[Digital Today reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) added 14 crypto asset service providers (CASPs) to the MiCA register. The total number of registered operators rose to 294.

Cointelegraph reported on Thursday that the update was the second to the register since the end of MiCA’s transition period.

The previous update on July 3 added 37 CASPs, but this time 14 were registered. Cointelegraph reported that the pace of licence expansion appears to be slowing after the initial surge.

Newly registered firms included Ripple’s Europe payments unit, Ripple Payments Europe. Portugal’s Bison Bank and Croatia’s state-owned Hrvatska Postanska Banka (HPB) were also added. In Germany, two cooperative banks were added: Volksbank Schwarzwald-Donau-Neckar and Raiffeisenbank Auerbach-Freihung. Liechtenstein’s Kaiser Partner Privatbank was also included.

Traditional financial institutions have also been steadily increasing in the MiCA register. Spain’s BBVA and CaixaBank, Germany’s Commerzbank, France’s CACEIS Bank and Luxembourg’s Standard Chartered are currently registered as well.