The White Hat company file, host brands included – checked August 2026
White Hat Gaming Limited holds UKGC account 52894 from Mosta in Malta, and forty domain names sit on the file: seven own-brand casinos, twenty-five operated for other companies as white labels, and eight no longer in service. The account shows no regulatory action today. The company nonetheless paid a settlement of £1.3m in December 2020, and the two statements are both true at once.
Company record
| Field | Entry |
| Licensee | White Hat Gaming Limited |
| UKGC account | 52894 |
| Head office on the register | Cornerstone Business Centre, MOSTA, MST 1180, Malta |
| Licence number | 052894-R-329546-007, carrying every permission on the file |
| Permissions | Five, all remote – in plain English, internet only – all Active from 29 October 2018 |
| Trading names | One only, white hat gaming, Active |
| Domain names | Forty. The counter and the three tables agree exactly |
| Premises | None |
| What the actions counter reads | Zero, and the actions page carries the same message |
| On the public record anyway | £1.3m, announced by the Commission on 28 December 2020 |
| House signature | A licensee whose main trade is running casinos for other companies, with a short row of its own brands beside them |
A platform company first, a casino group second
Most licensees on this register hold permissions to sell gambling. This one holds a permission to build it. Alongside casino, bingo and betting on virtual events as well as real ones, account 52894 carries Gambling Software, and that single line changes how the rest of the file should be read.
The proportions make the point better than the permission does. Forty domain names sit against exactly one trading name. Twenty-five of those forty are filed in the White Label column, which is the register saying in its own vocabulary that the brand on show belongs to somebody else. Only seven addresses are names White Hat sells under itself. Reading the domain list is not reading a group of casinos. It is reading a client list.
That distinction matters to a player for one practical reason. When the brand and the licence sit in different hands, it is the licence holder who owes you the regulated duties – the verification, the complaint route, the money. The name out front is closer to a shopfront lease than to a company.
Forty domains on one licence
Read on 9 August 2026. The count printed above the licence summary says forty and the three tables hold forty rows between them, so both figures are printed here and both agree – which is worth saying, because on other accounts they do not.
| Column on the register | Addresses filed there |
| Active, seven own brands | www.21prive.com, www.diamond7casino.com, www.gdaycasino.com, www.hellocasino.com, www.mainstagebingo.com, www.skolcasino.com, www.slotnite.com |
| White Label, twenty-five partner brands | www.casimba.com, www.dreamvegas.com, www.grandivy.com, karamba.co.uk, www.playgrand.com, www.playzee.com, www.hopa.com, www.barz.com, www.spinland.com, www.spinrider.com, www.spinstation.com, www.spinyoo.com, www.templenile.com, www.jackpotvillage.com, www.miamidice.com, www.slotplanet.com, www.casilando.com, www.casiku.com, www.blackjackcity.com, www.21casino.com, www.247bet.com, www.mrben.com, www.mrrun.com, bettarget.co.uk, griffoncasino.co.uk |
| Inactive, eight of them | www.karamba.com, www.jonnyjackpot.com, www.captainspins.com, www.reelisland.com, www.casigo.com, www.slots.cafe, www.griffoncasino.com, www.bettarget.com |
Three of those Inactive entries are worth a second look, because each has a living twin. karamba.com is dormant while karamba.co.uk trades on as a White Label. griffoncasino.com is dormant while griffoncasino.co.uk is live. bettarget.com is dormant while bettarget.co.uk is live. In all three cases the dot-com died and the British address inherited the brand, which is a normal thing for an operator to do and an easy thing for a listing elsewhere to get wrong.
One licence number, five permissions, one date
| Activity | Type | Licence | Active from |
| Gambling Software | Remote | 052894-R-329546-007 | 29 Oct 2018 |
| Casino | Remote | 052894-R-329546-007 | 29 Oct 2018 |
| Bingo | Remote | 052894-R-329546-007 | 29 Oct 2018 |
| General Betting Standard – Virtual Event | Remote | 052894-R-329546-007 | 29 Oct 2018 |
| General Betting Standard – Real Event | Remote | 052894-R-329546-007 | 29 Oct 2018 |
Every permission on this account started on the same day, on the same number, and none has an end date. That is not how most files look. Larger operators accrete permissions over a decade or more as products are added, so their timelines read as a company history. This one reads as an arrival: the business turned up already able to do everything it currently does, in the autumn of 2018, and has added nothing since.
The date is also the ceiling on any claim about this licensee. Nothing that happened before 29 October 2018 happened under account 52894, whatever a brand now sitting on it was doing at the time.
