Share this article
Crypto Exchange Luno Wins Regulator Registration in France
The AMF registration allows the CoinDesk sister company to custody digital assets, facilitate their purchase, sale and exchange, and operate a trading platform for them.
Updated May 11, 2023, 6:55 p.m. Published Aug 2, 2022, 12:59 p.m.
Cryptocurrency exchange Luno has been given digital asset service provider (DASP) registration in France by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).
Luno's parent company, Digital Currency Group, is also the parent of CoinDesk.
STORY CONTINUES BELOW
Don't miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto Daybook Americas Newsletter today. See all newsletters
DASP registration allows Luno to custody digital assets, facilitate their purchase, sale and exchange, and operate a trading platform for them.
"Prior to registration, we could only offer our services to French customers on a reverse solicitation basis," Luno's global head of public policy, Thomas Tudehope, told CoinDesk. "This means that prospective customers had to approach Luno through their own initiative. The registration now enables us to offer our products and services directly to French customers resident in France.”
Luno follows in the footsteps of the world's largest crypto exchange by volume, Binance, which received DASP registration from the AMF in May.
Additionally, Luno plans to move toward being licensed by the AMF, which no DASP has yet attained.
While registration allows a firm to provide services to French consumers, licensing provides benefits such as engaging in direct marketing.
Luno has around nine million customers worldwide, a large swath of whom are in Africa. Along with London, it also has offices in Singapore, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lagos and Sydney.
Founded in 2013, Luno was acquired by Digital Currency Group in 2020.
Read more: France's Crypto Industry Fights Institutional Caution
More For You
What to know:
- As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
- GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
- Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B.
More For You
From Wall Street to the World Cup: How Football Became Crypto’s Biggest Gateway Drug
As institutions are laying the groundwork for wider crypto adoption from the top down, it’s being met by rising interest from football fans from the ground up.
Top Stories
