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Glossary of terms

Plain English, with no jargon used to explain jargon. The terms used on this website, in the sense in which the Group uses them. Definitions are for orientation and are not legal definitions unless a statute is cited.

Authorisation
Permission from a financial regulator to carry on a regulated activity. In the United Kingdom, granted by the FCA or PRA under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
ART / EMT
Asset-referenced token / e-money token: the two categories of stablecoin regulated under MiCA.
Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS)
A model in which a customer-facing firm offers financial products on the licence of a separate, regulated partner institution.
CASP
Crypto-asset service provider: a firm authorised under MiCA to provide crypto-asset services in the European Union.
Companies House
The registrar of companies for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Group’s public filings are available there.
Cryptoasset
A cryptographically secured digital representation of value or rights that can be transferred, stored or traded electronically (UK statutory definition).
Direct authorisation
The model in which each regulated activity is carried on by the entity that holds the relevant permission itself, rather than through a partner institution.
DORA
Digital Operational Resilience Act (EU) 2022/2554: ICT-risk, incident and third-party rules for financial entities.
E-money (electronic money)
Electronically stored monetary value issued on receipt of funds for making payments, regulated in the UK under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011.
FCA
Financial Conduct Authority, the UK conduct regulator. The Group is not authorised or regulated by it.
Financial promotion
An invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (FSMA s.21). Nothing on this website is one.
FINMA
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority.
FMA
Financial Market Authority Liechtenstein.
FSMA
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the principal UK financial-services statute.
Holding company
A company whose purpose is to hold shares in, and rights used by, other companies, and which does not itself trade with the public. The NeoBankers Group Limited is one.
IDFE
Integrated Digital Financial Ecosystem: the Group’s architectural concept for operating classical payment and digital-asset activities within one compliance framework. A design, not a product.
Intellectual property
Trade marks, copyright, designs, software and know-how. The Company holds the Group’s intellectual property; see the IP register.
KRS
Krajowy Rejestr Sądowy, the Polish National Court Register of companies.
KYC
Know your customer: identification and verification of a customer, required by anti-money-laundering law.
MiCA
Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (EU) 2023/1114.
PECR
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003: UK rules on cookies and electronic marketing.
PSC
Person with significant control: the registered controller of a UK company. The Company’s PSC is recorded at Companies House.
Report Fraud
The UK national service for reporting fraud and cyber crime (City of London Police), which replaced Action Fraud on 4 December 2025.
Safeguarding
The legal requirement for payment and e-money institutions to protect customer funds, for example by segregation.
Sanctions screening
Checking persons and transactions against sanctions lists (UK OFSI, EU, UN, US OFAC).
Tokenisation
Representing an existing asset or right through a transferable token on a distributed ledger; the underlying legal ownership is unchanged.
TVTG
Liechtenstein Token and Trusted Technology Service Provider Act 2019.
UK GDPR
The United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.
VASP
Virtual-asset service provider: the term used in AML law (FATF; Polish Act of 2018) for crypto exchange and custody businesses, preceding the MiCA concept of CASP.
Whistleblowing
Reporting wrongdoing in the public interest, protected in the UK by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998.

Content last updated: 27 October 2026

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