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Germany widened its lead in the number of providers licensed under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), with six of its cooperative banks added in the latest register update.The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) <a href="https://www.esma.europa.eu/esmas-activities/digital-finance-and-innovation/markets-crypto-assets-regulation-mica" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">updated</a> its MiCA register on Friday, bringing the number of authorized crypto asset service providers (CASPs) to 331.Compared with an <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/slovenia-eu-mica-stablecoin-register-dinaro" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">update from Aug. 12</a>, the six additions were all German cooperative banks: Raiffeisenbank Aidlingen, Ihre Volksbank, VR-Bank Mittelfranken Mitte, Volksbank Euskirchen, VR Bank Ried-Überwald and Volksbank Backnang.Germany now accounts for 79 CASPs, ahead of France with 35 and the Netherlands with 29. Germany’s total has grown from 57 in late June, when the <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/mica-licenses-cluster-germany-total-reach-244" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">country already led MiCA authorizations</a>, according to ESMA data previously reviewed by Cointelegraph.Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) told Cointelegraph in June that the country’s high number of MiCA authorizations partly reflects its large financial sector and the number of credit institutions eligible to offer crypto services. BaFin also pointed to Germany’s pre-existing national licensing regime, which gave some CASPs access to simplified authorization procedures during the transition to MiCA.ESMA’s asset-referenced token (ART), electronic money token (EMT) and non-compliant entity datasets were unchanged. The ART register remained empty, the EMT register held 43 entries, and the non-compliant entity list remained at 167.Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitpanda-fined-austrian-published-mica-penalty" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitpanda fined in Austria’s first published MiCA penalty</a>

Germany widens MiCA lead as latest EU register update adds 6 banks

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