Register · Canada

Money Services Business Registry

Check whether a firm appears on Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)’s register, with its status, licence number and activities. Institutions on it that also hold a BIC show their licences on their own page.

4,047
Institutions
Active · plus 4,379 inactive
101
Hold a BIC
2.5% of institutions
4,047
On a tracked register
100% of institutions
427
LEI mapped
11% of institutions
4,047
Licence number published
100% of institutions

FINTRAC-MSB at a glance

Every row is the same 4,047 institutions, split by one attribute

Type

  • Crypto 2,440 · 60%
  • Money service business 1,483 · 37%
  • Payments & e-money 124 · 3.1%

Identification

Regulation level

Region

  • North America 4,021 · 99%
  • Other 26 · 0.6%

LEI

  • LEI mapped 427 · 11%
  • No LEI mapped 3,620 · 89%
View as table
AttributeInstitutionsShare
Type
Crypto2,44060%
Money service business1,48337%
Payments & e-money1243.1%
Identification
BIC and a register licence1012.5%
Register only, no BIC3,94698%
Regulation level
Prudential licence160.4%
Small-firm registration20%
AML registration only4,029100%
Region
North America4,02199%
Europe & Central Asia200.5%
East Asia & Pacific60.1%
LEI
LEI mapped42711%
No LEI mapped3,62089%

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 FINTRAC-MSB

The first 25 of the 4,047 institutions with an active licence or registration on FINTRAC-MSB, with or without a BIC: prudentially supervised and larger institutions first.

See all 4,047 institutions on FINTRAC-MSB →

See the 4,379 institutions marked inactive on FINTRAC-MSB →

What this register publishes

Check what Money Services Business Registry records before relying on a status: fields vary from one register to another.

Fields published

Share of the 8,662 licences and registrations on the register, as at 25 September 2026

Licence numbers
100% of licences
Registration dates
100% of licences
End dates
53.1% of licences
Inactive entries
Published
Activities
Published
LEI
Matched by Elucidate for 7.2% 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.
  • Money Services Business Registry publishes cancelled and withdrawn licences. The directory keeps them, marked inactive on the register, as published by the register.

Licences by class

FINTRAC-MSB lists licences and registrations in 6 classes.

Licences by class

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

  • Crypto-Asset Service Provider4,057
  • Money Transmitter / Remittance3,730
  • Currency Exchange583
  • Payment Institution167
  • Cheque Casher / Money Order Seller91
  • Other Money Services34

Institutions on FINTRAC-MSB that hold a BIC

Of the 4,047 institutions on FINTRAC-MSB, 101 hold a BIC in Swift’s directory. Their licences on this register are shown on their page.

See all 101 institutions that hold a BIC on FINTRAC-MSB →

Licences marked inactive, by year

FINTRAC-MSB marks 4,379 institutions inactive, as published by the register: all their licences or registrations on it have ended.

Inactive licences by year

Year the licence ended, or the firm became inactive on the register

  • 20103
  • 20118
  • 201214
  • 20137
  • 2014126
  • 2015183
  • 2016162
  • 2017131
  • 2018189
  • 2019175
  • 2020238
  • 2021360
  • 2022593
  • 2023468
  • 2024666
  • 2025786
  • 2026494
See all 4,379 inactive institutions on FINTRAC-MSB →

Groups with several institutions on the register

Seven corporate groups have two or more institutions on FINTRAC-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

  • Money Services Business Registry—Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) · register ↗ retrieved 25 September 2026
  • Data file—download ↗

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