Every fortnight we re-verify the matrix against primary sources. In the last 14 days that logged 107 substantive updates across 46 jurisdictions. Gated figures are named here rather than shown; the revised values, with sources and verification dates, are on each jurisdiction page.
ADGM (Abu Dhabi)
- Recent changes: June 10, 2025: FSRA implemented major amendments, shifted from FSRA pre-approval for Virtual Assets to a notification-based.... View the entry.
Austria
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: Austria set 30 June 2026 as the end of its transitional regime (shorter runway than the EU default 1 July 2026 deadline).... View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Belgium
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: The Act of 11 December 2025 (Belgium's MiCA implementing law) was the single biggest development: it was published 24 December.... View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Bermuda
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: In January 2026, at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, the Government of Bermuda announced a partnership with Circle and.... View the entry.
British Virgin Islands (BVI)
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
Bulgaria
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): Bulgaria adopted the euro on 1 January 2026 at the fixed rate of EUR 1 to BGN 1.95583, with institutional capital converting.... View the entry.
Canada
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
Cayman Islands
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
Croatia
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- The emis authorised entry (e-money) was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
- (E-money) Hrvatski Telekom converted from electronic money institution to payment institution status on 5 May 2026, leaving three e-money institutions on the Croatian National Bank's register. Effective 2026-05-05.
Cyprus
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): The Central Bank of Cyprus issued new 2025 EMI authorisation, governance and suitability directives. View the entry.
Czechia
- The ongoing cost entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Denmark
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
El Salvador
- The application cost entry was updated. View the entry.
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- The key restrictions entry was updated. View the entry.
- The ongoing cost entry was updated. View the entry.
Estonia
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Finland
- Recent changes (e-money): FIN-FSA introduced a new 2026 payment-institution application model and fee schedule. View the entry.
France
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Germany
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: FinmadiG + KMAG in force 27 Dec 2024. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Gibraltar
- The key restrictions entry was updated. View the entry.
- Licence type: GFSC permission under the Financial Services (DLT Providers and VAA Providers) Regulations 2020. View the entry.
- Recent changes: LN 2025/254 expanded the 2020 Regulations to DLT Providers and VAA Providers from 27 October 2025, expressly capturing.... View the entry.
- The application cost entry (e-money) was updated. View the entry.
- The capital requirement entry (e-money) was updated. View the entry.
- Licence type (e-money): Authorised electronic money institution or registered electronic money institution under the Financial Services (Electronic.... View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): LN 2026/053 took effect on 26 March 2026 and requires e-money institutions to notify the GFSC at least 30 days before.... View the entry.
Greece
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Guernsey
- The application cost entry was updated. View the entry.
- The key restrictions entry was updated. View the entry.
- The ongoing cost entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: On 24 July 2026 the GFSC published its Supporting Growth with Digital Finance feedback paper. View the entry.
- The GFSC reduced its virtual asset service provider application and annual fees with effect from 1 January 2026, under the 2026 fee decision published in December 2025. Effective 2026-01-01.
Hong Kong
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: SFC ASPIRe roadmap (19 Feb 2025). View the entry.
Hungary
- The key restrictions entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: Act XXXVIII of 2026 repealed Hungary's separate SZTFH crypto-asset conversion validation scheme. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Iceland
- The difficulty rating entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): Iceland's EEA implementation timing also depends on incorporation through the EEA Agreement. View the entry.
Indonesia
- Recent changes: 10 January 2025: regulatory authority formally transferred from Bappebti to OJK. View the entry.
Ireland
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Italy
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Japan
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- The key restrictions entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: The FIEA and Payment Services Act amendment was promulgated on 23 July 2026. View the entry.
- Japan's Diet enacted the FIEA amendment on 15 July 2026, moving crypto-asset regulation from the Payment Services Act into the securities framework. Tougher penalties for unregistered operators take effect on 12 August 2026, with the core reclassification targeted for fiscal year 2027. Effective 2026-07-15.
Latvia
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- The timeline to authorisation entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): Latvijas Banka continued granting new EMI licences during 2025 and 2026. View the entry.
Liechtenstein
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: Bank Frick received MiCAR authorisation from FMA Liechtenstein on 20 January 2026, one of the first in the country under the.... View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): Liechtenstein's EEA implementation timing also depends on incorporation through the EEA Agreement. View the entry.
Lithuania
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Luxembourg
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Malta
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Mexico
- Recent changes: Major AML Law reform enacted 16 Jul 2025 (VASPs serving Mexican residents in scope. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): Continuing CNBV and Banxico secondary rules. View the entry.
Netherlands
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Norway
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- The ongoing cost entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: AK Jensen Norway AS became Norway's first MiCA-authorised firm (Article 60 route), effective 2 February 2026. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): Norway's EEA implementation timing also depends on incorporation through the EEA Agreement. View the entry.
Poland
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Portugal
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
Romania
- Recent changes (e-money): Romania's BNR remains the e-money competent authority, separate from ASF's MiCA supervision. View the entry.
Slovakia
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
- The National Bank of Slovakia confirmed on 29 July 2026 that six licensed crypto-asset service providers are headquartered in Slovakia, its first published national count under MiCA. Effective 2026-07-29.
Slovenia
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
South Korea
- Recent changes: The 20 Aug 2026 tightening is now identifiable as Act No. View the entry.
Spain
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): Spain will need to align its separate payment-institution and e-money statutes with the single PSD3 framework. View the entry.
- The CNMV authorised three further Spain-domiciled crypto-asset service providers between 30 June and 10 July 2026: Minos Global, Prosegur Custodia de Activos Digitales and Iqana Technologies, taking the home-authorised total to 13. Effective 2026-07-10.
Sweden
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- The ongoing cost entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): PSD3 and the PSR merge payment-institution and EMI authorisation into one payment-institution category able to issue e-money. View the entry.
United Arab Emirates (Dubai - VARA)
- The mica casps approved entry was updated. View the entry.
- Recent changes: 'Rulebook 2.0' reissued all twelve rulebooks effective 19 Jun 2025 (mandatory Travel Rule, wind-down plans, TLPT, a new VA.... View the entry.
United Kingdom
- Application cost: FCA application fee GBP 11,260 (Category 6, fee-block G23, non-refundable) plus typically GBP 50k-150k in professional fees. View the entry.
- Ongoing cost: Annual FCA periodic fee under fee-block G.30 for 2026/27: minimum GBP 2,251 plus GBP 6.01 per GBP 1,000 of cryptoasset income.... View the entry.
- Recent changes (e-money): FCA safeguarding reform live from 7 May 2026 (first monthly REP027 return fell due 21 July 2026). View the entry.
United States
- Recent changes: The GENIUS Act's 18 July 2026 deadline for federal implementing rules passed with no agency having finalised a rule: the OCC.... View the entry.
- The GENIUS Act's statutory deadline for federal stablecoin implementing rules passed on 18 July 2026 with no agency having finalised a rule; the Act's backstop effective date of 18 January 2027 stands. Effective 2026-07-18.
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