bwin casino review
bwin holds a licence from the Malta Gaming Authority, a top-tier regulator, and scores 9.4 out of 10 for trust against other casinos licensed by top-tier regulators. Its fastest withdrawal is 3 days via Skrill, measured end to end from the withdrawal request to money in hand — not the operator's processing window alone. The minimum deposit is €10 (≈$10.9 at our 2026-07-16 rate). Regulators have taken 2 published actions against bwin or its predecessors, which we count against the score, and we are still checking the remaining regulators in its markets.
Fastest withdrawal
Minimum deposit
Countries served (14)
Ways to pay (11)
Game studios (5)
The record
- Licence
- Malta Gaming Authority (bwin Holdings Malta Limited / ElectraWorks Europe Limited, MGA/CRP/688/2019); Germany Gemeinsame Gluecksspielbehoerde der Laender / GGL (bwin (Deutschland) Limited, whitelisted for virtuelle Automatenspiele / online slots, Online-Poker and Sportwetten); United Kingdom Gambling Commission (bwin trading name under LC International Limited, account 54743 - reported, register not reachable to verify)
- Owner
- Established
- 1997
- Minimum deposit
- €10 (≈$10.9 at our 2026-07-16 rate)
How long the money actually takes
These are end-to-end times: from the moment you request a withdrawal to the moment it is spendable, including the operator's own review window. They are not the "instant" figure a cashier screen shows.
| Method | Time to your hands |
|---|---|
| Skrill fastest | 3 days |
| Neteller | 3 days |
| ecoPayz | 3 days |
| Visa | 9 days |
| Mastercard | 9 days |
| Bank Transfer | 9 days |
The welcome offer
We show this because you will be offered it. It is not part of any score on this site: a large bonus tells you what a casino spends on acquiring you, not how it treats you afterwards. What these terms actually cost, measured across every offer we hold.
100% deposit match up to EUR 100 on first deposit (40x wagering on deposit + bonus; slots weight 100%)
- Market
- at. Terms differ by market; this offer is not available everywhere
- Wagering
- 40 on deposit+bonus
- Maximum cashout
- EUR 2,000,000 (stated maximum withdrawal)
- Game weighting
- Slots 100% how much each game type counts toward the wagering requirement
What regulators have done about bwin
These are the actions we have found so far. We have not yet finished checking every regulator in this brand's markets, so treat this as a partial record. There may be more. Its trust score reflects what is listed here.
| Date | Regulator | Against | Amount | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (exact) | UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) | LC International Limited sister | GBP 14,000,000 | As part of a GBP 17 million Entain Group regulatory settlement announced by the Gambling Commission on 17 August 2022, LC International Limited (Entain's online business) agreed to pay GBP 14 million for anti-money laundering and social responsibility failures; a separate GBP 3 million fell on Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming Limited for its 2,746 retail premises (not recorded here - that is a Ladbrokes retail matter, a different brand). ATTRIBUTION = SISTER for bwin, deliberately NOT direct: the UKGC page states LC International 'runs 13 websites including ladbrokes.com, coral.co.uk and foxybingo.com', does not name bwin anywhere, and every cited conduct example is a Coral/Ladbrokes/shop customer. Although prior research reports bwin's UK-facing offering as a trading name under LC International Limited (UKGC account 54743), the regulator's decision concerns the licensee's Ladbrokes/Coral/Foxy Bingo operations, not bwin - and bwin.com itself is operated by the separate Entain subsidiary ElectraWorks. Per the project's attribution rule, a Ladbrokes/Coral-focused settlement against the shared licensee is a sister-attribution finding for bwin, not evidence of a bwin-specific sanction. Read via the Wayback Machine archived raw snapshot of the UKGC news article (live UKGC site DNS-blocks automated fetches); canonical gamblingcommission.gov.uk URL cited as source_url. source |
| (exact) | Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands Gambling Authority) | ElectraWorks Limited | EUR 350,000 | The Kansspelautoriteit imposed an administrative fine of EUR 350,000 on ElectraWorks Limited, the Gibraltar company that operated the website bwin.com, for offering online games of chance in the Netherlands without a licence between 3 August 2018 and 16 January 2019. The site offered sports betting and live casino games (roulette, blackjack, poker) and was found to target Dutch consumers, evidenced by the availability of the Dutch payment method iDEAL. Recorded as DIRECT for bwin: the sanctioned conduct was specifically the operation of bwin.com by its own operating company. The decision is final (onherroepelijk). Source is the KSA's own bwin case page; the linked sanctiebesluit PDF was present but not machine-readable. source |
