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FINTRAC licence recorded for Uphold

Holder
Uphold
Jurisdiction
Canada
Licence type
Financial Service

This is Wikilix's record of a licence issued by Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada. It sets out what the register says, what we checked, and what the authority's own rules protect.

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RecordModified Jul 27, 2026

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Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada No number on the register

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

Issuing authority
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada
Holder
Uphold Worldwide Ltd
Jurisdiction
Canada
Licence type
Financial Service

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Open UpholdAbout FINTRAC
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 3
Jurisdiction
Canada
Last checked
Never

Nobody at Wikilix has looked this licence up on the official register yet. Everything above comes from the record as supplied; treat it as a claim until you have checked it yourself.

A licence record describes what an authority published. It is not an endorsement, and Wikilix does not issue authorisations.
The register

What the authority publishes

Printed as the register prints it. A field that is missing here is one nobody has recorded, not one the register leaves blank.

Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Financial Service
The authority

About FINTRAC

Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is Canada.

Full name
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada
Jurisdiction
Canada
Strength
Tier 3Lighter-touch supervision; protections vary and are often limited.
Established
2000
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
3 firms
Licences it issues
Money services business registration; foreign exchange dealers; remittance; virtual currency dealer
Typical cost of a licence
Registration free; compliance costs
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
Medium

FINTRAC is classed as an offshore regime. An offshore registration can be entirely legitimate, but it typically means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.

Protection

What this licence protects

FINTRAC's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • No compensation scheme
  • Complaints routeComplaints to FINTRAC or Office of the Privacy Commissioner
  • Maximum leverageN/A
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.
Uphold holds this FINTRAC 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 FINTRAC 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 FINTRAC tier 3. Supervision is lighter-touch and client protections vary.
Yes, FINTRAC is classed as an offshore regime. That can be a legitimate registration, but it usually means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.
Uphold has 2 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 2 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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