Credit institutions intending:
- to issue asset-referenced tokens or e-money tokens and make them available to the public or to admit them to trading, or
- to operate as crypto-asset service providers,
should notify their intention to the Bank of Greece (Banking Supervision Directorate) in accordance with the procedure set out in Articles 17, 48 and 60 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114.
Electronic money institutions intending:
- to issue asset-referenced tokens or e-money tokens and make them available to the public or to admit them to trading, or
- to operate as crypto-asset service providers, either under Article 60(4) of the Regulation within their existing authorisation or more broadly upon obtaining authorisation,
should notify their intention to the Bank of Greece (Payment and Electronic Money Institutions Supervision Division of the Supervised Institutions Inspection Directorate) in accordance with the procedure set out in Articles 18, 48, 60 and 62.
Payment institutions intending:
- to issue asset-referenced tokens and to make them available to the public or to admit them to trading, or
- to obtain authorisation as crypto-asset service providers,
should notify their intention to the Bank of Greece (Payment and Electronic Money Institutions Supervision Division of the Supervised Institutions Inspection Directorate) in accordance with the procedure set out in Articles 18 and 62.
Entities intending to operate as Crypto-Asset Service Providers and planning to transact e-money tokens under the MiCAR regime, in the context of the services of (1) custody and administration of crypto-assets on behalf of clients and (2) transfer of crypto-assets on behalf of clients, are invited to contact the Payment and Electronic Money Institutions Supervision Division, taking into account the published opinion of the European Banking Authority on the interaction between the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and MiCAR.