What a white label actually is
The phrase gets used loosely. On the register it has a precise meaning, and it is the difference between two of the three columns above.
An own-brand address is one the licence holder trades under itself. A White Label address is one where another company owns the brand, the marketing and usually the look of the site, while the licence holder supplies the licence, the platform, the payments and the compliance. Casimba is not a company that happens to use White Hat. Casimba is a brand whose gambling is carried out by White Hat Gaming Limited under account 52894.
Three consequences follow, and they are the reason this page exists rather than twenty-five separate ones. Your account verification is done to one standard across the group. Your complaint, if the brand cannot settle it, goes to the licence holder and then to that licensee alternative dispute resolution route, not to whoever owns the logo. And any regulatory finding lands on the licence, which is why a settlement paid in 2020 concerns brands that had nothing to do with it and, in some cases, did not yet exist on the file.
Verified roster entries
| Brand | Address and column | Note from the register |
| Karamba | karamba.co.uk, White Label | Arrived from another licensee; the older karamba.com is Inactive here |
| Casimba | www.casimba.com, White Label | The largest of the partner brands by profile |
| Grand Ivy | www.grandivy.com, White Label | Named in the 2020 settlement announcement |
| Dream Vegas | www.dreamvegas.com, White Label | Named in the 2020 settlement announcement |
| 21 Casino | www.21casino.com, White Label | Named in the 2020 settlement announcement |
| Hello Casino | www.hellocasino.com, Active own brand | Named in the 2020 settlement announcement, and the only one of the four that White Hat trades under itself |
| Griffon Casino | griffoncasino.co.uk, White Label | Its dot-com twin is Inactive on the same file |
| Bettarget | bettarget.co.uk, White Label | Same pattern, dot-com Inactive |
| Mainstage Bingo | www.mainstagebingo.com, Active own brand | The only address on the file that leads with bingo |
| 21 Prive, Diamond 7, G day Casino, Skol Casino, Slotnite | Active own brands | The remainder of the seven White Hat sells under its own name |
The eight that stopped
Inactive is a status rather than a deletion, so the rows remain on the file as a record of what was there. Five of the eight have no surviving twin anywhere on the account: www.jonnyjackpot.com, www.captainspins.com, www.reelisland.com, www.casigo.com and www.slots.cafe. Those five are the genuinely departed.
The other three – karamba.com, griffoncasino.com and bettarget.com – are not departures at all but address changes, with the brand still trading on the British spelling. Anywhere that counts Inactive rows as closures will report eight dead brands on this account. The correct figure is five, and the register itself gives you everything you need to tell the difference.
Where a complaint reaches on 52894
Two separate things get muddled here, so it is worth separating them.
The national self-exclusion scheme covers every remote operator licensed in Great Britain. Register with it and all forty of these addresses close to you, along with every other licensed site in the country. That reach comes from the scheme, not from anything about this account, and any page telling you that a single licence is what makes it work has the mechanism backwards.
What genuinely is account-level is responsibility. Whichever of the forty sites you used, the business regulated for what happened behind it is White Hat Gaming Limited. It holds the licence, it answers to the Commission, and it is the party a dispute travels to once the brand itself cannot settle it. The logo on the page has no licence of its own to lose.
That cuts in the direction players usually want and in one they usually do not. A verification already completed with the licensee is a verification the licensee holds. A restriction it has decided to apply is also one it applies as licence holder.
Sanctions on file – the settlement the register does not show
Start with what the register says, because it says it plainly. The regulatory actions counter on account 52894 reads zero. The actions page states that nothing at all has been recorded for this business. Typing white hat into the separate register of regulatory actions returns nothing at all. Three checks, three blanks, all made on 9 August 2026.
Now the part none of those three checks will give you. On 28 December 2020 the Commission announced that White Hat Gaming had agreed a settlement of £1.3m after a compliance assessment found failings in how it identified and managed customers at higher risk of money laundering and of gambling harm. The announcement is still published. The register does not carry it, and no amount of reading the account page will produce it.
| Line of the settlement | What the announcement says |
| Announced | 28 December 2020, with the article last updated on 9 August 2021 |
| Licensee named | White Hat Gaming, the holder of account 52894 |
| Money | £1.3m, paid in lieu of a financial penalty rather than as a fine |
| Where the money went | Towards delivering the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms |
| How it arose | A Commission compliance assessment, described as part of routine ongoing work |
| Websites named in the announcement | dreamvegas.com, hellocasino.com, 21casino.com and grandivy.com |
| Commitments given | Automated prevention of further spending once a limit is reached; an increase in safer-gambling customer interactions; more robust source-of-funds checking; and regular review of the anti-money-laundering controls and processes |
| Not stated anywhere in it | No formal warning, no added licence condition, no divestment of profit and no contribution to investigation costs appear |
| Visible on the register today | Nothing whatsoever |
The Commission published three customer examples alongside it, and they are the reason the figure was what it was. The source of funds was never established for a customer who lost £70,000 over three months. Interaction was ineffective with a second who lost £50,000 in six hours, and with a third who lost £85,000 in a little over an hour.
