Betfair Sister Sites

Licence family · PPB Counterparty Services Limited

BetfairPaddy Power

Every brand on licence 39411, 39426, 39435, 39439, 39561

Sister brand	Licence account	Network	Launched
Paddy Power	1034, 39411, 39426, 39439, 52819	Flutter Entertainment	—

All PPB Counterparty Services brands

How the group is structured

PPB Counterparty Services Limited holds account 39411, 39426, 39435, 39439, 39561 and trades under 2 names in the UK. Betfair is one of them; Paddy Power is the other. To the Gambling Commission that is one licensee with one set of licence conditions, however many separate websites the customer sees.

The operator runs more than one account — 39411, 39426, 39435, 39439, 39561 — which usually means separate licences for different product types or acquired companies kept on their original registration. Both are listed on the public register under the same licensee.

Commercially the group sits inside the Flutter Entertainment network, so you will often see these brands described together in industry coverage even where the licence record is what actually ties them.

This matters in one practical way: a decision made about your account at one of these 2 brands is made by the same company that runs the rest. Verification checks, source-of-funds requests and account restrictions are commonly applied across a licence rather than per brand.

How Betfair compares to its sister sites

All 2 brands on account 39411, 39426, 39435, 39439, 39561 answer to the same licensee, so the things set at licence level — complaints routing, funds protection, self-exclusion — are identical across them. What differs is set per brand: the welcome offer, the lobby, the payment methods on the cashier and the look of the site.

Is Betfair safe?

Betfair holds a current Gambling Commission licence under account 39411, 39426, 39435, 39439, 39561. That is the part you can verify yourself, and it is the part that matters: a UK licence brings segregated customer funds, a named alternative dispute resolution route, mandatory age verification and GAMSTOP participation.

What a licence does not tell you is how the operator behaves — how fast withdrawals clear, how it handles a disputed bonus, how heavy the verification is. That is worth reading reviews for. What we publish here is the record, not a score.

To check it yourself: open the Gambling Commission public register, search PPB Counterparty Services Limited, and confirm account 39411, 39426, 39435, 39439, 39561 lists Betfair as a trading name. It takes about thirty seconds and it is the only source that cannot be marketed at you.

Sites like Betfair

The closest alternatives are not a hand-picked list — they are the brands that share Betfair's licence. Same operator, same licence conditions, same complaints route, different site.

Paddy Power

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All PPB Counterparty Services brands

GAMSTOP and self-exclusion

Because Betfair is licensed by the Gambling Commission, a GAMSTOP self-exclusion blocks it. It also blocks every other brand on account 39411, 39426, 39435, 39439, 39561 — Paddy Power — and every other UK-licensed gambling site, in one registration.

This is the reason the "sister site" question matters to people who have self-excluded. You cannot get round GAMSTOP by moving to a sibling brand, and any site advertising itself as outside GAMSTOP is not UK-licensed. We do not list those, and we do not link to them.

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