Wirex is the latest crypto company to reassess its plans for Ireland as the industry races to get approvals for new European regulations. The British crypto payments and card company, backed by Japan’s SBI, has shelved its Irish corporate presence by liquidating its two companies here. Instead, the company is pursuing its EU-wide licence in Italy. The company set up its first company in Ireland six years ago and indicated plans to hire for an EU base in Dublin. Now the companies – Wirex Ireland Ltd and Wirex Europe Ltd – are being wound up voluntarily with Flavien Keily at…

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