Game Providers and Back Office

A critical gaming supply licence is a Business to Business (B2B) licence to provide or carry out a critical gaming supply from Malta, to a Maltese person or through a Maltese legal entity.

The following services constitute a critical gaming supply, and applicants require a business-to-business licence to provide or carry out such services:

• Supply and management of software, whether as a stand-alone or as part of a system, to generate, capture, control or otherwise process any essential regulatory record and, or the supply and management of the control system itself on which such software resides.
• Providing or carrying out a critical gaming supply and management of material elements of a game from Malta, to a Maltese person or through a Maltese legal entity.

Corporate Group Licence
Corporate groups may apply for a B2B corporate MGA licence, whereby the whole group is deemed to be the Licensee, as long as the group’s parent entity exercises control to the extent of over ninety percent over other bodies corporate in the same group, whether by way of shareholding or voting rights. The company designated as the nominal holder of the group licence shall be vested with the primary responsibility to pay the relevant dues to the Authority and to satisfy information and reporting requirements in terms of applicable regulatory instruments.

Once a licence is awarded, several ‘gaming verticals’, meaning categories of products that require specific safeguards per vertical, can be offered under the same licence. These verticals require prior approval, in order to ensure that they are offered in a manner which adheres to law and to the regulatory objectives, owing to their differing characteristics and the distinction between these product categories. For the sake of clarity, the different verticals are grouped into Gaming Types, and the Compliance Contribution as well as the minimum share capital requirements are calculated per Game Type.