EU MiCA EMT Issuers Rise to 42 Following Bridge Registration

Bridge joins EU MiCA registry, lifting authorized EMT issuers to 42. CASP count also hits 324 with three new German approvals.

Woofun AI reports that Bridge Building, the Luxembourg subsidiary of Stripe's stablecoin infrastructure arm, has been officially registered under the EU's MiCA framework. This inclusion increases the total number of authorized Electronic Money Token (EMT) issuers in the EU to 42. Bridge previously secured Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) status and an EMI license from the CSSF on July 2. Mai Leduc Blount, head of products at Bridge, stated that these regulatory clearances allow EU firms to build compliant stablecoin and payment solutions.

Concurrently, three German entities received CASP approval, raising the aggregate count of authorized CASPs in the EU to 324.