caps from the terms, not from marketing pages.
7. Any decision by Spelinspektionen, Lotteritilsynet, Spillemyndigheden or the Finnish police naming the operator.

Our scoring weights and the reasons a casino is removed are set out on the how we rate casinos page. Ratings reflect terms and licensing, not a promise about any individual withdrawal.

Casinos we excluded, and why

A brand leaves this directory, or never enters it, when one of four things is true: the operator has been banned by a Nordic regulator, the licence cannot be confirmed in a register or through a working seal, the site no longer accepts players from the Nordic countries, or the brand has closed. Two examples from the Swedish register show how this works in practice. Spelinspektionen banned Softon Ltd on 9 July 2026 (decision 26Si1361), naming all ten of its brands, and it banned Rabocse SRL on 18 August 2025 (25Si1093), covering gxmble.io, palmcasino.io, seven7.casino, slottio.com, wildzy.io, winstler.co and winzter.com. Mirror domains do not change a ban, so we do not list those brands under new addresses either. QBet is also absent: its operator has faced action in both the Netherlands and Sweden, and we do not list brands with open regulatory sanctions in the markets this directory serves.

Corrections made in this update

The previous version of this directory carried claims that no longer held. Several cards promised “tax free winnings” without conditions; we removed them, because tax depends on the licence and on whether the game requires a local licence, as the country table shows. Some brands were listed as MGA casinos after their operator moved to an Anjouan licence in 2026, and others had closed or changed hands. Every brand still on the list was re-checked, and offers now show the exact wagering and deadlines from the current terms.

Helplines and self-exclusion

Casinos in this directory offer their own loss limits, time-outs and self-exclusion, but those tools work per brand. Several sister casinos share a platform, so excluding yourself at one does not automatically close the others. More on tools and warning signs is on our responsible gambling page.

Frequently asked questions