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EU Seeks to Transfer Crypto Oversight to Bloc's Securities and Markets Authority

The European Commission wants to get rid of fragmentation from differing supervisory approaches in member states.

By Jamie Crawley|Edited by Sheldon Reback
Dec 5, 2025, 11:25 a.m.
The executive arm of the EU plans to transfer supervision of cryptocurrency companies to the bloc's markets regulator. (Christian Lue / Unsplash / Modified by CoinDesk)

What to know:

  • The executive arm of the European Union plans to transfer supervision of cryptocurrency companies to the bloc's markets regulator as part of a set of measures to "fully integrate" financial markets.
  • Bringing crypto regulation under the purview of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will "make supervision more effective and conducive to cross-border activities," the European Commission said.
  • Regulators in some individual countries have raised concerns about MiCA implementation and asked ESMA to take tighter control.

The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), proposed ending individual countries' supervision of cryptocurrency companies and transferring the responsibility to the bloc's markets regulator as part of measures to "fully integrate" EU financial markets.

The commission wants to address the discrepancies that result from differing supervisory approaches among the 27 member states and transfer oversight to European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), it said in a Thursday statement

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The proposals need to be negotiated with and approved by the European Parliament and European Council.

The move follows reports of concerns that despite the aim of achieving a unified crypto regulatory environment under the the Markets in Crypto-Asset (MiCA) regulation, individual countries were diverging too much for ESMA's liking. Uniting oversight of crypto and other financial services under one body will be more effective, it said.

"EU financial markets remain significantly fragmented, small and lack competitiveness, missing out on potential economies of scale and efficiency gains," the commission said.

Regulators in individual countries, such as France's AMF, Austria's FMA and Italy's Consob, raised concerns and asked ESMA to take tighter control of MiCA in September.

ESMA is the EU's closest equivalent to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S. However, ESMA's role is more one of coordination rather than the direct supervision wielded by the SEC. The move to integrate financial markets and transfer "direct supervisory competences" might be seen as a step toward making the regulator closer to an EU SEC equivalent.

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