{"id":32712,"date":"2020-12-02T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32712"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:04:51","slug":"crypto-com-secures-australian-licence-to-issue-crypto-visa-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/crypto-com-secures-australian-licence-to-issue-crypto-visa-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto.com secures Australian licence to issue crypto Visa cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto.com, the Hong Kong-based payments platform, said it has obtained an Australian Financial Services Licence to issue cryptocurrency-backed Visa cards.<\/p>\n<p>This was made possible by the acquisition of The Card Group Pty Ltd.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vCNztABJoG\">https:\/\/t.co\/vCNztABJoG<\/a> completed the acquisition of The Card Group Pty Ltd, securing an Australian Financial Service License.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb3 Preparations are underway to issue <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vCNztABJoG\">https:\/\/t.co\/vCNztABJoG<\/a> Visa Cards in Australia in 2021<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cYcyczo6Ix\">https:\/\/t.co\/cYcyczo6Ix<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z6bWdasrot\">pic.twitter.com\/z6bWdasrot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Crypto.com (@cryptocom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cryptocom\/status\/1333924012989112320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal for acquiring The Card Group Pty Ltd were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto.com chief executive Chris Marshalek noted that cooperating with regulators is foundational to the company&#8217;s future success and its ability to offer new services worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November, Crypto.com <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/malta-regulator-grants-in-principle-licenses-to-crypto-com\">received<\/a> approval from the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) for a financial-institution licence and a third-class VFA licence, which will allow it to operate legally in that country.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important stories and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong-based payments platform Crypto.com announced that it had received an Australian Financial Services Licence to issue cryptocurrency-backed Visa cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,1229,1452],"class_list":["post-32712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-australia","tag-banks-and-fintech","tag-crypto-com"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32714,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712\/revisions\/32714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}