How We Review Crypto Exchanges for Morocco

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In short

Seven criteria, with regulatory status and access to dirhams counting most.
Data comes from live P2P snapshots, official legal pages and, when nothing else exists, aggregators that we label as such.
No partnerships and no paid placements. CTA buttons are editorial picks.
Errors go to contact@crypto-morocco.com, and corrections are dated on the page.

What we score

We built our grid around one question: what does a person living in Morocco actually need from an exchange? A trader in London cares about futures depth. A nurse in Meknès who wants to buy 2,000 dirhams of USDT cares about whether her bank appears in P2P ads, and about what happens if her account is frozen. Our criteria follow that second person.

Criterion	Priority	What we look at
Regulatory status	High	Licences abroad, register entries, enforcement history
Access to dirhams	High	MAD P2P depth, banks and cash networks accepted
Fees and real cost	Medium	Spot fees, P2P premium, withdrawal costs
Security	Medium	Incidents, proof of reserves, account protections
P2P liquidity and safety	Medium	Ad counts, spreads, escrow and dispute rules
Support in Arabic and French	Medium	Interface and help channels in AR/FR
Transparency	Lower	Published terms, fee pages, ownership

Regulatory status carries the most weight because no exchange holds a Moroccan licence. The Office des Changes position of 2017 still applies, and draft law 42.25 has not been adopted. So we look at what each platform holds elsewhere, such as a MiCA authorisation, a Dubai VARA licence or US registrations, and at what it has been fined or prosecuted for. A guilty plea or a regulator ban costs points even when the exchange works well day to day. Our legal guide explains the Moroccan context.

Access to dirhams measures how easily a resident can turn MAD into crypto and back. We count ads, note which banks and cash networks appear, such as Attijariwafa, CIH, Cash Plus or Al Barid Bank, and check the price gap against the dollar rate. The P2P guide explains how that market works.

How we collect data

We use three kinds of sources, and we say which one each figure comes from.

Live snapshots. For P2P we query the public order books of the exchanges on a given date and record ad counts, best prices and payment methods. The date of the snapshot appears next to the figures.
Official pages. For licences, fees and supported countries we go to the exchange’s own legal and fee pages, to regulators’ registers and press releases, and to court documents. These carry a green source chip.
Aggregators and press. When an official source is missing or will not load, we use comparison sites, register trackers or news reports, and mark them with a yellow chip. If a fact rests on a single unofficial source, we say so in the text.

We never invent a missing figure. If we could not confirm something, the page says “we could not confirm” or leaves it out. We do not claim a crypto tax rate in Morocco, because the tax administration has not published one.

How often we update

Monthly: P2P snapshots, fees and our exchange ranking.
Quarterly: licences, register entries and the status of Moroccan legislation.
Within days: after a hack, a regulator decision, a court case or a change in Moroccan rules.

Each page shows the date of its last check in the header line.

Independence

crypto-morocco.com is an independent publication. We have no partnership, sponsorship or affiliate agreement with CEX.IO, Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, KuCoin or any other company we cover, and no exchange pays for its position in our rankings. The call-to-action buttons on our pages lead to platforms we choose on editorial grounds; they are not adverts and they earn us nothing. You can see the result in our ranking of exchanges for Morocco.

We also do not give personal investment advice. A score tells you how well a platform serves a user in Morocco, not whether a coin will go up.

Corrections

If you spot an error, an outdated fee or a broken source, write to contact@crypto-morocco.com with the page address and, ideally, a link to the correct source. We check every report. When we correct a fact, we change the page and update its date; for substantive changes we add a short note explaining what changed. You can also reach us through our contact page, and read more about the team on the about page.

FAQ

Do exchanges pay to be reviewed or ranked?

No. We have no partnerships, no affiliate deals and no paid placements with any exchange. The order of our ranking and the scores in our reviews are editorial decisions. The buttons on our pages point to the platforms we pick on editorial grounds.

How often are reviews updated?

We re-check live P2P data and fees at least once a month, and licences and legal status every quarter. When a major event happens, such as a hack, a regulator decision or a change to Moroccan law, we update the page within days.