Methodology · South Africa

How the South Africa tracker is built. Data is official and read on every build.

Sources

• FSCA, list of crypto asset service providers (CASPs) licensed under the FAIS Act, March 2026: all four sections (licensed; product categories removed; lapsed; provisionally withdrawn). Rows are read from the PDF's tables; the running numbers in each section must run 1 to n without gaps, and no FSP number may appear twice.
• FSCA press release of 15 April 2026: application, investigation and inspection figures, each checked against the release text on every build.
• FSCA list titled April 2024, still linked from the FSCA home page: used only as a dated earlier snapshot.

Source Hierarchy

1. official FSCA.
2. company none used.
3. press · secondary none used.

Names and Labels

Names are shown as on the FSCA list, converted to title case; a short name (Luno, VALR, Altcoin Trader, Ovex, Yellow Card, FNB) is used only where the FSCA legal name is that brand. We do not link a licence to a brand that is not named on the list. “Not on FSCA list” covers global brands we checked; it is not a finding about how they serve South African users.

Limits

• The list carries a month, not a day, and no licence dates.
• No newer FSCA list was found as of 21 Oct 2026. The FSCA's licensing figures date from 31 March 2026.
• The figures for applications still being considered (82) are the remainder after approvals, declines and withdrawals.

Corrections

Write to press@vasptracker.com with the page and the source. Published corrections: none.