Bybit secures Austrian EMI licence for EU payments

# Bybit secures Austrian EMI licence for EU payments

> Evidence tier: B1
> Evidence type: Independent payments trade media report
> Source: [The Paypers](https://thepaypers.com/payments/news/bybit-secures-austrian-emi-licence-for-eu-payments)
> Published: 2026-08-06
> Captured: 2026-08-06T17:28:35.087Z

## Source summary

The Paypers reports that Vienna-based Bybit Payments GmbH obtained an Austrian electronic-money-institution licence. The entity can issue electronic money and provide incoming and outgoing payments, payment transactions, and issuing and acquiring services under Austria's Payment Services Act 2018; it will operate separately from MiCA-regulated Bybit EU GmbH.

## Why it matters

The licence creates a regulated payments entity that can support Bybit's European money-movement products beyond crypto-asset services. The report does not establish passported country coverage, launch dates, live customers, corridors, currencies, pricing or transaction volume, so authorisation should not be read as proof of deployment.

## Key numbers

No independently checkable key number was extracted from this report.

## Topics and entities

- Industry lane: Cross-border market
- Entities: Bybit Payments GmbH
- Cross-border payments
- Payment infrastructure

## Evidence and credibility note

Independent The Paypers report. The licence scope is reported from company/regulatory information; passporting, product availability and operating outcomes are not disclosed.

Date evidence: Automatically verified from JSON-LD datePublished: 2026-08-06T10:39:33+00:00

## First-party corroboration

No directly corresponding A1 company announcement is currently linked.

## Original-source traceback

[Open the original The Paypers report](https://thepaypers.com/payments/news/bybit-secures-austrian-emi-licence-for-eu-payments)

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