Legal & Compliance
Pay.so is a user interface that links together several services in a easy-to-use way, creating a delightful user experience while staying compliant to the highest standards of financial compliance and cybersecurity.
Partners
Chainalysis is the market leader in blockchain risk screening, allowing us to enforce a responsible Anti-Money Laundering policy and ensure the platform is not used by bad actors.
Pay.so Core is a independent company based in the EU, separate from our US/UK operations, licensed to perform crypto-to-fiat conversion under supervision of the FCIS of Lithuania.
Although the user experience feels like we hold your funds, we don't! Your funds are locked in a decentralised wallet that only you can request the private keys for. Magic makes this possible.
How we stay compliant?
Make decentralised wallets easy to interact with.
Use third-party services to move funds between crypto and fiat.
Safely prepare transactions so buyers can transmit funds directly to sellers with confidence.
Hold digital assets on behalf of others
Engage in regulated activity - like crypto/fiat conversion - ourselves.
Touch customer funds at any point in the transfer process.
Security
Operating Securely
Pay.so is just a UI over three established blockchains: Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Polygon. All of them have been battle-tested in public to years to act as safe mechanisms for funds transfer.
Funds move directly
Pay.so can not touch or hold user’s funds, instead only helping users initiate safe transfers directly between wallets.
Private keys stay private
Pay.so does not manage any private keys, nor does it hold any funds - either in crypto or fiat. Not only is it resistant to hacking attempts, there’s not much to steal in the first place.
Frequently asked questions
Because Pay.so does not hold customer funds or make conversions between crypto and fiat, it is exempt from needing to hold financial licences. Instead, all regulated activities are performed by its licensed partners. Pay.so Core is a separate company, developed by the same founding team, established in the EU that is licensed and supervised by the Financial Crime Investigation Service of Lithuania.
Our key partners have been in businesses much longer than we have (in most cases, since 2013) and are the very same partners used by the most reputable companies in the fintech space. Remember, all of your funds are stored in decentralised wallets that only you hold the private keys for, so your funds cannot be touched by any third party.
Our API relies on the same infrastructure that our UI does, so you do not need to hold any licences to use our API. Our partners cover that for you!