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REGULATION

Licensed here. Not licensed there.

Most companies publish a page of regulator logos and hope you stop reading. This one lists each territory we operate an entity in, the authorisation held there if there is one, and says so in as many words when there is not.

TERRITORY BY TERRITORY

Where we are licensed, and where we are not.

Every licence below is read from our content system and refreshed on a schedule, so a licence that is not on record cannot appear here. An application we have made is not a licence and our content system cannot yet hold one, so where there is one it is written out as an application, dated, and kept out of the badge.

South Africa

ZALicensed
Legal entity80 Eight SA (Pty) Ltd
Registration2017/435463/07
Licence
FSPFSCANo. 49010
Search the FSCA register ↗

United Arab Emirates

AENo licence held
Legal entity80EIGHT ME FZCO
Registration4592
No licence on record

Our content system holds no authorisation for United Arab Emirates. We therefore claim none. A registered entity is not a licensed one, and nothing on this site is an offer of a regulated service to residents of a territory we are not licensed in.

Application in progressas at 13 September 2026

We have applied to the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) for a Virtual Asset Service Provider licence covering Broker-Dealer Services. VARA has issued an Initial Approval Confirmation.

That is a stage in an application and not a licence. It does not authorise us to carry on the activity applied for, we do not claim it does, and the line above stands until VARA says otherwise on its own register.

THE ENTITY

Who you are actually contracting with.

© 80 Eight SA (Pty) Ltd · Reg. no. 2017/435463/07 · FSCA FSP 49010 (ZA)

That line sits in the footer of every page on this site. It names the company, its registration number and the authorisation it trades under. If a statement anywhere else disagrees with it, or with the regulator’s own register, the register wins and we want to hear about it.

DO NOT TAKE OUR WORD

How to check any of this yourself.

01

Take the number, not the badge

A logo proves nothing. The licence number in the card above is the only part of a claim you can independently check.

02

Search the regulator's own register

Look the number up on the public register run by the regulator named beside it, not on a page we control. Where our content system publishes a direct register link, it appears on the card.

Search the FSCA register ↗
03

Match the entity name

The name on the register must be the entity named above. A licence held by a related company is not a licence held by the one you are dealing with.

04

Check the categories and the date

A live licence can still be narrower than the service you are being sold. The register shows what it covers and whether it is current.

Our approval date and FICA registration →
WHAT A LICENCE CHANGES FOR YOU

Your territory shapes the whole account.

What you can open

Your jurisdiction decides which products appear in the app at all. Nothing is hidden behind a setting you can flip.

What it is priced in

The currency your balance is quoted in and the payment rails you can use follow the same flag.

Who protects you

The disclosures, limits and complaints route attached to your account are the ones your regulator requires.

Open an account in a territory we are licensed in.

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THE AWKWARD QUESTIONS

Asked and answered without the hedging.

Why does one territory show a licence and another show none?

Because that is what our content system holds. A company can be registered in a country long before it is licensed to offer a regulated service there. We show the registration and say plainly that there is no licence, rather than blur the two together.

Can I use 80eight from a country that is not listed?

Treat anything not listed as not offered. Your jurisdiction is set from the identity documents you verify with, it is resolved on our servers, and a VPN or a change of phone will not move it.

Where do these details come from?

From the same content system the rest of the site reads, refreshed on a schedule. Where a field is missing it is shown as not published instead of being filled in from somewhere else.

Something here does not match the regulator's register.

Then the register is right and we are wrong. Tell us and we will correct the record rather than the page.

Scope of this page

A licence covers the activities written on it and nothing else. Digital assets are not bank deposits and are not covered by a deposit-protection scheme. Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. Holding an authorisation in one territory says nothing about our standing in another, and this page is a statement of record rather than an offer of service.

Regulated where it says so.

Check the number, then open an account knowing exactly who holds your money and who supervises them.

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