Fipto, a blockchain-based stablecoin payments infrastructure company, has been officially licensed as a payments institution by the French Prudential Control and Resolution Authority (ACPR), part of the Bank of France.
Fipto’s infrastructure bridges digital and fiat currencies, enabling businesses to make instant payments with stablecoins or optimize existing global payment flows using blockchain. The platform allows organizations to reduce costs, increase payment speeds, and expand their currency capabilities for international transactions.
The new ACPR accreditation enables Paris-based Fipto to send and receive global fiat payments on behalf of third parties, streamlining access to stablecoin transactions by significantly reducing intermediaries.
Already registered as a digital asset service provider (DASP) with the French Financial Markets Authority, Fipto said it is now the most comprehensively regulated stablecoin provider and the only stablecoin-focused fintech to achieve double regulatory approval in France. Fipto is also a licensed virtual asset service provider (VASP) in Luxembourg.
With its new status as a licensed payments institution, Fipto said it is fully positioned at the intersection of traditional and digital finance. Thanks to its dual VASP and payments institution (traditional currencies) registrations, Fipto believes it is one of the only players capable of managing the entire payment chain.
The company said the VASP registration will soon transition to CASP (crypto-asset service provider) registration (for which it will have to apply), under the forthcoming EU MiCA regulation, granting license holders the right to operate across the European Union. The ACPR’s payments institution license is also passportable throughout the European Economic Area (EEA).
“Getting this approval is the result of a very demanding two-year process that will allow us to strengthen our value proposition in France and Europe. We can now master the entire payment chain, combining traditional currencies and digital currencies, to offer an infrastructure that is even more efficient, competitive and compliant with security and compliance requirements,” said founder and CEO Patrick Mollard.