Belgium · Payments & e-money
MoneyGram International
MoneyGram International SA is a Belgian public limited company based in Brussels. The National Bank of Belgium (NBB) authorises it as a payment institution for money remittance, and it uses this licence to serve the European Economic Area. It is part of the MoneyGram group, which funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners acquired in June 2023. It provides international money transfers to consumers through agents, its own stores, its website and its app.
Licences and registrations
Held by MoneyGram International (LEI 6994002V92H02K5O0798). 1 entry on 1 of the 22 tracked registers, retrieved 25 September 2026.
| Register | Licence | Number | Jurisdiction | Status | Registered | Ends | Activities | Register entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBA PSD2 RegisterNational Bank of Belgium | Payment institutionPayment Institution | 0671690653 | Belgium | Active | 2017-12-19 | — |
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- 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
MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc.
Firm type
Money remittance
Trades as MoneyGram
- Ownership
- The firm's terms name MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc. as its parent company, and funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners have owned the MoneyGram group since June 2023.
- Direct parent
- MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc., United States
- Ultimate owner
- Funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, United States
- Head office
- Rue Joseph Stevens 7, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
- Company register
- Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE) 0671.690.653
Online
- Websites & references
- moneygram.com ↗ did not load when checked
corporate.moneygram.com ↗ group corporate site
Wikipedia ↗ group article - Official social accounts
- None found
Sources · 13 pages consulted
- dnb.nl/en/public-register/information-detail/?registerCode=WFTBI&relationNumber=R160985
- acpr.banque-france.fr/system/files/2026-04/20260423_decision_Moneygram.pdf
- acpr.banque-france.fr/fr/publications-et-statistiques/publications/decision-de-la-commission-des-sanctions-ndeg
- bportugal.pt/en/entidadeautorizada/moneygram-international-sa
- moneygram.com/mgo/be/en/m/terms-and-conditions/
- moneygram.com/be/nl/verzenden-en-ontvangen/online-geld-overmaken
- corporate.moneygram.com/documents/PDF_Forms/TermsAndCond/Europe/Belgium/Send%20Terms%20English.pdf/
- moneygram.com/intl/Documents/Controller-Documents/Controller_for_Privacy_Notice_Addendum_English_Dec_20
- prnewswire.com/news-releases/madison-dearborn-partners-completes-acquisition-of-moneygram-301840026.html
- prnewswire.com/news-releases/moneygram-modernizes-retail-solutions-globally-advancing-unified-omnichanne
- cfodive.com/news/moneygram-swipes-wellsfargo-exec-cfo-payments/807713/
- cybersecuritydive.com/news/moneygram-cyberattack-sensitive-data/729342/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoneyGram
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
The National Bank of Belgium authorises the firm as a payment institution for money remittance. It operates in other EEA states under the EU passport, including through agents that the NBB registers.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Bank of Belgium Belgium | Payment institution (money remittance) | 0671.690.653 | In its own name | Active | dnb.nl ↗ |
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.
Products and markets
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
It sends money transfers from the EEA, collected in cash at agent locations or credited to bank accounts and mobile wallets. Senders pay in cash at agents or by card online and in the app.
It serves customers in EEA countries under its Belgian payment institution licence, and group privacy documents name it as the controller for those countries.
- Revenue
- EUR 230m
- Sells to
- Consumers
- Serves customers in 29 countries
- Belgium · Austria · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus · Czechia · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France · Germany · Greece · Hungary · Iceland · Ireland · Italy · Latvia · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Malta · Netherlands · Norway · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chair & chief executive
- Anthony Soohoo Chairman and CEO, MoneyGram (group level)
- Chief financial officer
- Marc Winniford Chief Financial Officer, MoneyGram (group level)
Recent events 3 enforcement or investigation items
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Enforcement
The ACPR Sanctions Committee reprimanded the firm and fined it EUR 1.3 million for AML and counter-terrorist financing failures in France.
acpr.banque-france.fr ↗ -
Investigation
The ACPR Supervisory Board opened disciplinary proceedings after an on-site inspection of the firm's French activity in 2023.
acpr.banque-france.fr ↗ -
Security incident
Attackers accessed the MoneyGram group's network and stole customer data, followed by a group-wide outage lasting several days.
cybersecuritydive.com ↗ -
Merger / acquisition
Funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners completed their acquisition of the group parent, MoneyGram International, Inc.
prnewswire.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
- Licence no. · EBA-PSD2
- 0671690653
- 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
- 576716bf4a3c
Profile
- Type
- Payments & e-moneyPayment institutions, e-money and stored-value issuers, and account-information providers. Licensed under payment-services law (e.g. PSD2 in the EU and UK, the Payment Services Act in Singapore). Taken from the licences on the tracked registers.
- Regulation
- Prudential licenceAuthorised with capital, safeguarding and conduct requirements, e.g. an authorised payment or e-money institution in the EU or UK, a major payment institution in Singapore, or a MiCA crypto-asset service provider.
- Main licence class
- Payment Institution
- Activities
- Money remittance
- Payment services
- Licensed in
- Belgium · Europe & Central Asia
- First registered
- 2017-12-19
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
GLEIF’s relationship records name no parent for this LEI, and no group page is published for it.
Addresses
- Address on the register
- Joseph Stevensstraat 7/rue Joseph Stevens 7, Brussel/Bruxelles, 1000
- Country
- Belgium
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 two address lines
<FinInstnId>
<LEI>6994002V92H02K5O0798</LEI>
<Nm>MoneyGram International</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<PstCd>1000</PstCd>
<TwnNm>Brussel/Bruxelles</TwnNm>
<Ctry>BE</Ctry>
<AdrLine>Joseph Stevensstraat 7/rue Joseph</AdrLine>
<AdrLine>Stevens 7</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
Register entries come from the public registers of financial regulators, standardised into one taxonomy. LEIs are matched through GLEIF, and a BIC is linked only through a shared LEI.
An institution missing from these registers is not necessarily unregulated.
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An institution is one entry in the directory: a BIC8 in Swift’s directory, or a firm on a tracked register that holds no BIC. Licences held by an institution with a BIC are shown on its page.
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- EBA PSD2 Register—European Banking Authority (EBA) · source ↗ as at 25 September 2026
- 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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