Buy-side coverage
Cadena Brokers also accepts buy-side mandates across the regulated verticals below — wherever our diligence playbook, banking relationships, and change-of-control structuring carry over. One desk, one acquirer-aligned mandate, every category.
Crypto
Two distinct surfaces — the new EU MiCA regime and the established non-EU VASP jurisdictions. Acquirers choose based on target market, banking, and capital tolerance.
Crypto-Asset Service Provider — EU under MiCA
The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation creates a single passportable EU authorisation across exchange, custody, and token-issuance services. We broker CASP entities for acquirers building EU-wide crypto businesses without 27 separate national filings.
Virtual Asset Service Provider — non-EU
Established offshore registrations across Seychelles, BVI, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Costa Rica, Comoros (Anjouan), Panama, Cayman, and others. Ready-made registered entities with operational banking and crypto-friendly correspondents already in place.
Money services
Three distinct regulators, one acquisition discipline. We broker entities suited to the acquirer’s state-coverage, federal scope, and banking continuity needs.
FinCEN-registered MSB · State Money Transmitter Licenses
FinCEN-registered Money Service Businesses with state-level Money Transmitter Licenses across the country. We broker entities with single-state, multi-state, and full-coverage state lattices — useful for acquirers wanting US payments scope without years of state-by-state filings.
FINTRAC-registered Money Service Business
FINTRAC-registered Money Service Businesses for acquirers operating FX, remittance, or crypto services across Canada. Quebec provincial licensing handled where the target’s services require it. Banking relationships preserved through change-of-control.
Money Service Operator · HK Customs & Excise
Hong Kong MSO licences for currency exchange and remittance, regulated by Customs & Excise. Suited to acquirers seeking Asia-Pacific operational footing or a hub for cross-border RMB / USD / HKD flows.
Gaming
Coverage across more than 20 jurisdictions, from top-tier supervisors to flexible offshore registrations. Tiered options match the acquirer’s target-market profile, payment-rail requirements, and capital tolerance.
Malta (MGA), UK (UKGC), Sweden (Spelinspektionen), Denmark (Spillemyndigheden), Spain (DGOJ), Italy (ADM), Romania (ONJN), Greece (HGC), Schleswig-Holstein (Germany), Estonia (EMTA).
Gibraltar (GRA), Isle of Man (GSC), Alderney (AGCC). Highly regarded supervisory regimes with mature banking and payment-processor coverage.
Curaçao (CGCB), Anjouan (Comoros), Costa Rica, Antigua and Barbuda, Philippines (PAGCOR). Faster acquisition path, broader product scope, popular with crypto-casino acquirers.
Kahnawake (Canada) and Tobique Gaming Commission (Canada) — respected niche options for North-America-facing iGaming acquirers.
Forex / CFD
Coverage across more than 20 jurisdictions. Tiered from offshore registrations suited to high-leverage retail FX/CFD, through mid-tier supervisory regimes, to full EU MiFID-passportable CIFs.
Cyprus (CySEC) — the canonical EU forex hub with CIF authorisation, plus Malta (MFSA), Lithuania, Bulgaria, Czechia, and Estonia. Full investment-firm scope including portfolio management.
United Kingdom (FCA), Switzerland (FINMA), Australia (ASIC), Hong Kong (SFC), UAE / DIFC (DFSA), South Africa (FSCA). High supervisory bar, premium banking, suited to institutional and retail-tier acquirers.
Belize (IFSC), Mauritius (FSC), Vanuatu (VFSC), Seychelles (FSA), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (FSA), Bahamas (SCB), British Virgin Islands (FSC), Cayman (CIMA). Fast acquisition profile for high-leverage, retail-FX-focused operators.
Browse by jurisdiction
Each page is a buy-side brief for a specific regulator and licence type, with target-pool sizing, change-of-control mechanics, and banking-continuity notes. Use the index below to jump straight to a jurisdiction.
EU 27 + UK e-money authorisations under EMD2.
MiCA-authorised crypto licences across the EU 27.
EU 27 payment institutions under PSD2.
Article 9 EMD2 lighter authorisations in countries that adopted them.
Article 32 PSD2 lighter authorisations in countries that adopted them.
If your acquisition target sits in any of the verticals above, our diligence, banking-continuity, and change-of-control discipline applies the same way it does on our core EU + UK e-money / payment mandates. Send a brief and we’ll come back within one business day.