| (exact) | UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) | ElectraWorks Limited | GBP 350,000 | The Gambling Commission fined ElectraWorks Limited GBP 350,000 for repeatedly misleading consumers with adverts relating to free bonuses, and issued a formal warning for failing to ensure the person responsible for marketing held a personal management licence. The originating and primary breach concerned bwin directly: on 17 August 2016 the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint against ElectraWorks over a free-bonus advert on its 'www.bwin.com' website, and a week later (24 August 2016) the Commission found a second advert on the Bwin website breaching the same CAP/BCAP code. Further similar breaches were later found on other ElectraWorks sites (casinoking.com, casinolasvegas.com, noblecasino.com, partycasino.com, partypoker.com, scasino.com). Recorded as DIRECT for bwin: the UKGC decision names ElectraWorks as the operator of www.bwin.com and the bwin.com advertising was the central originating conduct sanctioned; ElectraWorks is bwin.com's own operating/licensee company (consistent with the KSA action already on file). Read via the Wayback Machine archived copy of the UKGC news article (live UKGC site DNS-blocks automated fetches); the canonical gamblingcommission.gov.uk URL is cited as source_url. source |
Actions against a sister brand or a wider group are listed for context but do not affect this brand's score. Only actions against the brand itself or the company it grew out of do.
Where each of these facts came from
Every claim above is tied to the document we read it in. If a fact has no source here, it is not on this page — we drop unsourced data rather than publish it.
| Fact | Source | Read on |
|---|---|---|
| bonus headline | www.thespike.gg | 2026-07-17 |
| bonus market | www.thespike.gg | 2026-07-17 |
| countries allowed | win.gg | 2026-07-17 |
| established year | en.wikipedia.org | 2026-07-17 |
| game providers | win.gg | 2026-07-17 |
| game weighting | www.thespike.gg | 2026-07-17 |
| license authority | www.bwin.com | 2026-07-17 |
| license authority | www.gluecksspiel-behoerde.de | 2026-07-17 |
| license status | www.gluecksspiel-behoerde.de | 2026-07-17 |
| max cashout | win.gg | 2026-07-17 |
| min deposit | www.thespike.gg | 2026-07-17 |
| min deposit currency | www.thespike.gg | 2026-07-17 |
| owner company | en.wikipedia.org | 2026-07-17 |
| payment methods | win.gg | 2026-07-17 |
| payment methods | www.betting.co.uk | 2026-07-17 |
| payout hours by method | www.betting.co.uk | 2026-07-17 |
| wagering | www.thespike.gg | 2026-07-17 |
| wagering scope | www.thespike.gg | 2026-07-17 |
Questions people ask about bwin
Is bwin licensed, and by which regulator?
bwin is licensed by Malta Gaming Authority. The licence was active when we checked the regulator’s own public register on 18 July 2026. You can check it yourself in the register entry we used.
Who owns bwin?
bwin is owned through Entain plc (ultimate parent), listed on LSE: ENT. Ownership of these companies changes by takeover faster than most registers update, so we date it: this is the structure we recorded on 18 July 2026. Source: the filing we read.
Which other casinos share an owner with bwin?
bwin shares a corporate owner with 4 other casinos we have mapped: BetMGM, Coral, Ladbrokes, Sportingbet. This matters more than a trivia answer: a regulator’s finding against one brand in a group tells you something about the company running all of them, and a self-exclusion you set at one brand does not automatically stop at that brand.
Has bwin been fined by a gambling regulator?
Yes. We have recorded 3 published enforcement actions against bwin or the company it operates under. The most recent was by UK Gambling Commission on 17 August 2022, a GBP 14,000,000 penalty. Read the regulator’s published decision. Every action we hold is listed with its date, amount and source further up this page.
How long does a withdrawal from bwin actually take?
The fastest route we recorded is Skrill at 3 days. The slowest is Bank Transfer at 9 days. These are end-to-end times: from requesting the money to it being spendable, including the operator’s own review window. They are not the “instant” figure a cashier screen shows, which times only the last step. Source: the operator’s published terms.
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