LC International Limited in a nutshell
LC International Limited holds UK Gambling Commission licence 54743, and it’s the online arm of Entain, the FTSE group that owns Ladbrokes Coral. This single licence carries Ladbrokes, Coral, Foxy Bingo, Foxy Games, Gala Bingo, Gala Casino, Gala Spins, Party Casino, Party Poker, bwin and Sportingbet, with permissions spanning sport, casino, bingo, pool betting and poker. The famous Ladbrokes and Coral betting shops sit on a separate retail licence. There’s also a major 2022 regulatory settlement of £14 million against this online business worth knowing about, covered in full below.
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At a glance
Company reviewed
LC International Limited
Parent group
Entain plc, via Ladbrokes Coral
UKGC licence
54743
Head office on UKGC record
Suite 6, Atlantic Suites, Gibraltar, GX11 1AA
Licence permissions
Casino, bingo, betting (real and virtual), betting intermediary and pool betting
Main brands
Ladbrokes, Coral, Foxy Bingo, Gala Bingo, Party Casino, bwin
Regulatory history
£14m settlement in 2022, part of a record £17m Entain outcome
Last checked
16 June 2026
The LC International Limited brands worth knowing
This is a rare network where almost every brand is a proper household name, which makes the choice about product preferences. Ladbrokes and Coral are the heritage bookmakers, near-twins online since the merger. Foxy and Gala are the bingo-and-casino brands. Party Casino and Party Poker carry the old PartyGaming DNA. bwin is the European sports giant. The six profiles below cover every corner of what this one licence offers, from sportsbook to bingo room to poker table.
Ladbrokes
- Licence position: ladbrokes.com is an active brand on licence 54743, the online face of a brand dating to 1886.
- Identity: The classic British bookmaker, sportsbook-first, with a casino, bingo and games wing alongside and one of the most recognisable names in UK betting.
- Welcome: Bet £5, Get £30 in free bets, with a separate casino welcome carrying the legal 10x maximum wagering and no wagering on free-spin winnings.
- Worth knowing: The online Ladbrokes you bet with is LC International Limited, a different licensed company from the Ladbrokes betting shops on the high street.
- My take: The default pick for a recognisable, full-service sportsbook, and the brand most people picture when they think of this group.
Coral
- Licence position: coral.co.uk is an active brand on the same licence, the near-twin of Ladbrokes since the 2016 merger.
- Identity: A heritage bookmaker going back to 1926, sportsbook-led with a casino and a strong bingo presence, slightly warmer in tone than its sibling.
- Welcome: A sports offer along the Bet £5, Get £30 lines, plus a separate Coral Casino welcome built around free spins, with any bonus funds held to the 10x cap.
- Next to Ladbrokes: The two are so closely aligned online that the choice is mostly habit and look, not substance, since both run on the same licence and platform.
- My take: Pick it over Ladbrokes on feel rather than fact, and don’t treat the two as independent second opinions.
Foxy Bingo
- Licence position: foxybingo.com is an active casino on account 54743, with a sister brand, Foxy Games, on the same licence.
- Identity: The cheeky, heavily advertised bingo-and-slots brand, one of the best-known bingo names in Britain thanks to years of TV marketing.
- Welcome: A bingo-led deposit offer, with any games or slots element capped at 10x wagering under the rules in force since January 2026.
- Where it differs: This is where the group reaches the bingo audience the Ladbrokes and Coral sportsbooks don’t, with a distinct personality of its own.
- My take: The pick if bingo and a lively brand are what you came for, rather than a sportsbook with bingo bolted on.
Gala Bingo
- Licence position: galabingo.com, galacasino.com and galaspins.com are all active domains on the licence, a three-way split of one famous name.
- Identity: A heritage bingo-and-casino brand with deep land-based roots, now split online into a bingo room, a casino and a slots-led Spins site.
- Welcome: Product-specific deposit offers across the three sites, bingo-led on Gala Bingo and games-led on Gala Casino and Gala Spins, all under the 10x ceiling.
- Where it differs: Gala Bingo gives the group a second strong bingo brand alongside Foxy, plus a more traditional casino face in Gala Casino.
- My take: Choose the Gala door that matches your style, Bingo for tickets, Casino for tables, Spins for slots, since they share an owner but not a focus.
Party Casino
- Licence position: partycasino.com and partypoker.com are both active domains on account 54743, carrying the old PartyGaming names.
- Identity: Party Casino is a slots-and-tables casino brand; Party Poker is one of the more recognisable online poker rooms, a heritage name in the game.
