Five casino brands, five licence records, one ruled line-up.

Most casino round-ups start with the games. This one starts with the paperwork, because the paperwork decides whether your money is protected and who answers for it when something goes wrong. Every brand below was looked up by hand on the Gambling Commission’s public register: the company holding the licence, the products it covers, the web address the regulator has on file, and whether anything is recorded against it.

We are a small independent comparison site — not a casino, and not part of one. We earn money from links, as set out below and in our affiliate disclosure.

Brands in the line-up: 5
Register entries read: 5 of 5
Last checked: 27 August 2026
Funding: Affiliate links

Who is publishing this

An independent comparison desk, and nothing more

What we do

We read licence records, check them against what each brand claims about itself, and publish the result in one place — so you do not need six tabs open to learn who would hold your card details.

What we are not

UK Chip Parade takes no bets, holds no player money, runs no games and issues no licences. We are not connected to the Gambling Commission, GAMSTOP, GamCare or GambleAware, and cannot act for you in a dispute.

How we are paid

Open an account through one of our links and the operator may pay us a commission. That is the whole business model. It buys no band and removes nothing awkward from a write-up.

The method

Four checks, then a plain-English band

Every brand is judged on the same four things, all verifiable by anyone with a browser. We do not score game libraries by counting titles: those numbers change weekly and nobody can audit them.

Product match. Does the licensee hold a current remote casino authorisation, or just a betting licence with casino games bolted on to the marketing?
Licensee clarity. Is the company named in the site’s own terms the one named on the register?
Register history. Does the public record show regulatory action against the licensee, and how much?
Time on the record. How long has the casino authorisation been in force? A licence granted last year tells you less than one that has survived a decade of compliance reviews.

Those results become a band: Excellent, Strong or Mixed. The bands are our opinion and belong to this site alone — not a rating from the regulator, not a safety guarantee, and no indication of whether you will win. The longer version is on how we work.

Where the facts come from

Licence status, licensee names, account numbers and registered addresses all come from the Gambling Commission public register. Each lookup takes under a minute to repeat, and we would rather you did.

What we leave out

Bonus figures, wagering multiples, withdrawal times and game counts move constantly and are easy to misquote, so they are absent by design. Read the operator’s terms before depositing; those, not our summary, are what you agree to.

Before you follow any link below

Every outbound gambling link on this website leads only to operators licensed and authorised by the UK Gambling Commission — if a brand is not on the register for the product it advertises, it does not get a link from us. These pages are meant for adults of 18 and over. Gambling can be addictive, so settle on what you are willing to lose before you start and stop when you reach it.

How the links work

The buttons in the line-up are commercial links: if you sign up and play, the operator may pay UK Chip Parade a commission. That changes none of the licence facts in the table, which come from the register rather than from the operators.

Your account, your deposit and any dispute are with the operator, not with us. Read their terms — including the parts on identity checks and withdrawal limits — before you put money in.

Side by side

The licence record, criterion by criterion

Rows are the criteria, columns are the brands. Everything here is a matter of public record, checked on 27 August 2026.

Licence details for the five brands in the line-up, as published on the Gambling Commission public register.
Criterion	888casino	Spin Genie	10bet	Ken Howells	TigerBet
Licensed company	888 UK Limited	Skill On Net Limited	Blue Star Planet Limited	Targetlocal Limited	TigerPlay LTD
Commission account number	39028	39326	43173	422	65319
Remote casino authorisation	Active	Active	Active	Active	Active
Casino licence in force since	1 Nov 2014	1 Nov 2014	17 Dec 2015	9 Jul 2024	19 Jun 2025
Other licensed remote products	Bingo; betting on real and virtual events	Bingo; gambling software	Betting on real and virtual events	Betting on real and virtual events; betting shop licence since 2009	Betting on real events
Regulatory actions on the register	3	0	0	0	0
Registered web address	888casino.com	www.spingenie.com	www.10bet.co.uk	kenhowells.com	www.tigerbet.co.uk
Our band	Strong	Excellent	Strong	Mixed	Mixed

Scroll the table sideways on a narrow screen, or read the same information brand by brand below. Licence details can change at any time, and the register is always the authority.

Brand by brand

The line-up in full

One card each. Links are commercial and open the operator’s own registered site.

Excellent

The tidiest paperwork of the five. Skill On Net Limited has held remote casino authorisation since November 2014, carries a gambling software licence alongside it, and has no regulatory action on the register. The licensee is named openly in the site’s own terms, and the address you land on is one the regulator has on file — two things that sound obvious and are not always true.

Licensee: Skill On Net Limited
Account number: 39326
Casino licence since: 1 Nov 2014
Registered address: www.spingenie.com

Visit spingenie.comCommercial link · 18+ · operator terms apply

Strong

The longest continuous casino record here, and the widest spread of licensed products: casino, bingo and betting on real and virtual events, all live since November 2014. The counterweight is on the same register page — three regulatory actions recorded against 888 UK Limited. Longevity and enforcement history often travel together in this industry, and you should see both.

