Bitstamp Asia

Crypto service provider · Singapore, Singapore

Bitstamp Asia Pte Ltd is the Singapore entity of Bitstamp, the crypto exchange founded in 2011 and bought by Robinhood for USD 200 million in June 2025. It holds a Monetary Authority of Singapore major payment institution licence, number PS20200667, and runs Bitstamp's Asia-Pacific business from 21 Collyer Quay. Customers buy, sell and hold crypto-assets and fund accounts in USD, EUR, GBP and SGD, with maker-taker trading fees from 0.30 and 0.40 percent falling to 0.06 and 0.16 percent above USD 1.5 million of monthly volume. This is an exchange account, not a business bank account: there is no lending, no card and no payment rails for a company's ordinary trading.

Legal name: Bitstamp Asia Pte Ltd
Regulated by: MAS (Singapore, major payment institution PS20200667), CSSF (Luxembourg, Bitstamp Europe S.A.), FCA (UK, Bitstamp UK Ltd, FRN 978690), NYDFS (Bitstamp USA, Inc.), British Virgin Islands FSC (Bitstamp Global Ltd), ATVP (Slovenia, Bitstamp Financial Services Ltd)
Licence confirmed: yes, on a regulator's own list
Established: 2011
Website: www.bitstamp.net

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8.5Crypto-friendly bank

The entire business is crypto: a MAS major payment institution licence for digital payment token services, a MiCA CASP licence in Luxembourg and a NYDFS virtual currency licence in the United States. · source

8.5On-ramp: buy crypto with fiat

Since October 2025 companies in Singapore fund accounts instantly in SGD over PayNow and convert via a USD/SGD pair into its USD crypto markets. · source

8.5Off-ramp: crypto to fiat in a business account

SGD withdrawals over PayNow are instant for Bitstamp Asia customers, including corporations, per its October 2025 announcement. · source

8.5Bitcoin

Corporate accounts can buy, hold, deposit and withdraw BTC on a Nasdaq-powered matching engine under the MAS licence. · source

8.0Crypto wallet and custody for a business

Bitstamp Asia holds crypto for corporations and institutional investors under its MAS Major Payment Institution licence PS20200667; its Singapore pages do not describe multi-user approval rules for company accounts. · source

8.0Ethereum

ETH and ERC-20 tokens are traded, held and transferred by Singapore corporate customers; staking is not offered under the Singapore entity. · source

7.0Stablecoins (USDC, USDT and others)

Stablecoins such as USDC trade against USD and SGD bridges for Singapore customers, but there is no stablecoin payout product and no own stablecoin. · source

6.5Europe (EU, EEA, Switzerland)

Bitstamp Europe S.A. holds a CSSF payment institution licence Z00000012 and a MiCA crypto-asset service provider licence N00000003 passported across the EEA, and funds euro accounts over SEPA. · source

6.5Lowest fees

The full maker-taker table is published, starting at 0.30 and 0.40 percent and falling to 0.06 and 0.16 percent above USD 1.5 million of monthly volume, with SEPA withdrawals at EUR 3.00 and GBP withdrawals at GBP 2.00. · source

5.5Asia-Pacific (SG, HK, AU, JP, KR)

Singapore is the only APAC licence, a MAS major payment institution licence PS20200667, and SGD appears in the fee schedule as an FX pair rather than as a local rail. · source

5.5Financial strength & stability

Owned since June 2025 by Robinhood, which paid USD 200 million for it, and running since 2011, but Bitstamp Asia publishes no accounts and holds no credit rating. · source

5.0United States

Bitstamp USA, Inc. holds a New York virtual currency business activity licence and a New York money transmitter licence, NMLS 1905429, and supports ACH funding, but offers no business current account. · source

5.0Foreign-owned & non-resident companies

Residency decides which of the five crypto entities serves you, so foreign-owned companies are onboarded where an entity covers them, but derivatives are closed to the United States, Canada, Japan and some other countries. · source

4.5United Kingdom

Bitstamp UK Ltd is registered with the FCA only for cryptoasset activities under the Money Laundering Regulations, FRN 978690, which is a registration rather than a banking or e-money authorisation. · source

4.5Fast digital onboarding

Sign-up is online, but the entity you are served by depends on residency across five crypto entities and Trustpilot reviewers report verification holds of one to three weeks; no time to open is published. · source

4.0Cross-border payments, FX and multi-currency accounts

Four fiat currencies are visible in the fee schedule, USD, EUR, GBP and SGD, moved over SEPA and ACH; FX between them happens as exchange trading pairs with maker-taker fees rather than as a payment product with a published margin. Four fiat currencies and no cash pooling, hedging lines or host-to-host connectivity; a company can hold balances to trade but cannot run group treasury here. · source

3.5Fintech companies that need a partner bank

Bitstamp offers no safeguarding accounts, BIN sponsorship or rail access to other payment firms; the Luxembourg payment institution licence supports its own exchange funding. · source

3.0Best interest on business balances

No interest rate, savings product or treasury sweep on fiat balances appears anywhere on the fee schedule; the account is a trading account. · source

3.0Startups & VC-backed companies

No startup programme, venture debt or pre-revenue onboarding path; a startup is treated as an ordinary exchange customer. · source

3.0High-risk verticals (iGaming, cannabis, adult, forex)

Bitstamp publishes no acceptable-use policy covering gambling, cannabis, adult or forex operators on its legal or fee pages, so there is no stated path for those verticals. · source

2.5Online businesses: e-commerce and SaaS

No acquiring, no local collection accounts and no marketplace payouts; the fee schedule covers trading and SEPA, ACH and GBP funding only. No local receiving accounts for a software company, no accounting integrations and no revenue-based financing; the API is a trading API. · source

2.0Customer satisfaction

Trustpilot rates Bitstamp 1.4 out of 5, in its Bad band. · source

1.5Business cards (Visa, Mastercard)

No business debit or credit card is offered; the fee schedule covers trading, SEPA, ACH and GBP transfers only. · source

1.0Trade, manufacturing & import-export

No letters of credit, guarantees, documentary collections or supply-chain finance; the entity's licence covers digital payment token services. · source

1.0Accept crypto payments

Bitstamp is an exchange and offers no merchant checkout or crypto invoice acceptance in Singapore, checked on its legal and product pages in September 2026. · source

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