Banca Sella gets green light to provide crypto services to customers in Italian first

The fintech-forward backstage slope said it is the archetypal Italian lender to get Bank of Italy support nether MiCA to connection integer plus custody and transfers.

May 27, 2026, 1:43 p.m. 2 min read

Banca Sella said it became the archetypal Italian lender to unafraid a crypto services licence from the Bank of Italy nether the European Union’s Markets successful Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation.

The backstage bank, which has 50 cardinal euros ($54 billion) successful assets nether absorption and much than 3.1 cardinal customers, said it completed a ceremonial 40-day notification process, clearing it to rotation retired crypto services to clients aboriginal this year.

“Being approved arsenic a crypto-asset services supplier volition alteration Banca Sella to motorboat successful 2026 a solution dedicated to the custody, transportation and receipt of integer assets aimed astatine selected categories of customers,” the slope said successful a website statement.

While the bank’s archetypal retail crypto plans were routed done its mobile-banking venture, Hype. This caller corporate-facing infrastructure relies connected a compliance concern with blockchain quality steadfast Chainalysis and an interior integer plus aviator initially built alongside Fireblocks.

Sella joins the astir 20 large European banks offering crypto plus services nether MiCA, including Germany’s Commerzbank and LBBW, France's Société Générale FORGE and Spain’s BBVA.

The slope is among the founders of Qivalis, a radical of 37 European banks aiming to contented a euro-denominated stablecoin this year.

Sella said it is progressive successful EU tokenization of deposits and payments projects specified as Pontes and Appia projects, which are aimed astatine bolstering the bloc’s fiscal autonomy.

“The improvement of payments toward instant, interoperable, and programmable models - besides driven by the tokenization of currencies and assets - is redefining fiscal infrastructures astatine European and planetary level,” said Andrea Tessera, the bank's managing manager of integer banking.