Following news on Friday 10th October 2025 that Legend Trading’s Irish subsidiary Legend Financial Ireland Limited secured its MiCAR authorisation in the European Union from the Central Bank of Ireland, Fintech Ireland updated and issued its 'Ireland's Regulated Fintech Ecosystem Map (Payments Crypto & Crowdfunding)'.  Welcome to Version 19 of that Map! 

Thanks to CompliReg for powering the Map.  Check out their services HERE.

Things are moving fast in the world of Ireland's Regulated Fintech Ecosystem.  A fortnight ago we released Version 18 of the Map. We are now at Version 19 thanks to the authorisation of Legend Financial Ireland Limited by the Central Bank of Ireland.  You can find information about Version 18 HERE.

The Fintech Ireland Map records only those companies which are registered or authorised.  Any discrepancy between the Map and the Central Bank's registers is due to the fact the Central Bank does not remove the names of e-money and payments firms that withdraw authorisation but instead mark these with the withdrawal date.

We expect to see more and more fintechs achieve authorisation from the Central Bank in coming weeks, so keep an eye of this website.  And get along to the Fintech Ireland Summit on Thursday 27th November 2025 where we will take a deeper dive into this topic.

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If your logo or name has changed, please email us at [email protected] with your newer logo (in jpeg / png format) and any name change.  If your company is not on the relevant Map and you wish to join, please start the process by completing the Fintech Ireland Survey. it.

As part of the Fintech Ireland's Fintech Bridge presentation at the Ireland Hong Kong Business Forum & Hong Kong Trade Development Council event last night (29 September 2025), we released an updated Map of the 88 licenses issued by the Central Bank of Ireland.

There are a number of points to note about the Map.  Thanks to CompliReg, leading fintech authorisation specialist across Europe and the UK.

Firstly, we officially welcome:

• Currenxie Technologies Limited and Paycom Europe Limited to the Map. Currenxie is authorised as an Electronic Money Institution with payment services 3b, 3c, 5.  Paycom is authorised as a Payments Institution with permissions 3(a) and 3(c). We were delighted that the team from Currenxie joined us at last night's event. 
• Kraken, otherwise known as Payward Europe Solutions Limited and Payward Global Solutions Limited. Thus Kraken effectively (and for the time being) three crypto across two legal entitles according to the Central Bank Registers, i.e. 1 VASP registration (Payward Europe Solutions) and 2 x CASP authorisations  (Payward Europe Solutions and Payward Global Solutions).

Secondly, we remember those that left the Map this year (and thus far):

• Facebook Payments International Limited
• AVANTCARD DAC (Avant Money) - authorisation withdrawn 28 April 2025
• Bureau Buttercrane Limited, which leaves the map in name only following its rebranding to Lemfi Europe Limited follow an acquisition

Thirdly, the Map records only those companies which are registered or authorised.  Any discrepancy between the Map and the Central Bank's registers is due to the fact the Central Bank does not remove the names of e-money and payments firms that withdraw authorisation but instead mark these with the withdrawal date.

In preparing for last night's presentation we re-confirmed some fun facts about Ireland's fintech and finserv industries. Did you know that:

• The Central Bank of Ireland regulates 13,000 firms?
• Ireland is the 3rd largest exporter of financial services in Europe and is ranked 8th globally?
• 250+ of the world's largest finservs have operations in Ireland, including 22 of the world's top finservs and 21 of the top global banks?
• €5.1 trillion of net assets are domiciled in Ireland?
• 142,000 people are employed in financial services in Ireland with 60,100 of them employed directly in international financial services? Fintech Ireland reckons that of these, 9,000 are employed in fintech.
  
• 106,000+ people are technology sector employees and that 16 of the top 20 global tech companies operate in and from Ireland? 

• Learn more about the Irish Fintech Ecosystem at the Fintech Ireland Summit on Thursday 28 November 2025 here 
• You can find the Map here.
• You can find Fintech Ireland's presentation on a Fintech Bridge between Ireland and Hong Kong here
• You can find the slides to most of the events that Fintech Ireland has presented here​

It is a busy Q4 2024 in the Irish crypto asset sector with 6 Virtual Asset Services Providers obtain registration with the Central Bank of Ireland.  And all six are very welcome to the Fintech Ireland and MiCA Ready Fintech Maps.  Special thanks to the CompliReg for sponsoring and supporting this edition (version 9) of the the Virtual Asset Service Providers Map.    

