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Uphold: FinCEN licence 1269875

Issuing authority
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Jurisdiction
United States
Licence type
Financial Service

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RecordModified Jul 27, 2026

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Financial Crimes Enforcement Network 1269875

Recorded from the firm's own disclosure. Not yet checked against the register.

Holder
Uphold Worldwide Ltd
Issuing authority
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Jurisdiction
United States
Licence type
Financial Service

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Our check

What we checked

Nobody has adjudicated this licence yet. It is recorded here as claimed, not as confirmed.

Wikilix check
Not checked
Authority strength
Tier 1
Jurisdiction
United States
Last checked
Never

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The register

What the authority publishes

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Licence number
1269875
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Financial Service
The authority

About FinCEN

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is United States.

Full name
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Jurisdiction
United States
Strength
N/A for broker licensingThe strictest regimes: high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
Established
1990
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
38 firms
Regulates
Forex
Licences it issues
US AML registry; MSB registration required but not a broker licence
Typical cost of a licence
Not available
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
Medium
Protection

What this licence protects

FinCEN's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • No complaints route
  • Maximum leverageVaries by firm / local rules
This describes the authority's regime, not how Uphold applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against Uphold. Wikilix holds no separate company records for this holder, so we cannot say which legal company the register issued it to.

Broker
Uphold Worldwide Ltd
Based in
Bahamas
Wikilix score
50.3the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence
Provenance

Where this record came from

Every date below has already happened. We do not publish a promised next-update date, because we do not schedule per-licence re-checks.

Last checked by Wikilix
Never — nobody has looked this entry up yet
Record last edited
When this entry was last changed in our database, which may be a correction rather than a change at the register.
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Also on record

Other licences Uphold holds

2 other licences are on record for Uphold.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

Answered from this register entry and the authority’s own record.

Most Popular Questions
Proprietary multi-asset trading platform accessible via web browser and mobile apps (iOS & Android). Users can buy, sell, and swap cryptocurrencies, fiat currencies, and precious metals directly on the platform with an intuitive “anything-to-anything” interface.
Uphold offers trading in forex, bonds, stocks, funds, options, derivatives, commodities, loans, and retail investments. The availability of instruments may vary depending on the regulatory jurisdiction.
Uphold supports various funding methods including debit and credit cards, ACH transfers, wire transfers, SEPA, FPS, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Interac (Canada), and crypto networks.
Uphold Worldwide Ltd is regulated by multiple authorities including the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in the US, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK, and FINTRAC in Canada.
Licence 1269875 was issued by Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the financial authority for United States.
Uphold holds this FinCEN licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
Nobody at Wikilix has looked this entry up on the FinCEN register yet, so treat it as claimed rather than confirmed. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding against the licence.
Wikilix rates FinCEN tier 1 — the strictest band, with high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
Uphold has 2 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 2 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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