We could not confirm any licence for Lucky Mate. Its operator, BrillianteFin Development N.V. (Curaçao company no. 158519), cites licence no. 365/JAZ, which turns out to be a legacy Curaçao master-licence number belonging to Gaming Services Provider N.V. The master licence behind that number expired on 18 August 2024. BrillianteFin is missing from the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s public register (21 September 2026 edition), and Australian internet providers were asked by the ACMA in February 2026 to block Lucky Mate.
What follows is the short legal summary. Bonuses, payments and games are covered in our Lucky Mate casino summary.
Who runs Lucky Mate
| Operator | BrillianteFin Development N.V. |
| Company number | 158519 (Curaçao) |
| Licence cited | 365/JAZ, a legacy master number that expired on 18 August 2024 |
| Current Australian domain | luckymate.co.com (EN-AU and EN-NZ versions) |
| Domains on the ACMA blocklist | luckymate.com, luckymatecasino.com |
| Sister casinos | Lucky Green, Pokiesurf, Spinstralia, Pocket Pokies |
| Operating history | Operator platform active since 2023; Australian casino pages live no later than February 2025 |
Casino Guru lists the owner as undisclosed. Three separate sources do name a company, and they agree on it: the footer of the Australian site, the operator’s 2023 terms and conditions, and the Tobique Gaming Commission register. On that evidence, BrillianteFin Development N.V. is the business behind the brand. The missing piece is a current licence in its name.
The licence claims, checked one by one
Each licence statement linked to Lucky Mate was set beside the register or document it relies on, and the status column records what that source actually supports.
| Claim | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|
| “Operated under the licence no 365/JAZ by BrillianteFin Development N.V.” | Operator’s site footer, archived 2025 to 2026 | Expired: 365/JAZ is the master number of Gaming Services Provider N.V., which lapsed on 18 August 2024 |
| BrillianteFin holds a current Curaçao licence | Curaçao Gaming Authority register, 21 September 2026 edition | Not found: no entry for the company |
| Licence from an unnamed “international gambling authority” | Operator FAQ, May 2026 | Unverifiable: no regulator is named |
| Tobique Gaming Commission licence | Tobique register (Canada) | Expired: BrillianteFin’s B2C entry ran to 8 August 2025; luckymate.com and luckymate.co.com are not among its listed domains |
| Lucky Mate is open to Australians | ACMA announcement, 13 February 2026 | Blocked: luckymate.com and luckymatecasino.com are on the blocklist |
| Independent licence check | Casino Guru, Australian review | Agrees: “No license”, Safety Index 3.5 (Low), owner undisclosed |
| UK Gambling Commission licence | Held by the UK brand LuckyMate (Anakatech Interactive Ltd) | Not applicable to the Australian casino |
What 365/JAZ actually is
Curaçao’s old system allowed a handful of companies to hold master licences and to let other operators trade under them. 365/JAZ belongs to one of those master holders, Gaming Services Provider N.V. On 7 August 2024 the Curaçao regulator confirmed that master licences would not be renewed or extended past their expiry dates, and the Gaming Services Provider licence ran out on 18 August 2024. The new gaming law moved licensing to the Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA), which issues licences directly; entries in its register carry new-style numbers beginning OGL/ or CGA/ instead of /JAZ.
So a footer still showing 365/JAZ in 2026 refers to a licence that has lapsed, and the public register links BrillianteFin to no replacement.
Lucky Mate under Australian law
Online casinos cannot get an Australian licence, because no regulator here issues one. Section 15(2A) of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 prohibits operators from providing online casino-style games to people in Australia. In the Department of Infrastructure’s description, the Act “targets the providers of interactive gambling, not their potential or actual customers”. The prohibition lands on the operator. Players, for their part, get no Australian consumer protection and, in the government’s words, “little recourse” in a dispute.
The ACMA block
Lucky Mate was one of eight brands in the batch the ACMA announced on 13 February 2026, when it said it had asked internet providers to block them. The regulator lists Lucky Mate as a prohibited service and gives continued contravention of the Act as the reason the websites were blocked. The blocklist names two domains, luckymate.com and luckymatecasino.com. The operator now trades from luckymate.co.com, which was absent from the list when we checked in October 2026, although access could change at any point. For scale, as at 24 September 2026 the ACMA counted 1,822 illegal gambling and affiliate websites blocked since November 2019. The ACMA blocked gambling websites page carries the full list.
Lucky Mate Australia is not LuckyMate UK
A British casino uses almost the same name, and some review sites confuse the two, giving the Australian casino credit for the UK licence. The businesses are separate, each with its own operator.
| Detail | Lucky Mate (Australia) | LuckyMate (UK) |
|---|---|---|
| Domain | luckymate.co.com | luckymate.co.uk |
| Operator | BrillianteFin Development N.V. | Anakatech Interactive Ltd |
| Licence | Cites expired 365/JAZ; not in the CGA register | UK Gambling Commission |
| Products | Casino only, no sportsbook | Casino and sports betting |
| Currency | AUD | GBP (£) |
| Welcome offer | Up to A$4,000 + 150 free spins over four deposits | Code MATE50 with 50 spins on Big Bass Splash |
That UK licence stops at the UK brand. Lucky Mate’s Australian site falls outside it, and the MATE50 code is not valid there either.
How to check a casino licence yourself
Neither our word nor the casino’s needs to be taken on trust. The Curaçao Gaming Authority itself advises players to verify an operator through the licence register on its website, and this is the routine we use:
- Copy the company name and licence number from the casino’s footer or terms.
- Open the Curaçao Gaming Authority licence register and search by company name rather than brand name.
- Look at the number format. Register entries begin OGL/ or CGA/, while a /JAZ number comes from the old master system.
- Click the seal in the casino footer. The genuine CGA seal is a green box with the letters “CGA” in white, and it opens the licence certificate hosted on cert.cga.cw. If the seal is a flat image, or it opens some other site, it proves nothing.
- Confirm that the certificate names the domain you actually use, since a licence for one domain does not stretch to another. The Tobique entry, for example, listed luckymate.casino and none of the Australian domains.
- Finally, search the ACMA blocklist for the same domain.
An empty search on the company name leaves the licence claim unconfirmed, whatever the footer or the seal shows. For BrillianteFin Development N.V., the search came back empty.
A current Curaçao licence, even if one turned up, would not make it lawful to offer online casino games to people in Australia, nor would it give Australian players a local complaints body. Withdrawal complaints and reputation data sit beside the licence findings in our full legitimacy check.