{"id":71365,"date":"2022-12-12T19:49:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=71365"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:18:25","slug":"moonpay-secures-uk-regulator-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/moonpay-secures-uk-regulator-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonPay secures UK regulator approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has added MoonPay, an infrastructure provider, to the register of registered cryptocurrency companies. The information <a href=\"https:\/\/register.fca.org.uk\/s\/search?predefined=CA\">\u0440\u0430\u0437\u043c\u0435\u0449\u0435\u043d\u0430<\/a> on the regulator&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The FCA&#8217;s decision took effect on 9 December and reflects the firm&#8217;s compliance with anti-money-laundering regulations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-12-12-v-18 39 16-1024x342.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2022-12-12-v-18 39 16\" class=\"wp-image-193176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-12-12-v-18%2039%2016-1024x342.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-12-12-v-18%2039%2016-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-12-12-v-18%2039%2016-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-12-12-v-18%2039%2016.png 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>\u0414\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435: \u0441\u0430\u0439\u0442 FCA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier, the regulator said that 73% of cryptocurrency firms&#8217; applications were either withdrawn or rejected, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2022\/12\/12\/crypto-payments-app-moonpay-gains-uk-regulator-registration\/\">CoinDesk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This is the most significant indicator we&#8217;ve had to date,&#8221; said Sarah Pritchard, FCA&#8217;s Director of Markets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, the UK regulator <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/krakens-uk-unit-secures-fca-licence\">granted approval<\/a> to Kraken&#8217;s subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fidelity-digital-assets-secures-uk-regulators-approval\">The FCA issued Fidelity Digital Assets<\/a> a license to operate with digital assets and registered the firm as an entity subject to anti-money-laundering rules.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, MoonPay <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/smi-moonpay-zapustil-servis-dlya-pokupki-nft-pri-pomoshhi-platezhnyh-kart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u0437\u0430\u043f\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043b<\/a> \u0441\u0435\u0440\u0432\u0438\u0441 \u043f\u043e \u043f\u043e\u043a\u0443\u043f\u043a\u0435 NFT \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c \u043f\u043b\u0430\u0442\u0435\u0436\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u043a\u0430\u0440\u0442. A month earlier, the startup <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/moonpay-sozdal-servis-pokupok-nft-dlya-znamenitostej\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u0441\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0430\u043b<\/a> \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0441\u044c\u0435\u0440\u0436-\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0436\u0431\u0443 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0435\u0442\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u043d\u0435\u0432\u0437\u0430\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0437\u0430\u043c\u0435\u043d\u044f\u0435\u043c\u044b\u0445 \u0442\u043e\u043a\u0435\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u0438 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u044e\u0442.<\/p>\n<p>\u0427\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 ForkLog \u0432 \u043d\u0430\u0448\u0435\u043c <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 \u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u044e\u0442, \u043a\u0443\u0440\u0441\u044b \u0438 \u0430\u043d\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has added MoonPay, an infrastructure provider, to the register of registered cryptocurrency companies. The regulator&#8217;s website carries the information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1629,810],"class_list":["post-71365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-moonpay","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71365","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=71365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71367,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71365\/revisions\/71367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}