About
Who is behind the data.
LicenceMap is not a scraped directory. It is compiled by someone who has run the licensing, purchase and sale of regulated entities in person, and every figure is dated and traced to a primary source.
The operator
LicenceMap is compiled by the group chief executive of a digital assets and payments group operating across the UK, EU, US and Latin America, with senior, direct accountability to regulators in five jurisdictions, including the FCA, Banco de Portugal, the Bank of Lithuania and Mexico's CNBV. He has taken VASP and CASP regimes through the MiCA transition, overseen the licensing, purchase and sale of regulated entities, and holds board-level ownership of regulator-grade wind-down planning. The comparisons here are built by someone who sits across the table from these regulators, not someone who has only read their handbooks.
How the data is compiled
Every entry is built from primary sources: legislation, regulator handbooks, official fee schedules and published guidance. Regulator fees, capital thresholds, statutory timelines and dates are primary-sourced and cited; the professional-fee portions of application and ongoing cost figures are realistic market estimates, not quotes, and are marked as such. Nothing is published until it has been verified. The deeper write-up, including what is sourced versus estimated and how corrections are handled, is on the methodology page.
The freshness promise
Every data cell carries its own "last verified" date, shown on the jurisdiction pages and the matrix. The dataset is re-checked on a fortnightly cadence, and when a regime moves, a MiCA deadline, a fee revision, a new circular, the affected entries are updated, re-dated and summarised in the change feed, with subscribers alerted. The most recently verified figure across the 52 tracked jurisdictions was checked on 2026-07-03. You can see the live verification status for every jurisdiction and dimension on the data freshness page.