Who owns Racebets?

As of 15 Oct 2026: Racebets is owned by Betsson AB, the Swedish gaming group listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. The site footer names RaceBets International Gaming Limited in St Julian's, Malta, with Malta Gaming Authority licence MGA/CRP/108/2004. Racebets is a betting site with a focus on horse racing. Germany is one of its main markets.

Ultimate owner	Betsson AB (listed (Nasdaq Stockholm: BETS B))
Operating company	RaceBets International Gaming Limited, Malta
Licences	Germany — GGL MGA (MGA/CRP/108/2004) Ireland — Revenue (National Excise Licence Office) 1010277
Products	Sports betting
Website	racebets.com
Also runs as	racebets.de
Sister casinos	17
Fines and actions	Racebets’s own company: 0 · whole Betsson AB group: 6
Owner proof	verified
Last checked	15 Oct 2026

In numbers

Betsson AB owns 18 casino and betting brands (37 websites) in our data.
6 fines and regulator actions against the owner since 2020, about €2.4 million in total (converted to euros).
Licensed in 2 countries: DE, IE.

Who is behind it

Betsson runs Betsson, Betsafe, NordicBet and around 20 other brands on its own Techsson platform. Its operations are largely in Malta. In 2020 it bought the consumer brands of Gaming Innovation Group, such as Rizk, Guts, Kaboo and Thrills. Betsson's own brand pages list Racebets.

Racebets also has a separate German site, racebets.de.

Licence and what it means for you

RaceBets International Gaming Limited is on the German GGL whitelist for horse betting. German rules apply to players in Germany, including a cross-operator monthly deposit limit, and OASIS self-exclusion covers all whitelisted sites. Irish Revenue lists the company as a remote bookmaker (1010277). The Malta licence was first issued in 2010. It does not replace the licence of your own country.

Licence records

Regulator	Type	Valid	Check it
Germany — GGL	—	active	register
MGA MGA/CRP/108/2004	corporate licence	2018-08-01 –	register
Ireland — Revenue (National Excise Licence Office) 1010277	Remote Bookmaker's Licence	active	register

What each licence means, and self-exclusion

What a GGL licence means · self-exclusion: OASIS
What an MGA licence means

Sister sites

Racebets is the group's horse racing specialist. Its nearest sisters are the other betting brands: Betsson, Betsafe, NordicBet and Fuksiarz. Betsson AB has 17 other brands in our data. A self-exclusion at Racebets may not cover them; in Germany, OASIS covers all whitelisted sites.

17 sister casinos

Same owner often means the same terms, the same support team and the same payout rules. A self-exclusion at one brand may not cover its sister sites.

Does self-exclusion at Racebets cover its sister sites? · How national self-exclusion schemes work

Fines and regulator actions

No fine or action in our data names RaceBets International Gaming Limited or Racebets. We hold none from Germany's GGL, the Malta Gaming Authority or Irish Revenue against it. The wider Betsson AB group has 6 entries, half of them from Sweden's Spelinspektionen against other group companies.

All 6 fines and regulator actions, with sources

None of these 6 names Racebets’s own company; they concern other companies of the Betsson AB group. The company column names who was fined.

Fines from the 40 regulators, prosecutors and courts we track, online gambling only; fines against land-based casinos are out of scope. How we count fines.

Date	Company	Regulator / court	Amount	Reason
2025-11-26	BS Nordic Ltd	Spelinspektionen (Sweden)	—	Remark and order over consumer information duties (Betsafe). source
2025-06-02	Betsson Nordic Ltd	Spelinspektionen (Sweden)	SEK 6,500,000	Customer due-diligence (AML) failures; warning. Upheld by court. source
2025-02-04	Premiere Megaplex, PLC	Spain — DGOJ	EUR 75,000	Used technical systems that were not approved, e.g. moving gambling data to a new data centre without approval. Nominal fine €125.000; reduced to €75.000 after the firm admitted liability and paid early. Case ES/2025/006; DGOJ lists it under 2025. source
2022-08-02	Lošimų strateginė grupė, UAB (Betsafe)	Lithuania — LPT	EUR 25,000	Advertising breach: promotional newsletter sent to about 10,400 customers (date is the report date). source
2022-04-06	BML Group (Betsson)	Norway — Lotteritilsynet	—	Notice that a daily coercive fine was being considered for marketing gambling to Norwegians without a licence. source
2020-06-08	Betsson Nordic Ltd	Spelinspektionen (Sweden)	SEK 20,000,000	Warning and fine for an unregistered gaming agent and an unlawful bonus. source

About Betsson AB

Swedish-listed multi-brand operator running Betsson, Betsafe, NordicBet and around 20 other brands on its own Techsson platform. It bought Gaming Innovation Group's consumer brands (Rizk, Guts, Kaboo, Thrills) in 2020. Strong presence in the Nordics, Baltics, Italy and Latin America.

Headquarters: Sweden (operations largely in Malta) · Founded: 1963 · Ownership: listed (Nasdaq Stockholm: BETS B)

How we know, and what we could not confirm

How we know: Listed on Betsson Group's own brand pages. Site footer names RaceBets International Gaming Ltd (St Julian's, Malta), MGA licence MGA/CRP/108/2004 (first issued 2010); Irish Revenue also lists it as a remote bookmaker (1010277).

We have no company registration number for RaceBets International Gaming Limited.

Betsson AB sister sites, fines and sources →

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Often compared

Are Betsson and Racebets owned by the same company? Yes, both are owned by Betsson AB.
Are Betsafe and Racebets owned by the same company? Yes, both are owned by Betsson AB.
Are NordicBet and Racebets owned by the same company? Yes, both are owned by Betsson AB.