What to do
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
Use the licence category that answers your question
The Bank of Thailand says foreign-exchange transactions should be conducted with people or businesses granted the relevant foreign-exchange licence. For an exchange booth that buys or sells physical foreign currency notes, the useful category is the authorized money changer. BOT defines that category narrowly as a licensed non-bank company buying and selling foreign banknotes.
Keep that scope in view. A money-changer listing is not evidence that the same business may offer remittance, cryptocurrency, every kind of foreign-exchange service or any service beyond the licence category shown. Verify the service you actually plan to use instead of extending one authorization to a different product.
Start from the current BOT lookup
On the Bank of Thailand's authorized-money-changer page, open section 7, the list of names and locations. The PDF linked on 14 September 2026 is headed as of 31 July 2026. Check the list's own date each time; a newly opened page does not turn a dated register into a live status check.
Compare the exact legal name, licence number and any listed office information. If the register is too old to settle the current status or branch relationship, confirm with BOT. Similar English spellings, shared brand words and familiar signage do not establish an exact match.
Match the entity to the place in front of you
Compare the displayed legal entity with the name presented at the booth or counter. When branch or address information is available, check that as well. A listed company name on its own does not establish that every shop using a similar name, logo or color scheme belongs to that company.
If you cannot connect the exact storefront to the exact official entry, keep the result unresolved. Ask the business for the legal name or branch information needed to perform the match, then repeat the official lookup. Do not substitute confidence in the brand for a matching record.
Read a positive result narrowly
A matching entry supports the listed banknote-changing authorization as of the register date. It does not confirm subsequent licence changes, every branch, today's opening hours, currency stock, the offered rate or acceptance of a particular note or transaction.
Those practical details have to be checked separately at the time of the exchange. Keep any rate comparison separate from the licence check: a favorable rate is not proof of authorization, and authorization is not a promise that one rate is better than another.
Treat missing or unclear matches as unresolved
No clear match does not explain the reason. The conclusion is only that you have not verified the exact entity through the current authorized-money-changer source. Do not turn an absent or ambiguous result into a claim about the business that the registry itself does not make.
Repeat the search using the exact legal name supplied by the business. If the entity, branch relationship or licence category still cannot be matched, do not describe the booth as BOT-authorized on the strength of signage, a receipt, a review or another person's past transaction.
Dates, responsibility & checking method
Evidence
Sources
3 dated records support the material facts on this page.
- Foreign Exchange Business (opens in a new tab)
Bank of Thailandofficial governmentChecked
- List and head-office locations of authorized money changers (opens in a new tab)
Bank of Thailandprimary documentChecked