- European authorities added 14 crypto companies to the MiCA framework register in the second post-deadline update, bringing the total number of licensed CASPs to 294.
- New entries include Ripple Payments Europe, Portugal-based Bison Bank, Croatia’s state-owned bank HPB, and several German cooperative banks.
- No changes occurred to the EMT or ART registers, with the ART register still listing zero approved issuers.
- Two entities were added to the non-compliant register following enforcement actions by Italy‘s CONSOB regulator.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) added 14 crypto companies to the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework register on Thursday, signaling a slower licensing pace after an initial surge. The regulator updated its interim register, bringing the total number of licensed crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) to 294.
New entries include Ripple Payments Europe, the European payments arm of blockchain company Ripple, as well as Portugal-based Bison Bank and Croatia’s state-owned bank, Hrvatska poštanska banka (HPB). The update follows ESMA’s previous register expansion on July 3, when the regulator added 37 CASPs in the first major post-deadline update after MiCA’s transitional period ended.
Several newly added companies highlight the continued entry of traditional financial institutions into Europe’s regulated crypto market. In addition to Bison Bank and HPB, the MiCA register added two cooperative banks from Germany, namely Volksbank Schwarzwald-Donau-Neckar and Raiffeisenbank Auerbach-Freihung.
The update also included Liechtenstein-based Kaiser Partner Privatbank, expanding the presence of private banking groups offering regulated crypto services under MiCA. The register counts dozens of traditional finance institutions, including Spain‘s BBVA and CaixaBank, Germany’s Commerzbank, France’s CACEIS Bank and Standard Chartered Luxembourg.
ESMA reported no changes to its registers for electronic money tokens (EMTs) or asset-referenced tokens (ARTs). As of the latest update, the EMT register counted 21 unique issuers, while the ART register continued to list no approved issuers.
The regulator also added two entities to its non-compliant register following actions by Italy’s securities regulator, CONSOB. The new additions were Reversal Investment Group and Kortex, bringing the total number of entries on the non-compliant list to 164, including crypto exchange MEXC.
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