Get the green light to operate.
We take Canadian fintechs through the licensing applications their business depends on — MSB, RPAA, crypto trading platform, and the AML program underneath. Fixed scope. One team. In your corner long after the license is granted.
Licensing that gets simpler with every step.
Fixed scope, one team, and people who stay in your corner long after the license is granted. Scroll through what changes once a fintech files with Greenlit.
Explore our servicesLegal, applications, and compliance on one team.
Licensing is a moment. We stay for everything after.
Filing with the regulators that matter in Canada
FINTRACFederal · AML
Bank of CanadaRPAA · payments
CSA / OSCCrypto · securities
AMFQuébec · provincial
The licensing applications Canadian fintech runs on.
Four registrations cover almost every fintech business model in Canada. We file all four — and the AML program underneath them — as one fixed scope, one team.
Federal registration for money services businesses — crypto dealing, remittance, FX, currency exchange, and money transfer. We prepare the application, build the AML program it depends on, and handle FINTRAC's follow-ups.
Registration with the Bank of Canada under the Retail Payment Activities Act — for processors, wallets, on/off-ramps, and anyone moving funds for end users. We cover the risk-management framework and incident-response policies as part of the filing.
Restricted Dealer and CATP registration with the CSA and provincial regulators — for centralized exchanges, custodians, and platforms offering crypto contracts to Canadian users.
Written programs, risk assessments, ongoing training, transaction-monitoring policies, and regulator-examination support. The program your CCO can actually run — not a binder that sits on a shelf.
MSB Registration (FINTRAC)
Federal registration for money services businesses — crypto dealing, remittance, FX, currency exchange, and money transfer. We prepare the application, build the AML program it depends on, and handle FINTRAC's follow-ups.
Payment Service Provider (RPAA)
Registration with the Bank of Canada under the Retail Payment Activities Act — for processors, wallets, on/off-ramps, and anyone moving funds for end users. We cover the risk-management framework and incident-response policies as part of the filing.
Crypto Asset Trading Platform
Restricted Dealer and CATP registration with the CSA and provincial regulators — for centralized exchanges, custodians, and platforms offering crypto contracts to Canadian users.
AML & Compliance Programs
Written programs, risk assessments, ongoing training, transaction-monitoring policies, and regulator-examination support. The program your CCO can actually run — not a binder that sits on a shelf.
Three points where we come in.
Pre-launch
First-time applicants
Scope, file, and build the AML program before launch.
Active
Exam prep
Rehearse, audit, and represent you through the exam.
Mature
Program rebuild
Rebuild the compliance program you've outgrown.
A scope you can sign off on, then a filing your examiner can read.
Every engagement runs the same four phases — predictable, in writing, with no billable-hour clock.
01
Scope call
30–45 minutes. We map your model to the registrations that actually apply.
02
Fixed proposal
Deliverables, timeline, and price in writing. No hourly billing, no surprises.
03
Filing & program build
We write the application and the AML program together — they have to match.
04
Post-license support
Regulator follow-ups, exam prep, training, and program upkeep on an ongoing basis.
Notes from the desk for Canadian fintech operators.
Guide · FINTRAC
What a clean MSB application actually looks like
A walk-through of the structure FINTRAC reviewers expect, the supporting documentation that catches new applicants out, and the questions they always come back with.
Read the guide →
Explainer · RPAA
RPAA registration: what triggers it and what doesn't
The Retail Payment Activities Act applies to more business models than founders expect — and excludes a few that look like they'd be caught. Here's how to tell.
Read the explainer →
Brief · CSA / OSC
Restricted Dealer registration for crypto platforms in 2026
Where the regulatory perimeter sits today, what the CSA is asking for in pre-registration undertakings, and how Ontario's overlay changes the picture.
Read the brief →Talk to someone who's filed this before.
A scope call is the right place to start. Tell us what you're building and where you want to be regulated — we'll tell you which registrations actually apply, and what a fixed scope looks like.
Daniel Hassan
Head of Licensing
Sarah Whitfield
Managing Director
James Caldwell
Head of AML & Compliance