The Netherlands Gambling Authority (Kansspelautoriteit, or KSA) issued a binding instruction (bindende aanwijzing) on 19 October 2026 to two companies: Endorphina Limited, registered in Malta, and Endorphina Ltd., registered in Cyprus. The regulator published the decision on 2 November 2026.
According to the KSA, its board determined that the two companies took insufficiently adequate measures to prevent their games from being offered on websites that are illegal in the Netherlands.
The regulator said that this failure promotes the offering of gambling without a licence. The KSA states that this conflicts with Article 1(1)(b) of the Wet op de kansspelen (Wok), the Dutch Betting and Gaming Act.
The material available to us does not mention a monetary penalty.
The regulator also issued a separate disclosure decision (openbaarmakingsbesluit), which is likewise dated 19 October 2026 and carries reference 01.414.933. The KSA said that both the binding instruction and the disclosure decision are open to objection (bezwaar). We do not know whether either Endorphina entity has lodged an objection to either decision.
We have not reviewed the full text of the instruction. As a result, this report does not cover the specific measures the KSA requires from the two companies or any deadline for complying with them. The material available to us also does not identify the websites on which the games appeared, and it does not say how many there were. Only the text of the instruction itself would answer these questions.
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