MiCA Compliance for Crypto-Asset Service Providers CASPs

Learn MiCA compliance for Crypto-Asset Service Providers with a practical focus on authorisation, governance, customer protection, custody, conflicts of interest, financial crime, market abuse, operational resilience, stablecoins and cross-border services. This online course helps learners understand how CASPs can build compliant operating models, protect clients and meet regulatory expectations across the European Union.

  • 6 hours total
  • Intermediate
  • English
  • Last Updated Recently
Compliant: EU, US, UK, UAE, and FATF
CPD-Certified Course
100% Online
Self-paced

Course Overview

This MiCA Compliance for Crypto-Asset Service Providers CASPs course is designed for compliance officers, risk managers, legal professionals, senior managers and digital asset businesses providing or planning to provide crypto-asset services within the European Union.

The course covers the MiCA regulatory perimeter, CASP authorisation, governance arrangements, prudential controls, client asset protection, conduct requirements, complaints, financial crime, market abuse, operational resilience, stablecoins and cross-border implementation.

MiCA became fully applicable on 30 December 2024, following the earlier application of its asset-referenced token and e-money token provisions on 30 June 2024. The maximum EU transitional period for existing providers ended on 1 July 2026.

Suitable for beginner to intermediate professionals, this online training provides practical knowledge for developing a CASP compliance framework and supporting regulatory readiness.

Requirements

  • No advanced EU regulatory experience required.
  • Suitable for beginner to intermediate learners.
  • Basic knowledge of cryptoassets or compliance is helpful.
  • Open to UK, EU and international learners.
  • Suitable for compliance, legal, risk and management teams.

What You'll Master

  • Identify crypto-asset services within the MiCA framework.
  • Prepare governance and operating controls for CASP authorisation.
  • Apply client protection and service-specific requirements.
  • Manage financial crime, market abuse and operational risks.
  • Assess stablecoin and cross-border compliance responsibilities.
  • Build and maintain a practical MiCA implementation programme.

Why This Course Matters

Understand the MiCA Regulatory Framework

Learn how MiCA creates a harmonised regulatory framework for crypto-assets and crypto-asset services across the EU. Understand how the European framework differs from the developing UK cryptoasset regime.

Prepare for CASP Authorisation

Explore the business plan, governance, management, financial resources, ICT systems and control arrangements that support a CASP authorisation application.

Protect Clients and Their Assets

Understand how conduct standards, custody control s, asset segregation, complaints procedures and clear communications help protect clients.

Manage Financial and Operational Risk

Learn how CASPs address money laundering, market abuse, conflicts of interest, outsourcing, technology failures and business continuity risks.

Operate Across Borders

Understand MiCA passporting, stablecoin restrictions, third-country considerations and the practical steps required to provide services across different EU Member States.

Who Is This Course For?

This course is suitable for:

  • CASP compliance, legal and risk teams
  • Crypto exchanges, brokers and custodians
  • Senior managers and governance professionals
  • Financial crime and market surveillance analysts
  • Consultants supporting European crypto businesses

Please note: This course is suitable for beginner to intermediate learners. Basic knowledge of cryptoassets, compliance, financial services or risk management will be helpful, but advanced legal or technical knowledge is not required.

Career Opportunities

Completing this MiCA Compliance for Crypto-Asset Service Providers CASPs course can support career development across crypto exchanges, custodians, fintech companies, financial institutions, regulatory consultancies and blockchain businesses.

Possible job roles include:

  • MiCA Compliance Analyst
  • CASP Authorisation Associate
  • Crypto Regulatory Affairs Officer
  • Digital Asset Risk Analyst
  • Crypto Financial Crime Analyst
  • Digital Asset Compliance Consultant

Benefits of This Programme

  • Flexible and self-paced online learning
  • Practical focus on CASP compliance
  • Covers authorisation, conduct and governance
  • Explains stablecoin and cross-border requirements
  • Supports MiCA implementation and regulatory readiness

Certification

Once you have successfully completed your course, you will immediately be sent a digital certificate. You can also have your printed certificate delivered by post. All of our courses are fully accredited, providing you with up-to-date skills and knowledge and helping you become more competent and effective in your chosen field.

Assessment

At the end of the course, there will be an online assessment, which you will need to pass to complete the course. Answers are marked instantly and automatically, allowing you to know straight away whether you have passed. If you haven’t passed, there is no limit on the number of times you can take the final exam. All this is included in the one-time fee you paid for the course itself.

Course Curriculum

Frequently Asked Questions

MiCA is the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. It establishes harmonised requirements for crypto-asset issuers, public offers, trading and crypto-asset service providers across the EU.

A CASP is a business providing one or more regulated crypto-asset services, such as custody, operating a trading platform, exchanging crypto-assets, executing orders, providing advice or transferring crypto-assets for clients.

The stablecoin provisions became applicable on 30 June 2024, while the wider MiCA framework became applicable on 30 December 2024. The maximum transitional period for existing CASPs ended on 1 July 2026.

As of July 2026, the maximum EU transitional period has ended. A firm providing crypto-asset services to EU clients generally needs MiCA authorisation or another valid regulatory basis.

CASP authorisation is normally granted by the competent authority in the firm’s EU home Member State. Authorised firms are included in the central register maintained by ESMA.

Yes. An authorised CASP can use MiCA’s cross-border notification process to provide approved services in other Member States without obtaining a separate full authorisation in each country.

A CASP authorised under MiCA must have a registered office in an EU Member State, carry out at least part of its services there and maintain its effective management within the Union.

MiCA is an EU regulation and does not replace UK law. However, a UK business actively offering crypto-asset services to EU clients may need a MiCA-authorised EU entity or another legally valid arrangement.

The UK is developing a separate cryptoasset regime expected to commence on 25 October 2027.

Yes. Learners receive a certificate of completion after finishing the course and assessment.

Yes. The course is fully online and self-paced, so learners can study around their work schedule.

The course should be reviewed regularly to reflect changes in MiCA technical standards, ESMA and EBA guidance, DORA requirements, AML rules and supervisory practices.

No. MiCA authorisation demonstrates that a provider has met regulatory requirements for specified services. It does not remove cryptoasset volatility, technology, liquidity, fraud or investment risks.