Register · Hong Kong SAR China

Register of Money Service Operators (AMLO Cap. 615)

Check whether a firm appears on Customs and Excise Department (C&ED), Hong Kong’s register, with its status, licence number and activities. Institutions on it that also hold a BIC show their licences on their own page.

612
Institutions
Active · inactive not published
70
Hold a BIC
11% of institutions
612
On a tracked register
100% of institutions
130
LEI mapped
21% of institutions
612
Licence number published
100% of institutions

CED-MSO at a glance

Every row is the same 612 institutions, split by one attribute

Type

  • Money service business 612 · 100%

Identification

Regulation level

Region

  • East Asia & Pacific 610 · 100%
  • North America 2 · 0.3%

LEI

  • LEI mapped 130 · 21%
  • No LEI mapped 482 · 79%
View as table
AttributeInstitutionsShare
Type
Money service business612100%
Identification
BIC and a register licence7011%
Register only, no BIC54289%
Regulation level
AML registration only612100%
Region
East Asia & Pacific610100%
North America20.3%
LEI
LEI mapped13021%
No LEI mapped48279%

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.

Retrieved 25 September 2026

Institutions on CED-MSO

The first 25 of the 612 institutions with an active licence or registration on CED-MSO, with or without a BIC: prudentially supervised and larger institutions first.

See all 612 institutions on CED-MSO →

What this register publishes

Check what Register of Money Service Operators (AMLO Cap. 615) records before relying on a status: fields vary from one register to another.

Fields published

Share of the 613 licences and registrations on the register, as at 25 September 2026

Licence numbers
100% of licences
Registration dates
0% of licences
End dates
0% of licences
Inactive entries
Not published by the register
Activities
Published
LEI
Matched by Elucidate for 21.2% of the register’s records

Limits of this register

  • An AML registration records that a business is supervised for anti-money-laundering purposes. It is not a prudential licence.
  • Register of Money Service Operators (AMLO Cap. 615) publishes current entries only. Entries removed from it are not kept, so none is marked inactive.

Licences by class

All 613 licences and registrations on CED-MSO are of one class: Money Transmitter / Remittance.

Institutions on CED-MSO that hold a BIC

Of the 612 institutions on CED-MSO, 70 hold a BIC in Swift’s directory. Their licences on this register are shown on their page.

See all 70 institutions that hold a BIC on CED-MSO →

Sources & method

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. Institutions come from Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory and from the public registers of financial regulators; a register record joins an institution that holds a BIC only through a shared LEI, never by name alone.

Institutions without a BIC are not screened against sanctions lists. An institution missing from this register is not necessarily unregulated.

Read the methodology →

Sources for this page

  • Register of Money Service Operators (AMLO Cap. 615)—Customs and Excise Department (C&ED), Hong Kong · register ↗ retrieved 25 September 2026

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