- Welcome: A casino deposit offer on Party Casino and poker-specific promotions on Party Poker, with any casino bonus funds held to the 10x maximum.
- Where it differs: Party Poker is the only real poker specialist on this licence, so for cash games and tournaments it’s the in-family choice by default.
- My take: Party Casino is a solid casino alternative to the bookmaker brands, and Party Poker is the one to pick if poker, not slots, is the point.
bwin
- Licence position: bwin.com is an active brand on the licence, with Sportingbet and Gamebookers also present as further sports-led names.
- Identity: A major European sports betting brand, better known on the continent than in Britain, giving the group an international sportsbook face.
- Welcome: A sportsbook-led offer, with any casino element separate and capped at the 10x maximum, in line with current UK rules.
- Where it differs: bwin, Sportingbet and Gamebookers are the more internationally flavoured sports brands here, distinct from the very British Ladbrokes and Coral.
- My take: Worth a look if you want a sportsbook with a continental accent, though most UK punters will find Ladbrokes or Coral the more natural home.
Online here, betting shops elsewhere
The single most important thing to understand about LC International Limited is what it isn’t. It’s the online business, the one Gibraltar-based company that runs the group’s websites and apps. The Ladbrokes and Coral betting shops you walk past on the high street are run by a separate Entain company, Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming Limited, on a separate retail licence. Same famous names, same ultimate parent, two different licensed operators. So when you read about a Ladbrokes fine or a Coral promotion, it’s worth knowing whether it concerns the online arm covered here or the shops, because they’re regulated as distinct businesses.
Within the online licence itself, the practical reality is the usual single-licence one, only on a grander scale. Ladbrokes, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Party and bwin all sit under the same operator, so account checks, safer gambling history and bonus eligibility can carry across the brands rather than resetting each time you sign up somewhere new. The group has also been explicitly criticised by the regulator in the past for letting customers who were subject to anti-money laundering restrictions open accounts across its different brands, which is exactly the cross-brand behaviour a shared licence makes possible. Treat the whole stable as one company, because for verification and affordability purposes, it is.
From two old bookmakers to one corner of Entain
The names on this licence carry a lot of history. Ladbrokes was established in 1886 and Coral in 1926, two of the oldest bookmaking names in Britain. They spent more than a century as rivals before merging in November 2016 to create Ladbrokes Coral Group, then Britain’s biggest bookmaker. The combined company didn’t stay independent for long: in March 2018, GVC Holdings completed a takeover worth up to around £4 billion, and in 2020 GVC renamed itself Entain.
That sequence explains the brand mix on the licence. The Gala and Foxy names came through the old Gala Coral side of the merger, while Party Casino, partypoker and bwin trace back to GVC’s earlier acquisitions of the PartyGaming and bwin.party businesses. LC International Limited is where Entain gathered the great majority of these consumer brands under one remote licence for Britain, with its current permissions running from July 2019, shortly after the GVC deal reshaped the group.
The basic version of the company for British players is straightforward: Entain is the parent group, Ladbrokes Coral is the historic business inside it, and LC International Limited is the specific licensed company that runs the online brands you actually log into.
The right LC International Limited brand for your kind of play
If you want a full-service sportsbook
Ladbrokes or Coral are the near-identical heritage bookmakers, with sport up front and casino, bingo and games alongside. Pick on feel.
If bingo is the main event
Foxy Bingo and Gala Bingo are the group’s two big bingo names, with Foxy the louder personality and Gala the more traditional room.
If you want a dedicated casino
Gala Casino or Party Casino are the strongest casino-first options, rather than a sportsbook’s casino wing.
If poker is your game
Party Poker is the only dedicated poker room on the licence, and a recognisable name in the game.
If you want an international sportsbook
bwin brings a continental betting flavour that the very British Ladbrokes and Coral don’t.
Licensing, permissions and the 2022 settlement
LC International Limited is licensed for Britain under UKGC account 54743, with its head office at Suite 6, Atlantic Suites, Gibraltar. Its current permissions run from 1 July 2019 and are unusually broad, covering remote casino, bingo, general betting for real and virtual events, betting intermediary and pool betting. That full-suite permission set is what lets a single licence carry a sportsbook giant, several bingo brands, multiple casinos and a poker room all at once.
The company’s regulatory history is chequered. On 17 August 2022, the Gambling Commission announced a regulatory settlement with Entain that was, at the time, its largest enforcement outcome on record: a total of £17 million, split as £14 million for failures at LC International Limited, the online business covered here, and £3 million for failures at the separate retail company, Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming Limited. The failings, covering December 2019 to October 2020, concerned anti-money laundering and social responsibility shortcomings: inadequate risk controls, customers allowed to deposit very large sums without sufficient source-of-funds checks, weak customer interaction with people showing signs of harm, and customers under AML restrictions being able to open accounts across the group’s brands. The settlement included a divestment and licence conditions, among them a requirement for a board member to oversee an improvement plan and a third-party audit within twelve months.
