Ripple Secures Full CASP License in Luxembourg Under MiCA

On July 6, 2026, Ripple announced it had received a full Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSSF, under the EU's MiCA framework, according to the company's official release.

This is an upgrade from a preliminary approval: on June 23, 2026, just two weeks earlier, Ripple had already received a so-called "Green Light Letter" from the same regulator — an interim status confirming the company broadly meets requirements, but not yet full authorization to operate. A full license means every final condition has been met, CoinDesk reports.

Why it matters that this is specifically a MiCA license: it's a single rulebook for crypto companies across the entire EU. Its key feature is "passporting" — once a company is licensed in one EU country (Luxembourg, in this case), it automatically gains the right to offer the same services across all 30 countries of the European Economic Area, without filing a separate application in each one.

What this means in practice: combined with Ripple's existing EMI (Electronic Money Institution) license, European banks, fintechs, and corporates can now plug into Ripple's full payments infrastructure — including the RLUSD stablecoin, whose growth on the XRP Ledger we covered earlier — through a single integration instead of several separate ones.

That makes Ripple one of a small number of crypto companies with full MiCA authorization across two license types at once, and its global portfolio now counts more than 75 regulatory licenses, crypto.news notes.

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