--- title: "Airwallex licences and group companies abroad" language: en canonical: https://dossiertwist.com/dossiers/airwallex-pty-ltd/licences/ as_of: 2026-10-17 keywords: ["Airwallex Pty Ltd","ACN 609 653 312","Airwallex (Cayman) Limited","Airwallex Capital Pty Ltd","Airwallex SVF Pty Ltd","Airwallex Holdings (Australia) Pty Ltd","AFSL 487221","AUSTRAC external audit","designated business group","Jack Zhang","Lucy Liu","Airwallex (UK) Limited","Airwallex Global Limited","AWX Brasil Instituição de Pagamento","Tencent","HongShan","Square Peg","cross-border payments","electronic money institution","Series H"] --- # Airwallex licences and group companies abroad **Question.** Which Airwallex companies hold payment licences outside Australia, and what do regulators' registers confirm? **Answer.** The group's licensing disclosure lists licensed member companies in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Israel and the Americas. Regulator registers retained in the case confirm the licences of Airwallex companies in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia and Brazil; for entries such as mainland China, Canada, Israel and New Zealand only the group's own list is retained. Several licences came through acquisitions: UniCard Solution in Hong Kong in 2021, MexPago in Mexico, PT Skye Sab in Indonesia and Paynuri in South Korea. ## The group's list - Analysis: The group's licensing disclosure lists its licensed companies by country: Airwallex Pty Ltd and Airwallex Capital Pty Ltd in Australia; AWX Brasil Instituição de Pagamento in Brazil; Airwallex (Canada) International Payments in Canada; Yunhui Pay in mainland China; Airwallex (Hong Kong), UniCard Solution and Airwallex Capital Hong Kong in Hong Kong; PT Skye Sab Indonesia; Airwallex (Israel); Airwallex Japan; AWX Lithuania; Airwallex (Malaysia); MexPago in Mexico; Airwallex (Netherlands) and Airwallex Capital (Netherlands); Airwallex (New Zealand); Airwallex (Singapore) and Airwallex Capital (Singapore); Paynuri in South Korea; Airwallex (UK); Airwallex US and AWX Capital US in the United States; and a Vietnamese member company holding an intermediary payment service licence. This is the group's own list; regulator records retained in the case confirm the entries for Australia, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Singapore, Hong Kong (UniCard and Airwallex Capital Hong Kong), Japan, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and Brazil. [src-011] ## Europe - Analysis: In the United Kingdom, Airwallex (UK) Limited has been an authorised electronic money institution under FCA reference 900876 since 26 November 2018; a second, cancelled entry under the same name has no stated date or reason. De Nederlandsche Bank lists Airwallex (Netherlands) B.V. (Chamber of Commerce 77519256, LEI 724500FH0D6K3YH7TS78, seat Amsterdam) as an electronic money institution under relation number R179622, authorised since 30 April 2021 to issue e-money and provide payment services with an EU passport; Airwallex Netherlands Stichting holds customer funds as its third-party account entity and is included in DNB's supervision. According to the licensing disclosure, Airwallex Capital (Netherlands) B.V. has been licensed by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets since 31 July 2025 to receive, transmit and execute orders for participation rights in recognised money market funds, with a passport across the European Economic Area; the AFM register entry itself is not retained. The Bank of Lithuania lists AWX Lithuania, UAB (company code 305697289, authorisation code LB002102, Vilnius) as an electronic money institution licensed for unlimited activity from 6 October 2021, and as a currency exchange operator. [src-096] [src-011] [src-100] [src-016] [src-042] [src-043] ## Asia-Pacific - Analysis: The Monetary Authority of Singapore lists Airwallex (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. as a major payment institution licensed for account issuance, domestic and cross-border money transfer, merchant acquisition and e-money issuance, with Wu Kai named as key personnel; the licensing disclosure gives licence number PS20200541 and names Airwallex Capital (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. as holder of capital markets services licence CMS101830. In Hong Kong the disclosure lists Airwallex (Hong Kong) Ltd as a money service operator licensed by the Customs and Excise Department (licence 16-09-01929); the Hong Kong Monetary Authority lists UniCard Solution Limited as a stored value facility licensee (SVF0009) since 4 November 2016, and the Securities and Futures Commission shows Airwallex Capital Hong Kong Limited (CE number BUL570) licensed since 2 September 2024 for advising on securities and asset management, with no licence for virtual-asset services. Japan's Financial Services Agency lists Airwallex Japan K.K. (corporate number 1010401137711) as an electronic payment agency service provider (No. 119, 4 September 2023) and a second-type funds transfer service provider (No. 00100, from 8 September 2025), and the disclosure adds a registration as a credit-card-number handler. Bank Negara Malaysia lists Airwallex (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (1269761X) as a registered non-bank merchant acquirer and e-money issuer with foreign ownership, whose e-money products are a multi-currency digital wallet and a corporate Visa prepaid card; the disclosure adds a money services business licence. Airwallex (New Zealand) Ltd