GAN Surrenders UK Gambling Commission Software Licence After Nearly 18 Years

^{Victoria Square House in Birmingham, headquarters of the UK Gambling Commission, whose public register shows GAN’s licence as surrendered. (Photo: Bs0u10e01 / Wikimedia Commons)}

GAN (UK) Limited has surrendered its Gambling Commission remote software licence, ending a permission it had held since the start of 2009. The Commission’s public register lists the licence as surrendered on 4 November 2026, as GAN’s owner, Sega Sammy, restructures the business.

The entry reads Gambling Software Remote, licence number 002604-R-104107-030, with a start date of 1 January 2009 and an end date of 4 November 2026. The register shows the licence only; it does not give a reason for the surrender or say anything about other group licences.

What the Licence Covered

A remote gambling software licence is a business-to-business permission. It lets a company manufacture, supply, install or adapt gambling software that players reach online, rather than offering games to consumers directly. GAN has used it to supply casino content and its player account management platform to operators.

The licensee is listed with a head office address in Las Vegas. The company began in the UK market in 2002 with real-money online skill gaming and moved into B2B software and content distribution when the licence was granted in 2009, according to reports on the surrender.

The loss of a supplier licence matters because operators must check that their suppliers hold the right permissions to stay on the right side of their own licence conditions. The Commission has shown it will act when a supplier slips, as when it suspended Tom Horn Gaming’s UK licences. A voluntary surrender is different, and the regulator’s guidance expects licensees to settle customer obligations before they hand a licence back.

Sega Sammy’s Restructuring

Sega Sammy completed its acquisition of GAN Limited in May 2025. Shareholders received $1.97 per share in cash and GAN was delisted from the Nasdaq, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Sega Sammy Creation.

In June, Sega Sammy said it planned to restructure GAN’s UK operations within the financial year ending March 2027 as part of a revitalisation programme. The plan included cutting 66 staff to create annual savings of $9.7 million, with further cuts announced at its Stakelogic supplier.

The surrender came two days before Sega Sammy published its latest results. They showed GAN sales of ¥10.8 billion and an operating loss of ¥2.2 billion. In its results presentation, the group said it was promoting business revitalisation programmes for GAN and Stakelogic, with migration to a new GAN platform and fixed-cost reductions among its priorities.

A Shift Towards the US

Trade reports say the group plans to simplify its B2B operations and put more weight on the United States, where GAN supplies its platform to regulated operators and tribal casino partners. Those reports also note that the precise link between the restructuring and the licence surrender has not been spelled out.

GAN’s regulatory history in Britain includes a period from August 2018 to September 2019 in which the Commission found it had failed to comply with several licence conditions on social responsibility and anti-money laundering, and attached additional conditions. The surrender is not tied to a new enforcement case, according to coverage of the register.

Neither GAN nor Sega Sammy had published a statement on the surrender at the time of writing. The register is the Commission’s official record of the licence status.