W-HA SA (France) is an electronic money institution authorized and regulated by the Banque de France. W-HA is focused on digital payments and services.
13 August 2024, by Anna Mileiko
TheBanks.eu has developed a proprietary methodology to assign ratings to payment institutions based on their operating environment, company background, business model, market niche, product range, transparency, customer support and customer sentiment. According to the methodology, W-HA SA is assigned the overall rating 1.85 (poor) which is explained in details below.
Operating Environment | Friendly | (4.06) |
Product Range | n/a | |
Market Niche | Very Narrow | (1.35) |
Company Background | Average | (2.69) |
Customer Support | Poor | (1.92) |
Customer Sentiment | n/a | |
Transparency | Average | (3.39) |
Overall Rating | Poor | (1.85) |
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W-HA is neither registered with the Autorite Des Marches Financiers (AMF) as a digital asset service provider, nor offers any crypto assets services.
DASP registration is mandatory to provide: 1. digital asset custody; and/or 2. buying or selling digital assets in a currency that is legal tender; and/or 3. trading of digital assets against other digital assets ; and/or 4. operation of a trading platform for digital assets.
W-HA SA is not registered with the AMF as a digital asset service provider.
W-HA do not offer crypto assets services.
W-HA SA is authorized by the Banque de France as a e-money institution (reference number 10595) for issuance of electronic money, distribution and redemption of electronic money, execution of payment transactions on a payment account (not covered by a credit line), issuing payment instruments or acquiring payment transactions; the authorization was granted on 5 September 2013.
W-HA SA is not a bank, it can't collect deposits from public or loan out its clients’ money. Hence, it does not have to participate in deposit guarantee schemes. However, W-HA is required to safeguard its customers’ money.
Due to EEA passport rules W-HA SA, can conduct its activities in any of the 30 EEA member states.
W-HA SA is a SWIFT member and a SEPA (SCT, SDD, SDD B2B) scheme participant.
W-HA has profiles on the following social networks: