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FINTRAC is revoking MSB registrations faster than ever. Losing yours shuts your business down overnight and can trigger bank account closures before any appeal resolves. We have helped MSBs successfully keep their registration. Act now.
We act for MSB operators facing the loss of their FINTRAC registration. You are in the right place if any of these apply.
The earlier we are involved, the more we can do.
A FINTRAC revocation removes your legal authority to operate, which is why appealing a FINTRAC MSB revocation quickly matters. Once final, continuing to run your business is a legal violation, not just a compliance issue.
is the warning stage. The decision is not yet final, and you have 30 days to request a review and file formal representations. Miss that deadline and the revocation proceeds uncontested. This is where your defence is strongest and where most of our successful work is done.
means the decision has been made. These cases are harder. But the door is not always closed. We can approach FINTRAC directly before the matter reaches the Federal Court. No honest firm can guarantee a reversal at this stage.
If FINTRAC upholds the revocation after review, Federal Court judicial review is the remaining option. We will tell you honestly whether it makes sense for your situation.
A FINTRAC revocation does more damage than most operators expect.
Once your registration shows as revoked on the public FINTRAC registry, banks can close your accounts within weeks, before any appeal is resolved.
Banking partners and payment processors check the public registry. Revocation disrupts those relationships fast.
Anyone searching the registry, including clients, partners, and banks, will see the change immediately. A revocation on the public record damages credibility before you have had a chance to respond.
Acting before the 30-day window closes is not optional. It is the difference between saving your business and losing it.
The most common cause today is simple, not responding to FINTRAC. A request arrives, the operator is unsure or busy, time passes, and that silence triggers revocation.
Failing to respond to a clarification request within 30 days, or failing to assist FINTRAC, are standalone grounds for revocation regardless of how your compliance program looks on paper.
If that is your situation, it is not hopeless. The priority is getting a proper response to any FINTRAC notice of intent to revoke in front of FINTRAC without further delay.
An outdated or paper-only program is one of the first things FINTRAC examines, and one of the easiest to cite as grounds for action.
Failing to file suspicious transaction reports or large cash transaction reports is a serious flag. Repeated failures are treated far more harshly than a single lapse.
If you cannot show that you properly identify your clients, FINTRAC has reason to question your entire operation.
Missing or incomplete records undermine your credibility even when everything else looks sound.
Changes to ownership, address, or key personnel must be reported. Stale registration information is a standalone revocation ground.
Previous penalties do not end your appeal, but they raise the bar. A pattern of enforcement gives FINTRAC an easier case to make, and your remediation plan needs to be more specific and credible to overcome it. We will give you an honest read on this in the free consultation.
We identify exactly why FINTRAC moved against you and where the strongest grounds for a response lie.
We draft your formal, evidence-backed response to FINTRAC's decision maker. This is where your case is won or lost, and it is not a step to take without counsel.
You are not left navigating a federal regulator alone. We handle the communication and advocate for your registration.
You must stop operating as an MSB once revocation is in motion. Continuing adds fines and weakens your standing. We advise you on doing this correctly.
If FINTRAC upholds the revocation, we will tell you honestly whether judicial review makes sense, not push you into a process unlikely to help.
If your registration is ultimately lost, re-registration from scratch is a real path forward. We can guide you through it.
FINTRAC does not respond to volume or defensiveness. It responds to credibility.
If you have been following the rules, we make that impossible to overlook. This is the single factor that carries the most weight.
Vague promises to do better do not move FINTRAC. Specific steps, timelines, and accountability measures do.
Candour about what went wrong works far better than excuses. Attempting to minimize a lapse signals the problem is unresolved.
A structured, clearly argued submission signals you are serious. A rushed or self-prepared response signals the opposite, before the regulator reads a word.
We have worked directly with FINTRAC on revocation matters and successfully helped clients keep their registration. We have assisted over 100 MSB, fintech, and virtual currency businesses across Canada.
We are not a general firm that takes the occasional FINTRAC file. MSB law, registration, compliance, enforcement, and buy/sell, is what we do.
Domestic MSBs, FMSBs, crypto exchanges, and virtual currency platforms, wherever you operate.
Irbaz Wahab is the principal lawyer at Cloudhaus Law. His practice focuses on Money Services Business and financial regulatory law, advising MSBs, Foreign MSBs, virtual currency dealers, and fintech businesses across Canada on FINTRAC registration, compliance, and enforcement, including revocation defence.
He has worked directly with FINTRAC on behalf of clients facing revocation and successfully helped them retain their registration. As an MSB compliance lawyer, he has assisted over 100 Canadian MSB, crypto, and payments businesses and leads every revocation file personally, from the first consultation through to resolution.
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