is registered on New Zealand's Financial Service Providers Register as FSP1001602, and Yunhui Pay Co. Ltd is listed as licensed by the People's Bank of China for Type I stored value accounts (Z2025844000016), both according to the disclosure only; no Chinese record of Yunhui Pay is retained and its ownership is not stated. [src-044] [src-011] [src-045] [src-069] [src-081] [src-094] [src-080] - Analysis: Some of these licences came with acquisitions. A technology news site reported on 5 March 2021 that Airwallex had completed its acquisition of the Hong Kong prepaid card operator UniCard Solution after the Hong Kong Monetary Authority consented to Airwallex becoming a shareholder controller; a private-markets database records Airwallex Pty Limited as the buyer and lists Mastercard International Incorporated and Airwallex as current investors. The database is the only retained record naming the Australian company as buyer; the group's disclosure describes UniCard as a group member without naming its shareholder. A regional technology news site reported on 10 December 2025, citing an Airwallex statement, that the group had acquired majority ownership of PT Skye Sab Indonesia, holder of a category 1 payment service provider licence (Bank Indonesia licence 23/583/DKSP/Srt/B). A South Korean business newspaper reported on 22 January 2026 that Airwallex had acquired Paynuri, which holds electronic payment gateway and prepaid payment instrument licences and a foreign-exchange business registration; a Korean company database lists the former Paynuri under the name Airwallex Korea, with a representative whose name it renders as Kai Wu; the database does not identify that person further, so the person is not linked here to the group executive of that name. In neither case is the buyer within the group or the size of the stake stated, and no Korean regulator record is retained. [src-103] [src-083] [src-098] [src-011] [src-104] [src-012] [src-025] ## The Americas and Israel - Analysis: Florida's corporate register lists five Airwallex limited liability companies registered as foreign entities: Airwallex US, LLC (M19000010601), Airwallex Capital (US) LLC, Airwallex Digital (US) LLC and Airwallex Commercelink (US) LLC, all active, and Airwallex Financing Services (US) LLC; the register shows names, numbers and status only, without members or managers. According to the licensing disclosure Airwallex US, LLC is licensed as a money transmitter in the listed US jurisdictions and AWX Capital US is a FINRA member firm. The disclosure also lists Airwallex (Canada) International Payments Ltd as registered with FINTRAC as a money services business (M19395067), licensed in Québec and applying to the Bank of Canada as a payment service provider, and Airwallex (Israel) Ltd (company number 516851961) as authorised by the Israel Securities Authority to provide payment services. On 15 January 2025 Airwallex announced that it had finalised the acquisition of MexPago, a Mexican electronic payment funds institution, and that its founder and chief executive Luis Castillejos Ordaz would become country manager for Mexico; the disclosure names the licensee as MexPago Transacciones, S.A.P.I. de C.V., licensed by Mexico's National Banking and Securities Commission. A deal database dates the acquisition to 19 October 2023, presumably the agreement, and the buyer within the group is not named. [src-070] [src-011] [src-066] [src-052] [src-054] ## Other acquisitions and ventures - Analysis: In a press release of 4 June 2026 Airwallex announced the acquisition of Leapfin, a financial data automation platform specialising in revenue recognition and reconciliation. A US business magazine reported in June 2026 that Airwallex is incubating Metal, a cryptocurrency start-up led by Loong Wang and Catherine Porter that aims to be a blockchain for tokenised financial products and to help Airwallex process stablecoin payments; the corporate relationship between Airwallex and Metal is not described. [src-027] [src-024] ## Sources - [src-011] Company statement source · src-011 - [src-096] FCA register: list of e-money firms (CSV), Financial Conduct Authority, 2026-10-16 - [src-100] Gibraltar FSC register: Airwallex (UK) Limited, Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, 2026-10-17 - [src-016] Companies House: AIRWALLEX (UK) LIMITED (10103420), officers, Companies House, 2026-10-17 - [src-042] De Nederlandsche Bank public register: Airwallex (Netherlands) B.V. (R179622), De Nederlandsche Bank, 2026-10-17 - [src-043] Bank of Lithuania: financial market participant AWX Lithuania, UAB, Bank of Lithuania, 2026-10-17 - [src-044] MAS Financial Institutions Directory: AIRWALLEX (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD., Monetary Authority of Singapore, 2026-10-17 - [src-045] HKMA register of stored value facility licensees, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, 2026-10-17 - [src-069] SFC public register: Airwallex Capital Hong Kong Limited (BUL570), Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, 2026-10-16 - [src-081] Financial Services Agency of Japan: list of registered electronic payment agency service providers, Financial Services Agency (Japan), 2026-08-31 - [src-094] Financial Services Agency of Japan: list of registered funds transfer service providers, Financial Services Agency (Japan), 2026-08-31 - [src-080] Bank Negara Malaysia financial sector participants: Airwallex (Malaysia) Sdn. 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