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iGaming licence and payments in 2026: which licence, what it costs and how you get paid
Which iGaming licence fits your players, why payments decide whether you can actually trade, what acquirers check before they say yes, how to set up the group, UK Remote Gaming Duty at 40% and when an offshore company becomes UK-resident.
VAT Registration Abroad: The Threshold Nobody Tracks Until It's Missed
Digital and services businesses cross foreign VAT thresholds without realizing it. Here's how the thresholds actually work and what happens once you miss one.
EU payment rails in 2026: EMI, PI, CASP — and which one you actually need
Founders routinely apply for the wrong European licence and lose eighteen months finding out. EMI, payment institution, CASP and the incoming PSD3 perimeter authorise different things, cost different amounts and open different banking doors. This guide maps activity to licence, and licence to rails.
MiCA one year in: what changed for crypto structures
The EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets regime is now fully in force, and it has quietly redrawn the map of viable jurisdictions, banks and custodians for digital-asset holdings. Structures that worked in 2023 are being unwound. This briefing sets out what MiCA changed in practice, which banking corridors closed, and how founders and family offices should re-paper their crypto exposure in 2026.
Most fintech licences fail at the bank, not at the regulator
Most fintech founders assume the regulator is the hard part. In practice, the FCA, MFSA, DFSA or CBB will approve on paper — and the acquiring bank will then decline on evidence. Safeguarding accounts, settlement banking and card-scheme sponsorship are where EMI and PSP applications quietly collapse. This is what a bankable licence file actually looks like in 2026.
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