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US-FL: Industry Structure & Commercial Dynamics

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Florida's payments/fintech industry is structured around a Miami-centred hub of private, often venture-backed remittance and crypto-payments firms operating alongside a base of 663 OFR-licensed money-services businesses, with large listed money-transfer operators and card networks also present.

Standing sub-brief · as of 5 July 2026106 words · last cycle 2026-07-05

Industry Structure & Commercial Dynamics

Florida's non-bank payments industry is substantial in scale: the Office of Financial Regulation licensed 663 money services businesses operating 42,846 authorised locations and branches as of January 2025. This licensed base underpins the corridor and remittance activity tracked elsewhere in this brief and provides the structural backdrop against which the new stablecoin-issuer and VC-kiosk regimes will be layered.

Outlook

No material change to Florida's MSB market-structure count was identified this cycle beyond the January 2025 baseline figure. Watch for whether the stablecoin-issuer licensing pathway, once substantive requirements take effect in October 2026, expands the licensed population beyond the existing 663-MSB base.

no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief

Sources and findings (4 unique sources · R-3/R-4)
  1. [W6-E1] T1 Derived: Confirmed in_forcehttps://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/198/Analyses/2026s00198.rc.PDF re-verified

    <cite index="42-6">As of January 2025, there were 663 money services businesses licensed by OFR, with an additional 42,846 authorized locations and branches</cite>.

  2. [W6-E2] T2 Derived: Confirmed in_forcehttps://thedialogue.org/blogs/2025/04/the-state-of-the-remittance-industry-and-an-outlook-for-2025 re-verified

    <cite index="77-10,77-11">Ten firms manage approximately 80 percent of US-Latin America/Caribbean remittance flows, including Western Union, PayPal/Xoom, Viamericas, Remitly, MoneyGram, Ria, and Miami-based Intermex</cite>.

  3. [W6-E3] T4 Derived: Uncertain in_forcehttps://apidots.com/blog/florida-fintech-growth/ re-verified

    <cite index="55-1">Florida Funders, SoftBank's Miami Initiative, and other VC groups are cited as playing pivotal roles in building the state's fintech ecosystem</cite>, with Miami gaining a reputation as a fintech and crypto hub.

  4. [W6-E4] T4 Derived: Uncertain in_forcehttps://builtin.com/companies/location/miami/type/fintech-companies re-verified

    Miami hosts a dense private-company payments/fintech cluster (e.g. CashQ push-payments platform, blockchain/staking infrastructure firms, Web3 onboarding providers) alongside global card-network presence, illustrating a private-company-heavy market structure that counters big-brand/listed-company bias in coverage.