Foreign Exchange Bureau and Money Transfer — Lesotho
The Lesotho category mapped to cross-border remittance.
Regulator: Central Bank of Lesotho.
The « Foreign Exchange Bureau and Money Transfer » category of the CBL WordPress Business Directory register. Mapped to REMITTANCE_XBORDER per the Financial Institutions (Money Transfer) Regulations, 2014 — both current listings carry the register's own per-entity « (Foreign Exchange & Money Transfer) » scope (money-transfer authority is stated, not inferred; the ZA ADLA-Category-3 precedent). The category conflates the FX-bureau lane (out of the 4-activity universe) with money transfer (in universe); it is mapped for the money-transfer authority the register attributes to each entity. Name-keyed. ICP: Mukuru Bureau De Change → grp:mukuru (a register-printed multi-market group light-up; Interchange is a CMA-wide bureau name but no grp: exists → HELD, ADR-057).
Maintained: this official source is re-checked on a weekly schedule — last checked 2026-08-04 · changed 2026-08-04.
Licensed providers
2 entities| # | Provider | Status (as reported) | Source | Source date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interchange (Pty) Ltd | licensed | Central Bank of Lesotho | not dated |
| 2 | Mukuru Bureau De Change (Pty) Ltd | licensed | Central Bank of Lesotho | not dated |
Reading the tables
- not dated
- — the official source publishes no date of its own. We show our own last-checked date instead of inventing one for the regulator.
Licence requirements
What it takes to hold this licence, as stated in the cited official instruments. Capital and fees are shown in the currency the statute itself uses.
| Requirement | As published | Source | Source date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum capital | No such requirement: The Financial Institutions (Money Transfer) Regulations, 2014 publish no minimum-capital figure for a money-transfer business — the application asks for a "Proposed Capital Structure" without a statutory floor. A genuine structural absence. | Financial Institutions (Money Transfer) Regulations, 2014 (LN No. 14 of 2014) — Schedule IV (fees) | 2014-02-24 |
| Local presence / incorporation | A value has been located but not yet verified, so we don't publish it here. | — | — |
| Timeline | No such requirement: The 2014 Regulations publish no statutory regulator decision window for a money-transfer licence application. | Financial Institutions (Money Transfer) Regulations, 2014 (LN No. 14 of 2014) — Schedule IV (fees) | 2014-02-24 |
| Local ownership | No such requirement: The 2014 Regulations impose no local-shareholding or nationality cap on a money-transfer business. | Financial Institutions (Money Transfer) Regulations, 2014 (LN No. 14 of 2014) — Schedule IV (fees) | 2014-02-24 |
| Fees | Investigation fee M500; Registration fee M500; Licence fee M1000; Renewal fee M1000; Branch-opening fee M1000 (Schedule IV, Money Transfer Business). Verbatim“Money M 500.00 M 500.00 M 1000.00 M 1000.00 M 1000.00 Transfer Business” | Financial Institutions (Money Transfer) Regulations, 2014 (LN No. 14 of 2014) — Schedule IV (fees) | 2014-02-24 |
| Ongoing obligations | A value has been located but not yet verified, so we don't publish it here. | — | — |
Requirements as published in the cited instruments — not legal or compliance advice. Where a value is located but not yet verified, we show that it exists but don't publish the figure. Verify directly with the regulator.
The equivalent in other markets
Categories mapped to the same normalized activity —
fintech:REMITTANCE_XBORDER:
- → International Money Transfer Operators (IMTO) (Nigeria)
- → Money Remittance Provider (Kenya)
- → International Money Transfer Operator (Ghana)
- → Authorised Dealer in foreign exchange with Limited Authority - Category 3 (South Africa)
- → Money Transfer Service Provider (Tanzania)
- → Money Remittance Operator (Uganda)
- → Money Transfer Service Provider (Zambia)
- → Remittance (Rwanda)
- → Money Remittance/Transfer Agency (Ethiopia)
- → Établissement de paiement spécialisé, exclusivement, en matière de transfert de fonds (Morocco)
- → Authorised Dealer with Limited Authority - Tier 1 (Zimbabwe)
- → Authorised Dealer with Limited Authority - Tier 2 (Zimbabwe)
- → Messagerie financière (DR Congo)
- → Instituição de transferência de fundos (Mozambique)
- → Casa de câmbio autorizada a exercer actividade de remessa de valores (Angola)
- → Non-Account Based Payment Services (Money Remittance Service) (Botswana)
- → Money Service Provider (Money Transfer Agent) (Malawi)
- → Établissement de paiement (Tunisia)
- → Money Transfer Business (Somalia)
- → Établissement de paiement de transmission de fonds à l'international (Burundi)
- → Auxiliaire financier (Djibouti)
- → Payment service provider (Seychelles)