Two points of context matter. First, this came after an earlier £5.9 million settlement in 2019 covering similar failings between 2014 and 2017, and the Commission’s chief executive warned at the time that further serious breaches could put Entain’s licence at risk. Second, the current licence register for account 54743 lists no open regulatory actions, because these were concluded settlements rather than live sanctions, but the record is still recent and material. The best reading for a player is to expect rigorous affordability, identity and source-of-funds checks across all these brands, precisely because this operator has been penalised for not doing enough of that in the past.
Bonuses across the LC International Limited brands
Because this licence spans sport, casino, bingo and poker, the welcome offers vary by brand and by product rather than following one template. On the sportsbook side, Ladbrokes and Coral run recognisable bet-and-get deals, along the lines of Bet £5, Get £30 in free bets, paid as several smaller free bets after a qualifying wager at modest minimum odds, with the free-bet stake not returned. On the casino side, both run separate casino welcomes built around free spins and a deposit-linked bonus.
Two current UK rules shape everything here. Since January 2026, casino bonus funds are capped at 10x wagering, the legal maximum, and the brands’ casino offers reflect that, with Ladbrokes Casino and Coral Casino bonus funds carrying the 10x figure and free-spin winnings typically paid with no wagering attached. Just as importantly, mixed offers that bundle sport and casino into one welcome are now banned, so you’ll find a sports offer or a casino offer, not a combined one.
The bingo brands, Foxy and the Gala sites, run bingo-led deposit offers in keeping with the rest of the UK bingo market, while Party Poker runs poker-specific promotions rather than a slots bonus. None of these offers is the real reason to choose this group; the draw is the brands, the breadth and the familiarity. As always, the live promotions page on each brand is the only version worth trusting on the day you join, because exact figures and qualifying terms shift.
Payments, withdrawals and KYC
As you’d expect from brands of this size, the cashier is accommodating and conventional: debit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, bank transfer and the usual e-wallets feature across the brands, with low minimum deposits in the £5 to £10 range typical for the sportsbooks. One recurring detail worth noting is that the welcome offers often exclude certain deposit methods, with PayPal, Paysafe, Skrill and Neteller deposits commonly not qualifying for a sports free-bet welcome, so fund by debit card if the offer matters to you.
Withdrawal experience at brands this large is generally serviceable rather than remarkable: e-wallets are quickest, while cards and bank transfers are slower, and the real variable, as ever, is verification. Given this operator’s enforcement history, particularly regarding AML and affordability, expect thorough checks. Identity, age, address and payment-ownership verification before a first withdrawal are standard, and source-of-funds requests are a possibility as deposits or losses climb, more so here than at a smaller operator that hasn’t been through two settlements on exactly those points.
One licence, every product under the sun
What makes LC International Limited stand out from most operators on the register is sheer breadth. The full permission set means this one company can offer a serious sportsbook, multiple casinos, two major bingo brands, a slots-led site and a heritage poker room, all under a single licence. Few operators cover that much ground. For a player, it means almost whatever you want to do- sport, slots, tables, bingo, poker- there’s a brand on this licence built for it, and the underlying account checks and safer gambling tools are consistent across them.
The trade-off is that breadth isn’t the same as best-in-class. A dedicated slots specialist may offer a deeper casino library than Party Casino or Gala Casino, a pure poker operator may run bigger fields than Party Poker now does, and a no-wagering specialist will beat these brands’ bonus terms. What this group offers instead is reach and recognition: established names, full product coverage, and, for those who value it, the reassurance of a FTSE-listed parent. Judge it as a popular, mainstream stable rather than a collection of category leaders, and it makes sense.
Support and complaints
Support is handled brand by brand, with each site running its own help centre, live chat and contact routes rather than one shared LC International Limited desk. A Ladbrokes query starts at Ladbrokes, a Gala Bingo issue at Gala Bingo, and so on. The brands are large enough to offer reasonably well-staffed help centres and live chat, though as with any big operator, complex account, verification or bonus disputes can take persistence.