Read the four named websites against the domain table above and the point of this whole page arrives at once. Three of the four are White Label addresses, brands belonging to other companies: 21casino.com, dreamvegas.com and grandivy.com. Only hellocasino.com is a name White Hat trades under itself. The failings were the licence holder failings, on sites carrying four different logos, and the settlement attaches to the licence rather than to any of them.
So the accurate sentence about this account is a careful one, and it is longer than the sentence most listings will give you. No regulatory action is currently recorded against 52894, and a search of the actions register under the licensee name returns nothing; a settlement of £1.3m was nonetheless announced against this licensee in December 2020 and remains published. Both halves are needed. Either on its own misleads.
Check this yourself
Everything above comes from five pages, four on the register and one in the news archive. None takes more than a minute.
- The licence summary for account 52894, which carries the permission list and all four counters
- Its domain names, split into the three status columns
- Its trading names, where you will find exactly one
- Its regulatory actions page, which is empty
- The Commission announcement of the settlement, Gambling business overhaul following Gambling Commission investigation, dated 28 December 2020
One caution on that last link. Public statements come down three years after the date they were issued, so the detailed statement behind a case can be long gone while a news article survives. The article was reachable on 9 August 2026 and everything quoted here is quoted from it.
A settlement that predates half the roster
December 2020 is early in the life of this account. The licence had been running a little over two years, and several of the brands now filed against it were not there yet. Karamba is the clearest case: the register shows karamba.com Inactive on this file and karamba.co.uk carrying White Label status, the shape an address takes when a brand moves onto a licence rather than being born on it. Whatever Karamba was doing in 2020, it was not doing it here.
This is the awkward middle of any white-label business, and it is worth stating rather than smoothing over. A settlement attaches to a licence, so in the strict regulatory sense it sits over every address on the file, including ones added afterwards. In the ordinary sense of who did what, it does not. The four websites the Commission actually named are named above; the other thirty-six are not, and nothing published says they were involved.
The useful version for a reader choosing between these brands is therefore neither reassurance nor alarm. It is that the compliance standard, the source-of-funds checking and the limit enforcement you meet at any of the forty are the standard of one company, and that company was told in 2020 that its version of those things was not good enough, agreed to change them, and has had no further action recorded since.
Change log
| Date | Entry |
| 9 Aug 2026 | Correction. This page previously stated that nothing had ever been recorded or settled against account 52894 and described the file as carrying nothing that any white label on it could inherit. That was wrong. A settlement of £1.3m was announced against this licensee on 28 December 2020 and is still published. The claim has been removed and the settlement is set out in full above |
| 9 Aug 2026 | Settlement read from the Commission announcement in full, including the four named websites, the three published customer examples and the four commitments given. Recorded that no warning, no added licence condition, no divestment and no costs appear in it |
| 9 Aug 2026 | Account re-read and reconciled – one trading name, forty domains as 7 Active, 25 White Label and 8 Inactive, no premises, actions counter zero. Counter and tables agree exactly, and both figures are printed |
| 9 Aug 2026 | Business register searched on the licensee name, returning this account only. Regulatory actions register searched on the same term, returning nothing |
| 9 Aug 2026 | Three Inactive addresses identified as address changes rather than closures – karamba.com, griffoncasino.com and bettarget.com each have a live British twin on the same file. The genuinely departed number five, not eight |
| 6 Aug 2026 | Full domain audit: 7 own-brand actives, 25 white labels, 8 inactives confirmed on the register |
White Hat entries in this register
Eighteen brands on this account have their own dated page. Of the four websites named in the 2020 settlement, three are covered here: Grand Ivy, Dream Vegas and Hello Casino. The fourth, 21 Casino, does not yet.
Among the rest of the partner brands: Casimba, Karamba for the address-change story, Griffon Casino for the same pattern again, Temple Nile, Barz, Spinland, Spin Station, Spin Rider, Miami Dice, Jackpot Village, PlayGrand and Slot Planet.
From the seven White Hat sells under its own name: Skol Casino, Slotnite and Diamond 7, with Hello Casino above. G day Casino sits on the file without a page here, and so do 21 Prive and Mainstage Bingo.