Register · United States

MSB Registrant Search

Check whether a firm appears on Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)’s register, with its status, licence number and activities. Institutions on it that also hold a BIC show their licences on their own page.

31,128
Institutions
Active · inactive not published
38
Hold a BIC
0.1% of institutions
31,128
On a tracked register
100% of institutions
383
LEI mapped
1.2% of institutions
129
Licence number published
0.4% of institutions

FINCEN-MSB at a glance

Every row is the same 31,128 institutions, split by one attribute

Type

  • Money service business 31,097 · 100%
  • Other 31 · 0.1%

Identification

Regulation level

Region

  • North America 31,112 · 100%
  • Other 16 · 0.1%

LEI

  • LEI mapped 383 · 1.2%
  • No LEI mapped 30,745 · 99%
View as table
AttributeInstitutionsShare
Type
Money service business31,097100%
Crypto190.1%
Payments & e-money120%
Identification
BIC and a register licence380.1%
Register only, no BIC31,090100%
Regulation level
Prudential licence110%
Small-firm registration10%
AML registration only31,116100%
Region
North America31,112100%
Europe & Central Asia90%
East Asia & Pacific70%
LEI
LEI mapped3831.2%
No LEI mapped30,74599%

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 24 September 2026

Institutions on FINCEN-MSB

The first 25 of the 31,128 institutions with an active licence or registration on FINCEN-MSB, with or without a BIC: prudentially supervised and larger institutions first.

See all 31,128 institutions on FINCEN-MSB →

What this register publishes

Check what MSB Registrant Search records before relying on a status: fields vary from one register to another.

Fields published

Share of the 31,969 licences and registrations on the register, as at 24 September 2026

Licence numbers
0.3% of licences
Registration dates
100% of licences
End dates
0% of licences
Inactive entries
Not published by the register
Activities
Published
LEI
Matched by Elucidate for 1.2% of the register’s records

Limits of this register

  • Registration with FinCEN is not a licence. FinCEN does not verify the information that businesses submit when they register.
  • An AML registration records that a business is supervised for anti-money-laundering purposes. It is not a prudential licence.
  • MSB Registrant Search publishes current entries only. Entries removed from it are not kept, so none is marked inactive.

Licences by class

FINCEN-MSB lists licences and registrations in 4 classes.

Licences by class

Licence and registration records, active and inactive, by the class the register gives

  • Money Transmitter / Remittance21,904
  • Cheque Casher / Money Order Seller9,375
  • Currency Exchange608
  • Prepaid Access / Bill Payment Provider82

Institutions on FINCEN-MSB that hold a BIC

Of the 31,128 institutions on FINCEN-MSB, 38 hold a BIC in Swift’s directory. Their licences on this register are shown on their page.

See all 38 institutions that hold a BIC on FINCEN-MSB →

Groups with several institutions on the register

Five corporate groups have two or more institutions on FINCEN-MSB, according to GLEIF consolidation records.

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

  • MSB Registrant Search—Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) · register ↗ retrieved 24 September 2026

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