🇱🇺 Luxembourg
Financial-centre jurisdiction attracting institutional custody, prime brokerage and settlement players (Clearstream, Coinbase, Standard Chartered) under CSSF's CASP regime.
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Licence type
Electronic Money Institution (EMI) authorisation under the Law of 10 November 2009 on payment services, as amended by the Law of 20 July 2018 (transposing PSD2); this same law also transposed EMD2's e-money provisions. No prominent separate small-EMI regime; EMIs are typically authorised as full EMIs given Luxembourg's fund/institutional client base.
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Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF)
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Recent changes
PSD3/PSR: EU agreement reached Nov 2025, texts published April 2026, repealing EMD2 with EMIs becoming a 'payment institution authorised to issue e-money' sub-category; Luxembourg's payment services law will need amendment within the transposition window, with transitional relief (24 months, extendable to 30) for existing EMD2-authorised entities. CSSF also active on crypto/e-money-token overlap (MiCA e-money token issuer guidance).
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