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Luxembourg-based Banking Circle has launched stablecoin settlement services after receiving a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg's financial regulator on April 15, expanding into regulated fiat-to-stablecoin and stablecoin-to-fiat settlement for institutional clients.
The rollout includes support for Circle's $USDC, Paxos' USDG and Banking Circle's own euro stablecoin $EURI, expanding the bank's digital asset settlement capabilities beyond its initial $EURI launch in August 2024.
In a Monday announcement, the bank said it serves more than 750 payment companies, financial institutions and marketplaces that move and convert over 1.5 trillion euros (roughly $1.7 trillion) annually across its infrastructure. Chief digital asset officer Kirit Bhatia said in the release that stablecoins are "a natural extension" of the bank's infrastructure and central to reducing costs and improving efficiencies.
The move comes as Europe’s market for regulated stablecoin issuance and settlement continues to grow, with banks, fintechs and crypto-native companies competing to build compliant digital asset payment infrastructure under the European Union's Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework.
Cointelegraph reached out to Banking Circle for comment but had not received a response by publication.
Banking Circle deepens push into crowded euro stablecoins
In August 2024, Banking Circle launched $EURI, which it described as a bank-issued MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin, giving it an earlier foothold before securing CASP authorization in Europe.
Banking Circle launches stablecoin settlement services. Source: Banking Circle
The euro stablecoin market is becoming increasingly crowded. French bank Société Générale's SG-FORGE launched its euro stablecoin $EURCV in April 2023 on Ethereum and later expanded to additional blockchain networks as part of a broader multi-chain strategy.
On April 15, SG-FORGE integrated its MiCA-compliant dollar stablecoin USDCV into MetaMask, giving the wallet's millions of users access to a regulated dollar token issued by a major European bank.
Swiss bank Sygnum added $EURCV to its B2B platform in January 2025 to serve institutional clients and partner banks, and in September 2025, a consortium of European banks, including ING, UniCredit and CaixaBank, announced Qivalis, a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin expected to launch in the second half of 2026.
The consortium has since expanded to 12 banks, including BBVA, BNP Paribas and DZ Bank, and partnered with Fireblocks to provide custody and tokenization infrastructure for the MiCA-compliant stablecoin ahead of launch
Crypto-native infrastructure companies are also competing in the same segment. Circle, the issuer of $USDC, announced its Circle Payments Network in April 2025 as a managed settlement service for banks and payment service providers, while Coinbase's April 21 partnership with global payments platform Nium enables businesses to fund cross-border transfers with $USDC and settle in either $USDC or fiat across a network spanning more than 190 countries.
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