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Pinned 🇱🇻 Latvia partly open Verified 2026-07-03
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🇸🇪 Sweden
partly open
Verified 2026-07-03
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| Licence type | Two tiers: (1) Licensed electronic money institution (full EMI licence) and (2) Registered electronic money institution (lighter-touch registration tier for smaller issuers, restricted to issuing e-money and providing only payment instrument issuance or money remittance) - both under the Law on Payment Services and Electronic Money (transposing EMD2) | Tillstand att ge ut elektroniska pengar (e-money institution licence) under lagen (2011:755) om elektroniska pengar, transposing EMD2; a lighter-touch registration tier ('registrerad utgivare av elektroniska pengar' for small-scale issuers below EMD2 thresholds) also exists |
| Regulator | Latvijas Banka (Bank of Latvia) - sole licensing/supervisory authority, having absorbed the former FCMC (Finansu un kapitala tirgus komisija) in 2023 | Finansinspektionen (FI, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) |
| Capital requirement | Latvia capital requirement is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. | Sweden capital requirement is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. |
| Timeline to authorisation | Latvia timeline to authorisation is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. | Sweden timeline to authorisation is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. |
| Local substance | Latvia local substance is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. | Sweden local substance is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. |
| Application cost | Latvia application cost is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. | Sweden application cost is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. |
| Ongoing cost | Latvia ongoing cost is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. | Sweden ongoing cost is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. |
| Passporting | Latvia passporting is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. | Sweden passporting is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. |
| EMIs authorised | Latvia emis authorised is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. | Sweden emis authorised is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. |
| Key restrictions | Latvia key restrictions is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. | Sweden key restrictions is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. |
| Safeguarding | Latvia safeguarding is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. | Sweden safeguarding is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. |
| Recent changes | Latvijas Banka continues actively granting new EMI licences (e.g. NorthernTech SIA, AP Operations SIA, Fibonatix in 2025-2026); Latvia is increasingly featured on fintech shortlists. As of 2025, 3 new companies received EMI licences. PSD3/PSR (final texts April 2026, OJ publication expected mid-to-late 2026) will apply directly (PSR) and require transposition (PSD3) within 18 months. | PSD3 and the PSR will merge the payment institution and EMI regimes into one licence that can issue e-money. Final texts published 23 April 2026, applicability targeted around 2028; existing EMIs are grandfathered but must update their file. |
| Difficulty rating | Latvia difficulty rating is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. | Sweden difficulty rating is locked. Unlock with the £349 pass. |
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