MoonPay secures Dutch EMI license for payment accounts and stablecoin issuance

  • MoonPay received a Dutch EMI license covering payment accounts and stablecoin issuance.
  • September 8, 2026, marked MoonPay’s Dutch approval for the EMI license.
  • MoonPay obtained its MiCAR CASP license in 2024, before the EMI approval.

MoonPay’s European business received an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license from the Dutch Central Bank on September 8, 2026. The authorization provides a regulated basis for offering payment accounts and related services to consumers and businesses, issuing stablecoins and developing card products from the Netherlands. It could also support euro-denominated and open-loop stablecoin products that circulate beyond a single merchant or platform. MoonPay already obtained a MiCAR Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) license in 2024. The company said it is the third Netherlands-based business to hold both permissions within one entity and the first in that group to combine them with open-loop stablecoin issuance capabilities, though those comparisons were not supported by a regulator-issued peer list. MoonPay has not disclosed product launch dates, pricing, eligibility rules, stablecoin details, reserve arrangements or banking partners, so the approval does not establish that a euro token is already in circulation or that the products have launched.

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