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French Central Bank Head Wants Crypto Licensing Ahead of MiCA Standards: Bloomberg
The current turmoil in the crypto markets shows the need for such requirements as soon as possible, the banking chief said.
Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau is pressing for stricter regulatory requirements for crypto companies in France, according to a report from Bloomberg.
This would be ahead of the European Union’s landmark Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation, which would establish a bloc-wide licensing regime for crypto firms and is scheduled to be voted on in February for implementation in 2024.
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Obtaining a license in France for Digital Asset Service Providers (DASP) is currently optional and no providers currently have one, according to Bloomberg. About 60 firms do have the less stringent “registration” designation from French markets authority AMF.
According to Villeroy, the current turmoil in the crypto market shows the need for a licensing requirement in France.
“All the disorder in 2022 feeds a simple belief: It is desirable for France to move to an obligatory licensing of DASP as soon as possible, rather than just registration,” Villeroy said Thursday in a speech in Paris, according to Bloomberg.
Nelson Wang
Nelson edits features and opinion stories and was previously CoinDesk’s U.S. News Editor for the East Coast. He has also been an editor at Unchained and DL News, and prior to working at CoinDesk, he was the technology stocks editor and consumer stocks editor at TheStreet. He has also held editing positions at Yahoo.com and Condé Nast Portfolio’s website, and was the content director for aMedia, an Asian American media company. Nelson grew up on Long Island, New York and went to Harvard College, earning a degree in Social Studies. He holds BTC, ETH and SOL above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
