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MSB registration, remittance & crypto services
Company formation, crypto, fiat payments or a new operating base. Understand what a jurisdiction could solve, what it requires and how to take the next step through PAYMESE.
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MSB registration, remittance & crypto services
EU company setup, crypto & payment operations
MiCA authorisation & regulated operating models
Payment institutions, e-money & MiCA
Company administration, fintech & MiCA
EU crypto operations & business setup
Payment institutions, e-money & crypto status
Company formation, payment firms & UK market entry
Dubai, Abu Dhabi & activity-specific market entry
Activity-led crypto and fintech structures
Virtual-asset businesses & entity structuring
Payment services & digital payment tokens
Virtual-asset platforms & Asian business operations
Money transmission, digital assets & payment infrastructure
Cross-border crypto, payments & e-money
Payment services, wallets & virtual assets
Crypto services, payments & market access
VASP licences, payment services & investment dealers
Remittance, virtual asset services & financial infrastructure
Virtual asset services & local payment infrastructure
Digital asset services & Bitcoin business models
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| What matters | Mauritius |
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| Why consider it | Start by separating the activities customers will use. If your proposed business combines a wallet, fiat transfers and securities dealing, record which legal entity would provide each service. The Financial Services Commission, Mauritius (FSC) also licenses capital-markets intermediaries such as investment dealers. Check the exact dealer licence category and permitted activities rather than relying on the description in a sale proposal. |
| Crypto services | The FSC regulates and supervises virtual asset service providers and issuers of initial token offerings under the Virtual Asset and Initial Token Offering Services Act 2021 (VAITOS Act), in force since February 2022. The VASP classes are M (Virtual Asset Broker-Dealer), O (Virtual Asset Wallet Services), R (Virtual Asset Custodian), I (Virtual Asset Advisory Services) and S (Virtual Asset Market Place, or exchange). Verify the classes held by the target in the FSC register and match them to the proposed services. Holding one class does not authorise activities that require another. |
| PSP & fiat services | The Bank of Mauritius licenses payment service providers under the National Payment Systems Act 2018. Review the specific payment services and conditions covered by the licence. The Act does not allow a licence to be transferred unless the central bank specifies otherwise in writing. Ask advisers how the licence and its conditions apply to the proposed ownership change. Banks and licensees under that Act need prior written approval from the Bank of Mauritius before applying for VASP permissions. For Classes M, O and S, the application must be made through a separate subsidiary. |
| Company & operations | FSC guidance says a VASP applicant must be a Mauritian company carrying on business in or from Mauritius, directed and managed there, with a physical office there. Its controllers, beneficial owners and officers must meet the FSC’s fit-and-proper criteria. The FSC FAQ says prior approval is required for share transfers that change control or fall outside the notification-only thresholds. It also identifies appointments of controllers, beneficial owners and officers as requiring FSC approval. Confirm what the proposed transaction and appointments trigger before agreeing how to close. |
| Tax & total cost | Give your advisers the proposed ownership chart and explain where decisions, work and customer relationships will sit. Ask them to review the actual transaction structure and set out which tax and reporting matters belong to the company, its owners or another group entity. |
| Banking fit | Trace a customer payment and a settlement from start to finish. Identify who provides the accounts and settlement services, which relationships the target relies on and what each partner would need to review after an ownership change. Check how the business handles failed settlements, unresolved balances and escalation to its partners. |
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Compare tax and operating considerationsSometimes a structure can combine them, but each activity needs to be mapped. Identify who holds assets, moves customer money, issues stored value and supplies software. The answer may involve several permissions or separate licensed partners. A software platform alone does not provide the right to perform regulated services.
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