MiCA — CASP authorisation
European Union regime for crypto services. National competent authority + ESMA issues the authorisation. Typical lead time is 6–12 mo. Tags on company profiles are checked against public registers before they publish.
81 companies in the directory hold MiCA — CASP authorisation, with holders concentrated in United States, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Australia, Cayman Islands, Denmark, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Seychelles, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. It permits custody, exchange, transfer, execution, advice and placement, passportable across the EEA. Typical lead time is 6–12 mo.
What a MiCA CASP authorisation actually signals
MiCA CASP is the activity licence for custody, exchange and transfer — not for issuing a token. Buyers evaluating a provider for euro stablecoin access need EMT on the register, not CASP alone.
81 companies in this directory hold CASP authorisation, concentrated in United States, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Australia, Cayman Islands, Denmark, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Seychelles, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Each tag is checked against the issuing regulator's public register before it publishes.
81 companies hold CASP and a separate set holds EMT — the two permissions are not interchangeable, and marketing that blurs them is the most common compliance miss on provider profiles.
What the authorisation does and does not permit
Read against EMT, which is routinely confused with it.
The authorisation sequence
6–12 mo in practice. Custody and exchange permissions are assessed separately from issuance.
MiCA CASP requires a legal entity in an EU member state with adequate governance and control functions.
Custody, exchange, transfer, advice and placement are separate permissions — file only what you will operate.
The home regulator publishes the authorisation before passporting across the EEA.
Transaction, custody and incident reporting continues after authorisation.
MiCA authorisation, answered
From real buyer questions. Marked up as FAQPage.
Everyone reads MiCA as a single authorisation. It is two: CASP covers custody, exchange and transfer, EMT covers issuing the token. 81 companies hold CASP and 0 hold EMT, and a provider with only CASP cannot issue you a euro token no matter what its marketing implies. Check which one the register actually shows.