A smartphone with the PayPal logo is placed on a laptop in this illustration taken on July 14, 2021.
The regulator has also brought in tougher safeguards on marketing cryptoassets, which have snarled rivals like Binance.
PayPal said on Wednesday that the FCA has approved the company as an authorised electronic money institution and consumer credit firm, as well as its registration as a cryptoasset business, although the pause in UK crypto services would continue as previously announced.
The approvals mean that from Nov. 1 PayPal's UK customers will be transferred to a new entity based in Britain from PayPal Europe, which had hitherto served UK customers, reflecting Britain's departure from the European Union.
"PayPal continues to offer our customers the same products and services in the United Kingdom," it said.
Persons:
Dado Ruvic, PayPal, Huw Jones, Jonathan Oatis, Alexander Smith
Organizations:
PayPal, REUTERS, Financial, Authority, PayPal Europe, European Union, Thomson
Locations:
Britain, United Kingdom