Xavion coordinates iGaming licensing with local providers and builds the banking and payment file in parallel, so your licensed entity can actually be onboarded.
Most iGaming founders treat the licence and the bank account as two separate projects. They pay for a licence, form the company, and only then start applying to banks and payment providers, often discovering that the structure they chose is one nobody will onboard. Xavion runs licensing and banking as a single project. We work with licensed local providers and gaming counsel to obtain the licence, and in parallel build the banking and payment file so the new entity has realistic account options from the day the licence is issued.
No. Licences are issued only by gaming regulators. We coordinate the application with licensed local corporate service providers and gaming counsel and manage the banking side in parallel.
We start with where your players are and how they pay. That determines which licence is necessary, which payment rails are realistic, and which countries must be blocked. A crypto-first casino serving markets without a local regime has very different needs from a sportsbook that needs card acquiring in regulated markets. This step often saves founders from paying for the wrong licence.
We recommend a licence (Curaçao, Anjouan, Malta, Isle of Man, Kahnawake or another regime) and a corporate structure that the licensing authority and the banks will both accept. That may include a licensed operating company, a separate payment or services entity, and a holding company. Every element must have a genuine commercial reason; structures that exist only to hide the gambling activity from banks fail.
Banks and regulators ask for overlapping documents: UBO identity and source of wealth, a business plan, AML and KYC policies, responsible-gambling policy, restricted-country list, platform and supplier contracts, and player-fund handling. We prepare these once, to a standard that satisfies both, so the regulator review and bank onboarding run in parallel instead of in sequence.
Send us your structure and MCC. We come back with a placement plan you can act on, not a pitch.
Once the file is ready, we approach the banks, EMIs, gaming PSPs and crypto providers that currently accept your licence type and markets. We aim for more than one relationship, so a single account review does not stop operations. Expect underwriters to ask follow-up questions; we handle that correspondence with you.
We do not promise licences or accounts, we do not disguise gambling as another business, and we do not structure for markets where online gambling is prohibited for the players you want to reach. That discipline is why the files we build get approved and stay open. Xavion Capital works alongside licensed corporate service providers and local gaming counsel in each jurisdiction. We coordinate the licence application, the company structure and the banking file as one project, so the entity that receives the licence is also one a specialist bank or EMI can onboard. No adviser can guarantee a licence or an account, and regulator fees and rules change, so every figure is confirmed with the regulator at the time of filing.
We introduce assessed profiles to the institution best matched to your MCC, structure, and UBO. Warm intros, not cold applications.
Kris — Partner, Xavion Capital
Partner at Xavion Capital. Runs the banking and payment-rails desk: account placement, high-risk onboarding files, and replacement banking after a termination.
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