United States · Money service business
Bridge Ventures LLC
Trading asBridge
Bridge Ventures LLC is a Delaware limited liability company with its head office in Berkeley, California. It is registered with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) as a money services business. It belongs to the Stripe group through its direct parent, Stripe Global Holdings Inc. Stripe completed its acquisition of the Bridge stablecoin business on 4 February 2025. The Bridge website states that the firm provides services to non-EEA residents under its terms of service. It is also the Program Manager for prepaid Visa cards issued by Lead Bank. Money transmission for US residents is provided by its sister company Bridge Building Inc, which holds the state licences.
Licences and registrations
Held by Bridge Ventures LLC (LEI 2549008TOB8QPPDS8S73). 1 entry on 1 of the 22 tracked registers, retrieved 24 September 2026.
| Register | Licence | Number | Jurisdiction | Status | Registered | Ends | Activities | Register entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSB Registrant SearchFinCEN | —Money Transmitter / Remittance | Not published by the register | United States | Active | 2025-02-24 | — |
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Trading names on the register: Bridge (FINCEN-MSB)
- Each licence applies in the country of the regulator that granted it.
- Registers are tracked in 37 countries. Licences granted elsewhere are not recorded here.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory.
Its LEI is not mapped to a BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Customers
Not published
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
Stripe Global Holdings Inc.
Firm type
Payment infrastructure
Trades as Bridge
- Standing
- Zach Abrams co-founded Bridge and served as its CEO. On 24 September 2026 he announced that he was leaving Stripe to run Open Standard full time. No successor as head of Bridge had been announced by 29 September 2026.
- Ownership
- Stripe Global Holdings Inc. is the firm's direct and ultimate accounting-consolidation parent, according to the firm's LEI record.
- Direct parent
- Stripe Global Holdings Inc. ↗, United States
- Head office
- 2120 University Ave., Suite 213, 94704 Berkeley, United States (registered office: c/o The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, United States)
- Company register
- Delaware file 5361435
- Incorporated
- 16 Oct 2024
- Founders
- Zach Abrams · Sean Yu
- Former name
- BINGO ACQUISITION SUB LLC
Online
- Websites & references
- bridge.xyz ↗
apidocs.bridge.xyz ↗ developer documentation - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗
Sources · 15 pages consulted
- lei.bloomberg.com/leis/view/2549008TOB8QPPDS8S73
- bridge.xyz/
- bridge.xyz/legal/overview
- bridge.xyz/legal/licenses/us-licenses-and-registrations
- bridge.xyz/legal/licenses/non-us-licenses
- bridge.xyz/card-agreements/phantom-card
- bridge.xyz/legal/row-user-terms/bridge-building-limited
- bridge.xyz/company
- bridge.xyz/blog/bridge-secures-mica-and-emi-authorisations-across-all-27-eu-member-states
- stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-completes-bridge-acquisition
- bankingcircle.com/banking-circle-helps-power-bridges-global-money-movement-capabilities/
- coindesk.com/business/2026/02/17/stripe-s-stablecoin-firm-bridge-wins-initial-approval-of-national-ban
- finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/open-standard-ousd-gets-full-072659912.html
- x.com/zcabrams/status/2103180224972406830
- fortune.com/2026/08/28/bridge-founder-zach-abrams-stripe-stablecoins-asia-singapore-dollars/
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Several models
- Licensed firm it operates under
- Lead Bank, United States Program Manager performing card-related functions on behalf of the bank for the Lead Bank Prepaid Visa card
FinCEN registers the firm as a money services business, and the firm holds no state money transmitter licence in its own name. Lead Bank issues the prepaid Visa cards that the firm manages. The state licences of its sister company Bridge Building Inc (NMLS 2450917) cover money transmission for US residents.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) United States | Money Services Business registration (money transmitter) | — | In its own name | Active | — |
Licences and registrations the research found, at home and abroad, as the firm and its regulators publish them. The Licences and registrations card shows the entries on the registers the directory tracks.
Partners and safeguarding
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Safeguarding
- Deposits at a partner bankUnder the Lead Bank cardholder agreement, card balances are held in fiat currency in a card account that Lead Bank maintains, and the agreement states that they are not FDIC insured.
