Regulatory Permissions for a Global Payment Services Firm

Our client wished to gain an ACPR Payment Institution license in France and asked for Lysis' assistance to prepare all the documents and for general support during the application process.

Division
Innovation, Authorisations & Banking Solutions
Industry

Payment Services & Card/ Merchant Acquirers

Service-line

The Client

Global Payment Services Firm

The Challenge

Our client wished to gain an ACPR Payment Institution license in France and asked for Lysis' assistance to prepare all the documents and for general support during the application process.

The Solution

Lysis worked with the firm's compliance department to adapt the UK governance and compliance framework to be suitable for the ACPR. License acquired, we then worked with our client to implement and embed the new framework as they started operations in France.

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