Licensee: 888 UK Limited
Account number: 39028
Casino licence since: 1 Nov 2014
Registered address: 888casino.com

Visit 888casino.comCommercial link · 18+ · operator terms apply

Strong

A narrow, clean record. Blue Star Planet Limited runs a single British address, 10bet.co.uk, alongside an Irish counterpart, with casino and betting authorisations in force since December 2015 and no regulatory action listed. Sportsbook branding dominates the front page, so read it as a betting operation with a licensed casino attached rather than the other way round.

Licensee: Blue Star Planet Limited
Account number: 43173
Casino licence since: 17 Dec 2015
Registered address: www.10bet.co.uk

Visit 10bet.co.ukCommercial link · 18+ · operator terms apply

Mixed

An unusual entry. Targetlocal Limited has held a betting licence since January 2009 and still runs a licensed shop in Ammanford, but the remote casino authorisation only began in July 2024. So: a licensee with a long clean record, and an online casino with barely two years behind it. The band reflects that gap, not a concern about the licence.

Licensee: Targetlocal Limited
Account number: 422
Casino licence since: 9 Jul 2024
Registered address: kenhowells.com

Visit kenhowells.comCommercial link · 18+ · operator terms apply

Mixed

The newest name here. TigerPlay LTD was authorised for remote casino and real-event betting in June 2025, from a London registered office, with a single web address on file and nothing recorded against it. There is simply not much record yet to weigh, which is a reason for caution rather than suspicion. Keep a first deposit small.

Licensee: TigerPlay LTD
Account number: 65319
Casino licence since: 19 Jun 2025
Registered address: www.tigerbet.co.uk

Visit tigerbet.co.ukCommercial link · 18+ · operator terms apply

Why only five?

Because five is how many we could check properly. Each was matched to a live register entry, product by product, before it earned a place. Where the licence, the licensee and the web address cannot all be confirmed, the brand comes off the list rather than going on with a caveat.

Spotted something out of date — a lapsed licence, a changed licensee, an address that no longer matches? Tell us through the corrections page.

Licensing, in plain terms

What a British licence actually gets you

Any business offering online casino games to people in Great Britain must hold an operating licence from the Gambling Commission. That is not a badge for the footer; it carries obligations that matter on the days things go wrong. Licensed operators must check your age before you play, keep customer money separate from company money to a disclosed standard, publish the terms governing your bonuses, and give you working tools to limit or stop your own play.

The licence also names addresses. Each register entry lists the web addresses the licensee may trade from — the most useful check a player can run, because if the site in your browser is missing from that list, you are not covered by the protections you assume you have. Every address in our table came from it.

Two limits, bluntly: a licence does not make a casino generous, and it does not improve the odds. Nor does it cover Northern Ireland, which has its own gambling law; the Commission licenses gambling in England, Scotland and Wales.

Check it yourself in a minute

Open the register, enter the licensee name or account number from our table, and read the entry. Compare the licensed activities with what the site sells, and the domain list with the address in your browser bar.

Open the public register

Things a licence will not do

Recover money you have lost playing.
Override bonus terms you found unfair after the fact.
Stop you gambling more than you meant to — that is what deposit limits and time-outs are for.

If it stops being fun

Free help, and the tools that come with every licensed account

Gambling problems rarely announce themselves. The signs are dull and practical: playing longer than planned, topping up a deposit limit, chasing a loss on a Sunday night, hiding the app from someone at home. If that is familiar, the services here are free, confidential and independent of us and of every operator we list.

Licensed casinos must also give you working controls inside your own account — deposit, time and loss limits, reality checks, time-outs and self-exclusion. Setting a deposit limit before your first spin is the most effective thing on this page and takes about thirty seconds. Each control is explained on our safer gambling tools page.

These organisations are independent. Listing them is not a claim that any of them endorses UK Chip Parade or the brands we compare.

Questions we actually get

Five things worth knowing before you sign up

Why does your table ignore bonuses and free spins?

Because promotional terms change without notice and are the easiest thing on a casino site to misreport. A stale wagering requirement would be worse than none. When you find an offer on an operator’s site, read the bonus terms there — particularly the wagering multiple, the expiry and the cap on withdrawals from bonus winnings.

What does the “Mixed” band mean — is the site unsafe?

No. Every brand here holds a current remote casino authorisation, or it would not be listed. “Mixed” is our shorthand for a record that is thin rather than troubling, usually because the online casino side is very new. Less history means less to judge, so it earns more caution.

Does the register really list a casino’s web address?

It does, and it is the check most players never run. Each licensee entry has a domain list showing which addresses are active. Copycat sites and stale affiliate links are common enough to make that thirty-second comparison worthwhile.

Are you paid to rank one brand above another?

We are paid when a reader opens an account through one of our links, and we say so on every page. What we do not do is sell a band or bury a recorded regulatory action — the three listed against 888 UK Limited are in our table for that reason.

Can you help me get money back from an operator?

We cannot; we are a publisher with no access to anyone’s account. Complain to the operator in writing first. If that fails, they must refer you to an independent alternative dispute resolution provider, and the Gambling Commission’s site explains what the regulator can look at.

One last piece of context

Casino games are built to return less than they take, over time and across all players. No comparison table, licence record or editorial band changes that arithmetic. Read this site as a way of choosing between licensed operators if you have already decided to play — never as encouragement to start, and never as a route to income.

Details here were correct on 27 August 2026. Licence positions can change the day after we publish, so treat the public register as the final word.