Seychelles: gambling regulation and licensing

Seychelles regulates gambling through its Financial Services Authority, which lists gambling as one of its categories of regulated entities alongside fiduciary services, insurance, collective investment schemes, capital markets, the international trade zone and virtual asset service providers. That placement is the most important fact about the jurisdiction. Putting gambling inside the financial services regulator rather than in a gaming board means operators are supervised by an authority whose core competence is licensing, enforcement and anti-money laundering across financial sectors, and which publishes regulatory enforcements, disciplinary actions and an appeals board process. The FSA also maintains an AML and counter-terrorist financing function, a beneficial ownership regime and FATF high-risk country guidance, all of which apply across its regulated population. For an offshore jurisdiction that is a meaningful signal, because the reputational risk in Caribbean and Indian Ocean licensing has usually attached to registries with light supervisory capacity rather than to financial regulators. This profile records the authority and its gambling remit, and leaves the substantive detail as honest gaps. Licence types, fees, tax treatment, advertising rules and compliance obligations have not yet been verified against primary sources, and the specific position on remote gambling is not asserted here.

Regulator

Financial Services Authority (FSA)

Regulator type

Dedicated regulator

Headline tax

Not yet verified

Licence required

Not yet verified

Minimum age

Not yet verified

Tax base

Not yet verified

Advertising permitted

Yes

Affiliate rules

Affiliates are not separately licensed here. Affiliate compliance follows the rules of the market being targeted rather than those of the licensing jurisdiction.

Penalties for breach

The Financial Services Authority supervises licensees and can act against the licence.

1. Financial Services Authority - Regulated Entities: Gambling

   Financial Services Authority, Seychelles

   Tier 1Accessed 27 Aug 2026
2. Legislations, gambling

   Financial Services Authority Seychelles

   Tier 1Accessed 29 Aug 2026
3. Seychelles Gambling (Interactive Gambling) Rules 2024, SI 2 of 2024

   Official Gazette of Seychelles

   Tier 1Accessed 29 Aug 2026Published 8 Jan 2024