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Crypto License in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2026)

Registration regimeResearch in progressLast reviewed 2026-09-06

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The Republika Srpska entry is a record in an evidence register kept on notification, not a discretionary operating licence, and it carries no legal effect in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where no equivalent regime exists. Banking access is a separate obstacle: by a decision of 16 November 2022, published in Official Gazette of BiH 13/23, the Competition Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina fined the Banja Luka branch of Raiffeisen Bank BiH 250,000 KM for cutting a registered provider's account off from digital asset business, and recorded that no law forbids a company from trading cryptocurrency.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has no single crypto law. Only Republika Srpska runs a registration regime for virtual currency service providers, under its securities market law, and an entry there has no effect elsewhere in the country. The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Brcko District have no licensing or registration regime for these providers at all. The 2024 state anti-money-laundering law reaches providers everywhere in the country without licensing any of them.

Key facts

Regime
Registration regime
Regulator
Komisija za hartije od vrijednosti Republike Srpske, the Securities Commission of Republika Srpska, which acts for that entity only
Framework
Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o trzistu hartija od vrijednosti (Republika Srpska) (2022)
Application fee
Not stated in the Republika Srpska securities market law or in the rulebook on the register, the two texts read for this draft
Minimum capital
None stated. No minimum capital for a virtual currency service provider was found in the securities market law or the rulebook
Time to license
A provider must notify the Commission within 30 days of establishment and be entered in the register before it may offer services. Providers already operating when the rulebook took effect had until the end of January 2023 to apply. No statutory deadline for the Commission's own decision was found in the texts read for this draft.
Foreign owners
The Republika Srpska securities market law does not limit participation to residents, and Article 6 admits an issuer established outside Republika Srpska under conditions. No residency requirement for a registrant or its directors was found in the texts read for this draft, and the absence of one was not exhaustively confirmed.

License classes in Bosnia and Herzegovina

License classes, the activities each covers, and their fees and capital requirements where published.
ClassCoversFeeCapital
Virtual currency service provider, a single undifferentiated entryCustody or wallet services, operating a trading platform, exchange between virtual currency and fiat, exchange between virtual currencies, transferring virtual currency for third parties, and taking part in the offer or sale of virtual currencyNot stated in the texts read for this draftNot stated in the texts read for this draft

What the application requires

  • A company or entrepreneur registered under Republika Srpska law
  • Notification to the Commission within 30 days of establishment
  • A description of the internal anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing controls
  • The court decision on company registration
  • The company statute
  • Proof of identity of the responsible persons
  • A bank confirmation of a dedicated business account for virtual currency purchase and sale
  • Segregation of client funds from the provider's own assets, as the rulebook requires

The application process

  1. Incorporate in Republika Srpska

    Register the company or the entrepreneur activity with the Republika Srpska court registry before applying to the Commission

  2. Open a dedicated bank account

    Obtain a bank confirmation that the special-purpose account is used only for virtual currency purchase and sale and is segregated from the firm's own assets

  3. Assemble the file

    Gather the court registration decision, the company statute, identity documents and the bank confirmation the rulebook lists

  4. Notify and request entry

    File the notification of intended virtual currency services together with the request for entry in the register, within 30 days of establishment

  5. Wait for the entry

    The Commission reviews the request, and the provider may not offer virtual currency services until it is entered

  6. Keep the conditions

    Maintain the client risk disclosures and the anti-money-laundering controls described at notification

Costs and taxation

Neither the Republika Srpska securities market law nor the rulebook on the register states an application fee, an annual fee or a minimum capital. Licensing consultancies quote figures of a few hundred euros for a Bosnian crypto licence. No such figure appears in any primary text read for this draft, and what those pages call a licence is an entry in an evidence register.

Corporate profit tax is 10 percent in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Republika Srpska and in Brcko District, per the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency's tax summary. No special digital asset regime was found in any primary source read for this draft.

Who is licensed today

The Republika Srpska register of virtual currency service providers carried two entries when it was read on 6 September 2026: EPUVV-1/23, Digital Asset Menagment d.o.o. Banja Luka, which trades as BCX, and EPUVV-4/23, Crypto Trading Management Servis d.o.o. Istocno Novo Sarajevo. The misspelling of the first name is the register's own. Neither the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina nor Brcko District keeps an equivalent register. See the official register.

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Frequently asked questions

Is the Republika Srpska entry a licence?

No. It is entry in an evidence register kept by the Commission on notification, not a discretionary licence grant, which is how the Commission itself describes it.

Does a Republika Srpska registration work in the Federation?

No source read for this draft gives it any effect there. The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has its own securities regulator and no crypto statute, so a Republika Srpska entry is not a permission to operate in the Federation.

How many firms are on the Republika Srpska register?

Two, read from the Commission's own register page on 6 September 2026: Digital Asset Menagment d.o.o. Banja Luka (EPUVV-1/23) and Crypto Trading Management Servis d.o.o. Istocno Novo Sarajevo (EPUVV-4/23).

Does the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina regulate crypto?

It has no crypto statute. Its Securities Commission has warned that buying digital assets from unauthorised sources sits outside its supervision, and the 2024 state anti-money-laundering law applies to providers there regardless.

What about Brcko District?

Brcko District adopted a new securities market law on 4 March 2026 that opens space for virtual currency in a capital markets context, but no registration regime for virtual currency service providers exists there.

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