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Odaily News: The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated its Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) registration list on July 31, adding 12 new companies. This marks the fourth update since the July 1 transition deadline, bringing the total number of authorized Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASPs) under MiCA to 321. The newly added entities include three German cooperative banks—Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Oberbayern Südost, VR Bank Schleswig-Holstein Mitte, and VR-Bank Landau-Mengkofen—as well as Spain's Basque Pay and Fintech Payments, and France's Finary, Woorton, Blockchain Process Security, and Shares Financial Assets. ESMA has also added Cervo Rendisco, Flandenzo, and Corona Fondenza to its list of non-compliant entities, with the relevant flags coming from Italy's securities regulator, the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB). The non-compliant entities list currently contains 167 entries. This update did not involve any other changes to MiCA-related registration lists. The number of authorized Electronic Money Token (EMT) issuers remains at 41, while the registration list for Asset-Referenced Token (ART) issuers currently has no entities.
the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated the provisional MiCA registry on Friday, adding 15 licensed crypto asset service providers (CASPs), bringing the total number to 309. The newly added institutions include BNY SA/NV, the Belgian subsidiary of US banking giant BNY Mellon. This latest batch includes four banking institutions, three of which are from Germany, alongside digital asset platforms such as BitPay, Coinify, and Bleap. Germany and Denmark each added three CASPs, Bulgaria and Latvia each added two, while Belgium, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, and the Netherlands each added one. ESMA stated that this update did not alter other MiCA-related registries, including those for asset-referenced tokens (ARTs), e-money tokens (EMTs), authorized issuers of crypto assets, and the list of non-compliant entities. Following the previous transitional deadline on July 1, ESMA’s second update had added 14 CASPs, including Ripple Payments Europe.