Prasos wins EU payment licence – Lendo platform

Prasos, a Finnish cryptocurrency and exchange service, has been awarded a Payment Institution License (PIL) for the EU, Coindesk reports.

According to its press release, Prasos is only the third crypto firm in Europe to receive this licence.

The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) granted the licence, which allows Prasos to offer additional fiat currency payment services for users of its Finnish Coinmotion exchange platform, and will further allow it to offer fiat payment services in other European Economic Area countries.

Prasos acquired Coinmotion in 2016 and it also operates another exchange called Bittiraha.fi, as well as Bittimaatti, a Bitcoin ATM network in Finland.

Heidi Hurskainen, CEO of Prasos said, “The process for acquiring the licence has lasted almost 1.5 years, during which legislation on the EU level has become clearer. We have been developing our business and processes strongly. I am very happy that we have reached this point and received the Payment Institution Licence.”

Prasos also announced that it has plans to register under the FSA as a virtual currency provider in accordance with new Finnish legislation that came into force on May 1, 2019.

Henry Brade, chairman of the board of directors at Prasos, commented that the company had previously lost several bank accounts “due to the unregulated nature of the whole sector.” He added, “With this licence we have, as the only cryptocurrency operator in the world, gained a customer fund account from a Finnish credit institution. As a payment institution, we also believe in the possibility of a deeper integration with the banking sector in the future.”

Published at Mon, 15 Jul 2019 08:16:49 +0000

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