Kraken
Authorisation record
Authorised services · 1
About Kraken
Payward Global Solutions Limited is an authorised casp (CASP) under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), established in Ireland. It trades as Kraken, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. It is authorised and supervised by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), which notified the authorisation on 25 June 2025. Its registered address is 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland D02 R296. Its Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is 9845003D98SCC2851458.
Its licence covers 1 of the ten crypto-asset services defined by MiCA: operation of a trading platform for crypto-assets.
Under MiCA passporting, Kraken may serve clients in 2 member states without a separate local licence: Cyprus and Ireland.
This record is compiled from the ESMA interim register and the register of the CBI, reflecting the snapshot of 18 August 2026. MICA Watch is an independent aggregator: for legal or compliance purposes, confirm the details against the official sources listed on this page.
Authorisation history
Kraken appears in every MICA Watch snapshot since 11 July 2025, the earliest copy of the register we hold.
Compiled from 17 snapshots of the ESMA register taken between 11 July 2025 and 18 August 2026. ESMA publishes the register as a weekly overwrite and keeps no public archive, so earlier states are not available from the source.