Crypto & Digital Assets - Gibraltar

DevelopingFinancial Services (Distributed Ledger Technology Providers) Regulations, made under the Financial Services Act 2019 (FSA), administered by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC). As of 27 October 2025, 'Virtual Asset Arrangements' (exchange services) are also expressly regulated activities under Part 16 of Schedule 2 to the FSA requiring Part 7 permission.

Gibraltar was the first jurisdiction to introduce a bespoke regime (effective 1 January 2018) requiring any firm that uses distributed ledger technology to store or transmit value belonging to others — including crypto exchanges and custodial wallet providers — to be authorised by the GFSC as a 'DLT Provider' under Part 7 of the FSA. The regime is principles-based, built around ten core Regulatory Principles, and supplemented by separate AML/CFT/CPF registration of VASPs under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2015. A 27 October 2025 update formally brought virtual asset exchange arrangements within the FSA, reinforcing that exchanging virtual assets for fiat (or one virtual asset for another) is a licensable activity.

Machine-assisted translation · verified 5/23/2026 · orientation, not legal advice. English version →