Overview
- Bitget completed registration on New Zealand’s Financial Service Providers Register on July 23, 2026, listing five service categories that include foreign currency exchange, domestic and cross-border money transfers, client asset custody, portfolio and money management, and execution of financial products.
- The firm also joined New Zealand’s Insurance and Financial Services Ombudsman scheme, giving local customers a formal, independent channel to escalate complaints about its services.
- Bitget says the FSPR entry supports its rToken tokenized exposures and Stock+ broker-style access to U.S. stocks, but the registration does not replace separate licences that some services may need from New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority or the Reserve Bank.
- The company is simultaneously pursuing wider approvals, including a MiCAR application in Austria to seek an EU passport, and plans to form a U.S. entity and pursue money-transmitter, derivatives and broker-dealer permissions before relaunching in the United States.
- Bitget reported strong commercial traction for tokenized products in Q2 2026, with nearly $70 billion in perpetual volume, tokenized assets making up 20–30% of spot volume, and more than $100 million held in tokenized-stock products, a trend that could shift how retail and institutional investors access U.S. equities but will remain shaped by local licensing rules.