BNY Mellon’s Belgian unit joins MiCA as ESMA adds 15
ESMA added 15 crypto-asset service providers to its MiCA register, including BNY SA/NV, BNY Mellon’s Belgian subsidiary, bringing the interim total to 309 across the EU.
On Friday, the European Securities and Markets Authority added 15 crypto-asset service providers to its Markets in Crypto-Assets interim register, including BNY SA/NV, the Belgian unit of BNY Mellon. The register now lists 309 licensed crypto-asset service providers across the European Union.
The update is the third batch of post-deadline entries since MiCA’s July 1 transitional cutoff for firms to seek authorisation. ESMA said the new additions include four banking institutions and several digital-asset platforms. Germany and Denmark each accounted for three of the latest entries.
Newly listed organisations include BNY SA/NV; German cooperative banks Spar-und Kreditbank Rheinstetten, VR-Bank Augsburg-Ostallgäu and Raiffeisenbank Falkenstein‑Wörth; and payment and trading platforms such as BitPay and Coinify. Additional registrations came from Bulgaria (Altcoins BG, Digital Assist), Denmark (SafeLynx Technologies, Januar), and Latvia (Bleap, Nodu Digital). Providers were also added in Belgium, Cyprus, Liechtenstein and the Netherlands.
ESMA reported no changes to other MiCA-related registers in this update. There were no new authorised issuers of asset-referenced tokens or e-money tokens and no changes to the list of non-compliant entities.
MiCA requires firms offering crypto services in the EU to hold a licence or operate under a transitional arrangement while national approvals are processed. ESMA’s public register identifies which providers are authorised and the member state where they are licensed.
The latest update follows earlier post-deadline additions, including a previous batch that added 14 firms. Regulators continue to process applications as companies complete national licensing steps and meet MiCA requirements.
Giovanni Cunti, chief executive of Gate Europe, warned that ongoing reporting and governance requirements under MiCA could strain smaller providers’ compliance resources over time.
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