French regulator says some crypto firms unresponsive as EU licence deadline approaches
By Elizabeth Howcroft
PARIS, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Nearly a third of crypto companies without an EU licence in France are still to tell the regulator whether they intend to get the licence required under new EU rules or will cease operating by July, the country’s markets regulator warned on Tuesday.
Under the European Union’s crypto rules, MiCA, crypto companies must receive licences from national regulators in order to be able to operate across the bloc.
Those rules, a landmark regulatory package, came into force last year to bring crypto assets under formal regulation.
Stephane Pontoizeau, executive director of the market intermediaries and market infrastructures supervision directorate at the AMF, told…
