Yes, CurrencyFair Limited, incorporated in Ireland (No. 469391) is fully regulated as an Authorised Payment Institution by the Central Bank of Ireland (No.C57373) under the European Communities (Payment Services) Regulations 2009. You can check the register here, and find out more information here.
In order to comply with our regulation CurrencyFair maintains a minimum capital requirement and has policies and procedures in place to ensure the protection of client funds. This includes using segregated client accounts to ensure your funds are held separately from ours. The regulator also imposes standards on the fitness and probity of the firm’s officers.
CurrencyFair Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 94 147 506 410) is regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (“ASIC”), AFSL No. 402709. CurrencyFair Limited (ARBN 154 043 455) has been appointed as a Corporate Authorised Representative No. 419450 by CurrencyFair Australia Pty Ltd.
Here on the blog we like to address questions people often have about how we work. One of the terms which sometimes provokes questions is 'peer to peer'. CurrencyFair offers peer-to-peer (P2P) money transfers and currency...