{"id":658951,"date":"2026-09-18T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/banks-double-on-eu-mica-crypto-provider-list-as-share-hits-23\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:52:45","slug":"banks-double-on-eu-mica-crypto-provider-list-as-share-hits-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/banks-double-on-eu-mica-crypto-provider-list-as-share-hits-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks double on EU MiCA crypto provider list as share hits 23%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/09\/01M2T9WY6ZEBREY64C7KQFFW2D\/2222222.png\" alt=\"Banks double on EU MiCA crypto provider list as share hits 23%\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Banks now represent nearly one in four providers on ESMA\u2019s MiCA register after roughly doubling their presence since late June.<\/p>\n<p>Banks are rapidly expanding their presence in Europe\u2019s regulated crypto market, with traditional lenders now accounting for nearly one in four providers listed under the European Union\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework (MiCA).<\/p>\n<p>The number of banks on the EU\u2019s MiCA crypto provider list doubled to about 80 from roughly 40 between June 26 and Sept. 16, according to a Cointelegraph analysis of MiCA register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esma.europa.eu\/esmas-activities\/digital-finance-and-innovation\/markets-crypto-assets-regulation-mica\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">data<\/a> from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).<\/p>\n<p>The overall number of listed crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) rose from 243 to 349 over the period, but non-bank providers lost ground in relative terms, with their share falling from about 84% to 77%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/banks-double-eu-mica-crypto-register-esma\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banks now represent nearly one in four providers on ESMA\u2019s MiCA register after roughly doubling their presence since late June. Banks are rapidly expanding their presence in Europe\u2019s regulated crypto market, with traditional lenders now accounting for nearly one in four providers listed under the European Union\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework (MiCA). The number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-658951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}