EU · Jurisdiction
France
- verified items
- 1
- tracked initiatives
- 2
- banks with licence / notification
- 0
- upcoming dated deadlines
- 0
What banks are doing (observed)
Observed in verified tracker records — what banks in this market have verifiably been authorised for or launched. Not legal advice; open each source for scope.
Custody & trading
Groupe BPCE (Hexarq), bunq
Key rules & official statements
Verbatim from regulator, central bank and standard-setter sources (Tier 1). Quotes are string-matched against the live page before every deploy.
- T1RegulatorEUEBA classifies USDC as the first significant e-money token in the EU
“There are currently 45 EMTs in the European Union, which have been notified under MiCA, and USDC is the first one to be classified as being significant.”
European Banking Authority (opens source in new tab) · Supervisory decision
Deadlines & key dates
Dates are quoted from the official text; undated rules are shown as stated. All deadlines
No dated deadline in our verified data.
Licensed / notified banks
Banks whose initiative carries a regulator record (authorisation) or a MiCA Art. 60 notification in our tracker.
None in our verified data.
Tracked bank initiatives
Groupe BPCE Hexarq retail crypto investment and custody (Banque Populaire, Caisse d'Epargne)
UnknownLive — commercial, within explicit scopeLive — commercial, within explicit scope
bunq Crypto in-app crypto trading (EEA)
UnknownLive — commercial, within explicit scopeLive — commercial, within explicit scope
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