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UK-facing providers that hold a genuine FCA e-money institution authorization
Eight more are payment institutions with permission sets from full acquiring down to initiation-only, Adyen runs as a bank branch, and one brand kept marketing a UK authorization the FCA canceled in 2024.
Basis: FCA register audit
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Brazil-facing providers holding their own or a captive BCB payment-institution authorization
Each authorization stands on the central bank's register, in the official Pix participant file and in the DOU. One more provider runs honestly on a partner bank, the acquiring modality sits with only two of the eleven, and several joined Pix over a year before their authorization landed through the Res. BCB 80/2021 window.
Basis: BCB register audit
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US-facing providers holding state gaming approvals in the six publicly checkable state registers
PA, NJ, MI, WV, CO and IN publish checkable registers, and PXP Financial holds approvals in all six. One brand publicly names four licensed states and holds none of the three checkable ones, and three more are absent as their models predict. Money-transmitter licenses sit outside the count because NMLS publishes no machine-readable register.
Basis: US state register audit
7801 / 7802 / 7995
US gambling MCCs where a Visa fraud dispute stays valid regardless of 3DS authentication (Rules Table 11-27, US domestic)
The liability shift most merchants assume from 3DS does not exist for US-domestic gambling traffic, which makes Compelling Evidence 3.0 the only 10.4 liability lever for the vertical. Full mechanics in our CE 3.0 breakdown.
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Providers rated here that connect to Pix in Brazil
18 of them run Pix through their own direct acquiring or a Brazilian payment-institution license rather than aggregation. Since September 25, 2026, Pix and every other Brazilian payment rail have been closed to sports betting and online casino.
Basis: Industry report
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Providers whose rails carry zero operator chargeback liability
Crypto-native gateways, open-banking A2A rails and Interac push-payment specialists: on these rails the dispute mechanic that VAMP and ECP price simply doesn't exist. Every deposit moved off cards leaves both the numerator and the denominator of the card programs' ratios.
Basis: Industry report
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Providers stating a reserve policy that hold zero rolling reserve
Almost all of them open-banking and crypto rails, where the dispute mechanics that reserves exist for don't apply. Among providers that do hold reserves, the midpoint of stated ranges lands at a 7.5% median, held 3-6 months.
Basis: Industry report
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Providers that quote deposit pricing only through sales
Against 21 that publish a numeric rate or range. Most of the industry still treats price as a negotiation opener rather than a datapoint, which is exactly why published pricing is a transparency signal in our scoring.
Basis: Industry report
Live values from the industry report.
The register-audit series
Which payment providers hold which licenses on the regulators' own registers, entity by entity, with a register snapshot date on every audit. Nobody else runs this series, and each audit is best cited with its snapshot date.
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