📰 MiCA Licensing Faces Delays as ESMA Adds 14 CASPs to Register
🗓️ Jul 18 2026 04:55 UTC
European regulators have added 14 more crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) to the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework register, according to an ESMA update released on Thursday. The latest expansion lifts the total number of licensed CASPs to 294 and suggests that the po...
➤ European regulators have added 14 more crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) to the MiCA framework register, bringing the total to 294.
➤ Traditional financial institutions, including banks like Ripple Payments Europe, Bison Bank, and Hrvatska poštanska banka, are increasingly formalizing their crypto services under MiCA.
➤ While CASP licensing continues, approvals for electronic money tokens (EMTs) and asset-referenced tokens (ARTs) remain stalled, indicating a slower pace for token issuance compared to service provider authorization.
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