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Get approved faster. Stay compliant.

The licensing platform for fintechs, payments and digital assets. Apply for MiCA, EMI and PI authorizations, then manage every obligation that follows.

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New license

Progress

  1. Read the data room (in progress)
  2. Map the requirementsCentral Bank of Ireland
  3. Draft the safeguarding policy
  4. Review and sign off
  5. Your approval to submit
  6. Send to the regulator
  7. Monitor for a response

Readiness

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  • MiCA CASP
  • EMI
  • PI
  • US MTL
  • UK FCA
  • VASP

Faster and cost efficient licensing for global teams.

Tens of thousands, not hundreds

Advisers bill €50,000 to €200,000 per license, by the hour. Selborne is one fixed fee.

Weeks of your team, not months

Months of drafting, collation and chasing, done for your team. What is left is review.

Grow faster, without the extra overhead

Responses and obligations automated, with experts on judgment calls. Your team approves.

New license applications, simplified.

Every requirement and RFI, synced and drafted from the documents you already have. Your team reviews instead of spending days on manual work.

How applications work
A printed regulation on a desk, annotated by hand in the margins, a pen resting across it, a colleague at a screen out of focus behind.

Progress

  1. Read the data room (in progress)
  2. Map the requirementsCentral Bank of Ireland
  3. Draft the safeguarding policy
  4. Review and sign off
  5. Your approval to submit
  6. Send to the regulator
  7. Monitor for a response

Readiness

0%

Maintenance and renewals, under control.

How renewals work
Two colleagues crossing a working office floor at speed, motion-blurred against the sharp room behind them, late window light raking in low from one side.

Quarterly prudential return

MiCA CASP · Example Custody Ireland Ltd

Due 15 Mar

  1. 12 Jan

    Renewal window opens

  2. 20 Jan

    Obligations mapped to the pack

  3. 03 Feb

    Gathering evidence

    Sync

  4. 17 Feb

    Figures reconciled

  5. 24 Feb

    Policies refreshed

  6. 02 Mar

    Review and sign off

  7. 09 Mar

    Your approval to submit

  8. 12 Mar

    Sent to the regulator

Renewals and ongoing filings

Renewal dates tracked and preparation started early, alongside what has to be filed, reported or maintained for every license.

Changes and amendments

When your business, ownership, products or operations evolve, the regulatory work is mapped before it becomes urgent.

Regulatory correspondence

Every regulator communication connected to the right license and requirement.

One source of truth

A complete record of your licenses, submissions, documents and regulatory history across entities and jurisdictions. The file you'll be glad exists when the examination letter arrives.

Automated workflows, with licensing experts on the judgment calls.

Selborne researches the requirements, drafts the responses and flags what is missing. Advisors work inside that file, not across the spreadsheets and mail threads an application usually scatters into.

The network is growing, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

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Trust and onboarding

Getting licensed is not the last approval you need.

Every counterparty runs its own due diligence, and each one asks for the same things in a different spreadsheet. Publish one compliance profile, answer from material your compliance team has already approved, and reuse it with every partner that asks.

  • PSPs
  • Banks and sponsor banks
  • Acquirers
  • Custodians
How partner approvals work

Just cc Selborne. Everything stays in sync.

Licensing already runs through email, Slack, spreadsheets and shared folders. Selborne works there.

Central Bank of Ireland

09:12

authorizations@centralbank.ie

to compliance@yourcompany.com

cc selborne@yourcompany.com

Re: EMI authorization, further information

Please provide the revised reserve safeguarding policy and updated financial projections by September 14.

The Bank also requires clarification on the following points raised during the assessment. Confirm the credit institution holding safeguarded funds and provide the executed safeguarding agreement. Set out the reconciliation procedure applied to safeguarded accounts, including its frequency and the party responsible for sign-off. Confirm whether any relevant funds are held in secure liquid assets and, if so, the investment policy applied to them. Provide the board minutes approving the revised policy, together with an updated organizational chart showing the reporting line of the head of compliance. Where any of the above has changed since the original submission, indicate what has changed and why.

EMI (e-money tokens)Requirements

2 new requirements identified from correspondence

  • Revised reserve safeguarding policy

    Needs information

  • Updated financial projections

    Not started

From Drive Reserve Safeguarding Policy v3.docx · Financial Model.xlsx

  1. Add the alias

    selborne@yourcompany.com, on your own domain, copied in like any colleague.

    Gmail, Outlook or Slack
    • No copying emails into a tracker
    • No regulator request buried in an inbox

  2. Share the folders

    Read access to the shared folders holding policies, corporate documents and financials.

    Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox
    • No missed files across disparate folders
    • Automatically flag inconsistencies across docs

When something needs a decision, it reaches you in Slack with the requirement attached.

The licenses that gate your roadmap.

  • US Money Transmitter Licenses (MTL)

    State by state, coordinated through NMLS. Moving money in the US.

  • EU Payment Institution (PI)

    Authorized under PSD2. Payment services across the EU, passported.

  • EU Electronic Money Institution (EMI)

    Authorized under EMD2. Issuing e-money and safeguarding customer funds.

  • MiCA CASP

    Authorized under MiCA. Custody, exchange and transfer of crypto-assets.

  • VASP registration

    National registration, and the migration onto MiCA that follows it.

  • UK authorizations

    FCA authorization under the PSRs and the EMRs. Payments and e-money.

Payments

US money transmitter licenses state by state, PI or EMI in the EU, FCA authorization in the UK. One company record assessed against all of them.

Crypto

MiCA CASP authorization, or migration from a national VASP registration, with the service mapping that decides which of the two you are applying for.

Stablecoins

An EMI and a MiCA authorization in the EU, and money transmitter licenses state by state in the US. One product, several licenses, mapped in one place.

A new standard for financial licensing.

Licensing has been run as an expensive professional-services project for too long. The judgment stays with legal experts. Everything repetitive around it belongs in Selborne.

TodaySelborne
  • Drafting and collation by softwareNoYes
  • Requirements and obligations always up to dateNoYes
  • Documents and correspondence captured automaticallyNoYes
  • Every jurisdiction and every policy in one placeNoYes
  • Priced as software, not hoursHigher costLower cost

Get approved faster. Stay compliant.

Tell us your products and markets, and see the licenses you need, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

What to expect

  • A conversation about your license, not a product tour
  • The requirements you would actually face, on your own products and markets
  • An honest answer on what Selborne does not do yet
  • GDPR. Aligned, EU data protection.
Which licenses, if you know

Not sure yet? We will tell you which license you actually need, with no commitment.