Joining the Irish Fintech Ecosystem are:

1. CoinJar Europe Limited - registered to provide services: #i, ii, iii & iv *
2. Figure Markets Ireland Ltd - registered to provide services: #iii
3. Legend Financial Ireland Limited - registered to provide services: #i & ii
4. HashKey Europe Limited - registered to provide services #i, ii, iii & iv
5. Fidelity Digital Assets Ireland Ltd - registered to provide services #i, iii & iv
6. StoneX Digital International Ltd - registered to provide services ##i, ii, iii & iv

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* Service Provided as appearing on Central Bank Register as at 4 December 2024:

(i) Provision of exchange services between virtual assets and fiat currencies
(ii) Exchange between one or more forms of virtual assets;
(iii) Transfer (to conduct a transaction on behalf of another natural or legal person that
moves a virtual asset from one virtual asset address or account to another) of virtual assets
(iv) Custodian wallet providers


The above six VASPs bring the total number of Registered VASPs in Ireland to 21, joining these other 15 VASPs.

• Gemini Intergalactic Europe Limited
• Zodia Custody (Ireland) Limited 
• Coinbase Europe Limited 
• Coinbase Custody International Limited 
• Paysafe Payment Solutions Limited
• Payward Europe Solutions Limited (Kraken)
• NoFrixion Limited
• Pionew Ireland Limited
• Moonpay Technology Services Limited                
• Zodia Markets (Ireland) Limited 
• Ripple Markets Ireland Limited
• Fortuna Digital Custody Ltd
• Ramp Swaps (Ireland) Limited
• Foris DAX Global Limited (Crypto.com)
• Sors Digital Assets Limited

The increase in the number of Registered VASPs brings the total number of Authorised and Registered Fintechs to at least 82 players.  This definition of fintech covers VASPs, Emoney Firms, Payment Institutions, AISPs and PISPs authorised or registered in Ireland. There are other firms, such as MiFID firms that are likely fintech and will include those we identify on a Map at a later date.

​Find these 82 Authorised and Registered fintechs on the Map below.

Delighted to be issuing updated Fintech Ireland Maps.  Would like to also announce, with special thanks, Project Foundry for their sponsorship of the Fintech Ireland Indigenous Map.  Thanks for your support guys. As a special thank you we have recognised them on Version 12 of the Regulated Fintech Map.  Read more about Project Foundry in our announcement here.

We last issued the Regulated Fintech Map and the Emoney & Payments Map on 19 July 2024 (version 11). At that time there were 75 such firms showcased on the Regulated Fintech Map.  Joining version 12 of that Map are:

• Pitchedit Limited trading as Shuttle which achieved authorisation as a crowdfunding firm on 28 August 2024 under Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2020/1503.
• Gleman Software Development trading as Bullet, which achieved registration on 3 September 2024 as an open-banking firm under Regulation 25(1)(b) of the European Union (Payment Services) Regulations 2018.

Bullet also joins version 21 of the Emoney and Payments Map by virtue of it being an account information services provider.

Fintech Ireland is delighted to welcome both firms to the ever-growing Regulated Fintech Map (Version 12) and the VASP Map (version 8).  Thanks to CompliReg which supports firms in the fintech industry.

Congratulations to both for increasing the ranks of Irish regulated fintech.  

Shuttle, founded by the infectious Robert Halligan and Scott Ashmore, is an alternative investment platform providing investors with access to private market investment opportunities through a subscription service. Both Robert and Scott are directors of Shuttle, which was incorporated in June 2021.  When we spoke to Scott and Rob recently, they informed us "We're really excited to get authorised by the CBI and appreciate all the support Fintech Ireland have given us these last two years".

Bullet is all-in-one toolkit built on a finance platform.  Its sole director is Peter Connor.  It was incorporated way back in July 2020 before there was such a word as ‘fintech’!

At the same time we bid farewell to CUSOP (Payments) which surrendered its authorisation as a payments institution on 13 September 2024.

CUSOP (Payments) established in August 2011 was set up as a shared services entity to provide electronic payment services to participant credit unions and is owned by the CUSOP Trust on behalf of the participating credit unions.  While it made a loss for the year ending 2023 in the amount of €774K and saw a drop in the number of credit unions which it served, the fintech processed €25.8mn in payments in 2023 up from €24.1 in the previous year.  The associated value processed grew to a new record of €7.8bn up 10% from €7.1bn in 2022. 

So why did the fintech wind down its business and withdrew its authorisation?

This is owed to the outcome of the due diligence phase of a merger process involving CUSOP and Payac when it become clear that the proposed merger could not proceed as originally envisaged.  It did not help that there was a decreasing number of credit unions availing of CUSOP’s services and other considerations.