Money Service Provider (Money Transfer Agent) — Malawi
The Malawi category mapped to cross-border remittance.
Regulator: Reserve Bank of Malawi.
The money service providers named on the RBM « List of Licensed Money Transfer Agents » press release (as of 2024-02-29, authorized under Regulation 3 of the Exchange Control Regulations to deal in foreign currency as Money Transfer Agents). The register grain is agent × money-service-provider × licence-period; per the mapping, the LICENSED remittance providers are the money service providers (the agents — banks/bureaux — are the distribution channel, recorded as notes, not licensees). Deduped across agents by canonical brand (a provider authorized for several agents appears once; corporate suffix variants « … Money Transfer Limited »/« … Limited » folded as aliases). Name-keyed.
Maintained: this official source is re-checked on a weekly schedule — last checked 2026-08-04 · unchanged since the previous check.
Licensed providers
13 entities| # | Provider | Status (as reported) | Source | Source date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centenary Bureau De Change | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 2 | E Kwacha Global Limited | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 3 | Ecobank Malawi Limited | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 4 | FDH Bank Plc | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 5 | FDH Money Bureau Limited | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 6 | FINCA | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 7 | First Capital Bank | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 8 | National Bank of Malawi Plc | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 9 | NBS Bank | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 10 | Post Dot Net | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 11 | Standard Bank Bureau De Change | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 12 | TNM Mpamba Limited | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
| 13 | Victoria Forex Bureau | authorized | Reserve Bank of Malawi | 2024-02-29 |
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)
- → Foreign Exchange Bureau and Money Transfer (Lesotho)
- → Non-Account Based Payment Services (Money Remittance Service) (Botswana)
- → 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)