PSAV Registration and Virtual Assets in Argentina

When This Service May Fit Your Project

• a.Your business exchanges, transfers or holds virtual assets for customers, or operates a trading platform.
• b.You serve Argentine customers from abroad and need to determine whether the framework reaches your operation.
• c.Your company is preparing a PSAV registration filing and needs the corporate, documentary and compliance work organised.
• d.Your product combines virtual assets with payments, lending, tokenization or investment features and you need the frameworks assessed together.

We begin with the service model: which virtual-asset services are provided, to whom, and how assets and funds are held and moved. The registration analysis follows from those services.

PSAV Registration and Compliance: Scope of Work

Assessing the service model

Review the intended activities against the CNV's PSAV framework and identify whether registration applies, in which categories, and which obligations attach. See the official CNV registration procedure.

Preparing the structure

Define the appropriate vehicle for the Argentine operation, local or foreign registered as applicable, and coordinate entity work as a separately defined engagement where needed: see our company formation service.

Preparing and filing the registration

Organise the documents, draft the legal components within scope and assist with the submission and with responses to the regulator's observations.

Coordinating compliance obligations

Assess the CNV requirements and the UIF anti-money laundering work relevant to the service model. Coordinate the legal work on customer terms, custody arrangements and reporting with the financial and technology information supplied by your team or independent providers, within the agreed scope.

The proposal identifies the work JFC will handle, the deliverables and the participation needed from your team or other providers. For the full regulatory background, our Argentina Crypto License guide covers the framework in depth.

What the Engagement Delivers

Depending on the agreed stages, the deliverables may include:

• a.A written assessment of whether and how the intended services fall under the PSAV framework, and the questions to resolve before filing.
• b.A registration plan identifying categories, documents, responsibilities and dependencies.
• c.The legal and compliance documents within scope, drafted or adapted for the filing.
• d.Assistance with the submission and with regulator queries, where included in the engagement.

The proposal specifies which stages are included and which are handled separately, including continuing compliance support after registration.

What We Need to Understand Your Project

Start with a description of the services, the customers and countries involved, and how virtual assets and funds are received, held and delivered. It also helps to know whether you operate under authorisations in other jurisdictions and whether you already have an Argentine entity.

Existing policies, corporate documents and technical materials can be reviewed later, once the required work is defined.

Planning the Registration

Entity work, documentation, the filing and the regulator's review have different dependencies. We distinguish preparation, submission and completion of each step: submitting an application is not the same as obtaining the registration, and any activity requiring prior registration must meet that requirement before it begins in Argentina. Any estimated timeline identifies its starting point, assumptions and scope.

The Team and Other Participants

JFC's team coordinates the legal work included in the engagement. The proposal identifies the responsible professional and how communication will be handled. Accounting, audit, technology and banking work may involve your team or independent providers; we define those responsibilities alongside the legal work. You can also meet our team.

Questions Before Getting Started

Do we need to know whether we are a PSAV before contacting you?

No. Describe the services and their flows. Assessing whether the framework reaches your model is part of the work we can agree with you.

We serve Argentine users from abroad. Does the framework reach us?

It can, depending on the services and how they are directed to the Argentine market. Describe your customers and channels so we can identify the questions to address in the engagement.

Can our licenses from other countries be used?

Existing authorisations, policies and operating experience are useful inputs to the assessment. We review their relevance to the Argentine filing and identify the local requirements, documentation and adaptations needed.

Our product combines crypto and payments. How is that assessed?

The activities are reviewed separately and in combination: they may involve more than one framework and more than one entity. See fintech market entry for the combined analysis.

What happens after registration?

Registration brings continuing obligations. The proposal specifies whether post-registration compliance support is included or scoped as a separate stage.

Does this service cover tokenization or investment features?

We assess the token's rights, the proposed offering and the platform's role. Where relevant, the scope includes a separate securities or capital-markets analysis alongside the PSAV work.

For the regulatory background, see Argentina Crypto License and Fintech Regulation in Argentina.