Main player route
Each brand’s own help centre and live chat
Dispute resolution
Independent ADR via the brand’s named scheme after deadlock
Operator
LC International Limited, UKGC account 54743
Parent
Entain plc
The disputes most likely on this licence cluster around verification holds, affordability and source-of-funds requests, and bonus eligibility, which is unsurprising given the group’s enforcement history on exactly those themes. For any of them, keep a written trail from the start: record offer terms at opt-in, save deposit and qualifying-bet confirmations, and keep chat transcripts. Escalate to the brand’s formal complaints process the moment chat stops progressing, and beyond deadlock you can take the matter to the operator’s named independent ADR provider for free adjudication, as at any UKGC operator. The Commission regulates the company; it doesn’t settle individual payout arguments.
What I like, and what I don’t
What I like
- A broad stable of household names, covering sport, casino, bingo and poker under one licence.
- The backing of a FTSE-listed parent in Entain, with the financial substance that implies.
- Recognisable, well-supported brands with conventional payments and low sportsbook minimums.
- Post-January 2026 casino bonuses held to the 10x cap, with free-spin winnings often paid with no wagering.
What I don’t
- A heavily tarnished regulatory record, including a £14m settlement against this online business in 2022 after an earlier £5.9m one in 2019.
- Ladbrokes and Coral are so alike online that they’re not really independent choices.
- Breadth over depth, with several brands beaten on their own turf by specialists.
- Expect rigorous, sometimes intrusive affordability and source-of-funds checks across the brands.
My final verdict on LC International Limited
LC International Limited is one of the most important names on the UK register that hardly any player could name, because it’s the online engine behind a row of brands everyone knows. The first thing to take away is that this is Entain’s website business, separate from the Ladbrokes and Coral betting shops, so judge it as the online operator it is. The second is balance. On one side, real breadth and recognition, sport, casino, bingo and poker under one roof, with a FTSE parent behind it. On the other, a regulatory history that’s far more than just a footnote: £14 million against this exact company in 2022, on top of £5.9 million in 2019, both for anti-money laundering and player-protection failures. Neither cancels the other. These are fully licensed, mainstream brands that are also brands the regulator has penalised and is watching. So pick by product: Ladbrokes or Coral for a familiar sportsbook, Foxy or Gala for bingo, Party Casino or Gala Casino for tables, partypoker for poker, bwin for an international slant, and go in expecting thorough checks rather than a quiet ride. The famous names are waiting, the choice is wide, but the paperwork tells you to keep your own records and take the verification seriously from day one.
FAQs about LC International Limited
What is LC International Limited?
It’s the online arm of Entain’s Ladbrokes Coral business, a Gibraltar-based company licensed by the UK Gambling Commission under account 54743. It runs the group’s websites, including Ladbrokes, Coral, Foxy Bingo, Gala, Party Casino and bwin.
Which brands does LC International Limited run?
The main ones are Ladbrokes, Coral, Foxy Bingo, Foxy Games, Gala Bingo, Gala Casino, Gala Spins, Party Casino, PartyPoker, bwin, and Sportingbet, all on the same UKGC licence.
Is LC International Limited the same as the Ladbrokes betting shops?
No. LC International Limited is the online business. The Ladbrokes and Coral betting shops are run by a separate Entain company, Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming Limited, on a different retail licence.
Who owns LC International Limited?
It’s part of Entain plc, the FTSE-listed group that owns Ladbrokes Coral. Ladbrokes and Coral merged in 2016, were bought by GVC Holdings in 2018, and GVC renamed itself Entain in 2020.
Is LC International Limited licensed in the UK?
Yes. It holds UKGC account 54743, with permissions covering casino, bingo, real and virtual betting, betting intermediary and pool betting, all running since July 2019.
Has LC International Limited been penalised by the Gambling Commission?
Yes. In August 2022 it paid £14 million as part of a record £17 million Entain settlement, for anti-money laundering and social responsibility failings between December 2019 and October 2020. This followed an earlier £5.9 million settlement in 2019.
Are Ladbrokes and Coral the same thing online?
Almost. They’re separate brands but run on the same licence and platform and are very closely aligned online, so they shouldn’t be treated as independent alternatives to each other.
Does LC International Limited run poker and bingo too?
Yes. partypoker is the group’s poker room, while Foxy Bingo and the Gala sites cover bingo, alongside the sportsbooks and casinos, all on the one licence.
What are the welcome offers like?
Sportsbook brands like Ladbrokes and Coral run bet-and-get free-bet deals around Bet £5, Get £30, with separate casino offers whose bonus funds carry the 10x maximum wagering since January 2026. Mixed sport-and-casino welcomes are no longer allowed.
Should I expect strict checks?
Yes. Given the group’s enforcement history around anti-money laundering and affordability, expect thorough identity, payment and source-of-funds checks, especially as stakes rise. Verify your account early to avoid withdrawal delays.