- Crypto-asset custody
- Not disclosedBridge offers stablecoin on- and off-ramps, stablecoin issuance and wallets. Its rest-of-world terms state that an affiliate, Bridge Building Arx LLC, provides the wallets, with Bridge holding the private keys. The custody role of this entity is not disclosed.
- Card issuer
- Lead Bank United States
- Settlement bank
- Banking Circle S.A. Luxembourg
- Payment schemes and card networks
- Visa Through a partner bridge.xyz ↗
Swift Through a partner bankingcircle.com ↗
Banks and regulated firms the firm says hold its customers’ money, issue its cards, sponsor its accounts or settle its payments, as it discloses them in its terms and notices.
Products and markets
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Bridge offers application programming interfaces (APIs) for moving, storing, converting and issuing stablecoins, and runs stablecoin-backed card programmes. It sells these through partner platforms and does not offer them directly to the public.
The firm serves non-EEA residents through partner platforms. The Bridge group serves EEA residents through Bridge Building S.A. in Luxembourg and US money transmission customers through Bridge Building Inc.
- Sells to
- Platforms and marketplaces · Enterprises · Financial institutions · Small businesses
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Founder
- Sean Yu Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
- Executive
- Mai Leduc Blount Head of Product
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Leadership
Co-founder and CEO Zach Abrams announced that he was leaving Stripe to run Open Standard, the Open USD stablecoin consortium, full time.
finance.yahoo.com ↗ -
Licence
The CSSF authorised sister company Bridge Building S.A. as a crypto-asset service provider and electronic money institution on 29 June 2026.
bridge.xyz ↗ -
Other
Banking Circle S.A. announced that Bridge uses its infrastructure for EUR and GBP conversion and for USD payments via Swift.
bankingcircle.com ↗ -
Licence
The OCC granted the Bridge group conditional approval to organise Bridge National Trust Bank, a national trust bank.
coindesk.com ↗ -
Merger / acquisition
Stripe completed its acquisition of Bridge on 4 February 2025. The acquisition was first announced in October 2024.
stripe.com ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, security incidents, licence changes, funding rounds, acquisitions and leadership changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
- BIC
- Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory
- How the LEI was matched
- Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name, country and address
- Elucidate firm ID
- 702477370e6e
Profile
- Type
- Money service businessRemittance, currency exchange, cheque cashing and money orders. Usually registered with an anti-money-laundering supervisor rather than licensed prudentially. Taken from the licences on the tracked registers.
- Regulation
- AML registration onlyRegistered with an anti-money-laundering supervisor (FinCEN, FINTRAC, HMRC, AUSTRAC, Hong Kong Customs…) without a prudential licence.
- Main licence class
- Money Transmitter / Remittance
- Activities
- Money remittance
- Other money services
- Licensed in
- United States · North America
- First registered
- 2025-02-24
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- Direct parent
- Stripe Global Holdings Inc. · United States254900VYCQ4K0SLSXF22 ↗
The Stripe Global Holdings Inc. group has 9 institutions in the directory, in 5 countries: 4 hold a BIC and 5 do not.
Including Stripe Technology Europe, Limited, Bridge Building S.A., Stripe Payments Singapore PTE. LTD., Stripe Payments UK LTD, Bridge Building Arx LLC.
See the Stripe Global Holdings Inc. group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Address on the register
- 2120 University Ave., Suite 213, Berkeley, 94704
- Country
- United States
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
This institution holds no BIC. A CBPR+ message identifies it by name and postal address, and may add its LEI or a clearing code.
- Identified by
- Name and postal address, with its LEI
- Postal address
- Hybrid: town, postcode and country in their own elements, the rest in one address line
<FinInstnId>
<LEI>2549008TOB8QPPDS8S73</LEI>
<Nm>Bridge Ventures LLC</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<PstCd>94704</PstCd>
<TwnNm>Berkeley</TwnNm>
<Ctry>US</Ctry>
<AdrLine>2120 University Ave., Suite 213</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>CBPR+ identifies the instructing and instructed agents by BIC only. An institution without a BIC can be the debtor, creditor or an intermediary agent.
The values are as published by the register. Check them against your own records before use.
Sources & method
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- MSB Registrant Search—Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) · source ↗ as at 24 September 2026
- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, authorisation, partners, products, leadership and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the firm's own website, terms and filings, regulators' registers and notices, company registers and news. Licences, partners, figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
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