Is SHARES regulated in the EU?
SHARES — legal name SHARES FINANCIAL ASSETS SAS. Crypto-asset service provider (CASP) with home Member State 🇫🇷 France.
Authorised under MiCA
SHARES is listed in the ESMA register as an authorised crypto-asset service provider. The licence was granted by Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) on 28 July 2026 and covers 3 of 10 MiCA services in 14 EEA countries.
SHARES among the EU's authorised providers
SHARES was the 35th of 36 crypto-asset service providers currently authorised in France, and one of 365 across the EEA, licensed 19 months after MiCA became applicable. With 3 authorised services it is at the register average of 3.3; 162 providers hold a broader one. It has notified 14 of 30 EEA countries; 58 providers have notified all of them. AMF supervises 36 authorised providers in total.
What the authorisation covers
SHARES is authorised for 3 of the ten crypto-asset services defined in Article 3(1)(16) of MiCA. It is not authorised for operating a trading platform, exchange for funds, exchange for other crypto-assets, execution of orders, placing of crypto-assets, advice on crypto-assets, portfolio management — if it offers those, that activity is outside this licence.
- a Custody and administration 14 countries Holding clients' crypto-assets or the private keys to them, and keeping them safe. This is what a wallet service or an exchange that keeps your coins does.
- g Reception and transmission of orders 14 countries Taking a client's order to buy or sell and passing it on to another provider that executes it — a broker that does not execute itself.
- j Transfer services 14 countries Moving crypto-assets from one distributed-ledger address or account to another on the client's behalf.
Not authorised: b. Operating a trading platform · c. Exchange for funds · d. Exchange for other crypto-assets · e. Execution of orders · f. Placing of crypto-assets · h. Advice on crypto-assets · i. Portfolio management.
Where it may operate
Through the MiCA passport, SHARES has notified 14 countries: Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Slovenia. It has not notified the other 16 EEA states, so a client there is outside the scope of the notification.
- 🇦🇹 AT
- 🇧🇪 BE
- 🇧🇬 BG
- 🇭🇷 HR
- 🇨🇾 CY
- 🇨🇿 CZ
- 🇩🇰 DK
- 🇪🇪 EE
- 🇫🇮 FI
- 🇫🇷 FR
- 🇩🇪 DE
- 🇬🇷 GR
- 🇭🇺 HU
- 🇮🇸 IS
- 🇮🇪 IE
- 🇮🇹 IT
- 🇱🇻 LV
- 🇱🇮 LI
- 🇱🇹 LT
- 🇱🇺 LU
- 🇲🇹 MT
- 🇳🇱 NL
- 🇳🇴 NO
- 🇵🇱 PL
- 🇵🇹 PT
- 🇷🇴 RO
- 🇸🇰 SK
- 🇸🇮 SI
- 🇪🇸 ES
- 🇸🇪 SE
Highlighted: countries notified for at least one service. Outlined: home Member State. Passporting is per service; see the list on the left for each service's count.
Identification
- Legal name
- SHARES FINANCIAL ASSETS SAS
- Trading as
- SHARES
- LEI
- 9695001LQMTTVPIIQI05 · GLEIF record
- Competent authority
- Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) (France)
- Registered address
- 6 Rue Abel Truchet - 75017 Paris, France
- Declared website
- shares.io
- Trading platform
- shares.io
- Authorised on
- 28 July 2026
- Register entry updated
- 28 July 2026
Questions people ask
Is SHARES regulated in the EU?
Yes. SHARES (SHARES FINANCIAL ASSETS SAS) holds a MiCA authorisation as a crypto-asset service provider, granted by Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) on 28 July 2026. It appears in the ESMA register of authorised CASPs.
Which crypto services is SHARES authorised for?
3 of the ten MiCA services: custody and administration, reception and transmission of orders, transfer services.
In which countries can SHARES offer crypto services?
14 EEA countries: Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Slovenia.
Who supervises SHARES?
Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the competent authority in France, which is the provider's home Member State under MiCA.
Other providers authorised in France
- CRYPTO-AMMEREAU FINANCE SASAuthorised
- COINHOUSECOINHOUSE SASAuthorised
- REGULARREGULAR FINANCE SASAuthorised
- DESKOINDESKOIN SASAuthorised
- MEATAL GEARMETAL GEAR SASAuthorised
- Bpifrance InvestissementAuthorised
Source: ESMA interim MiCA register (CASPS.csv), as reported by Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF). This page reflects the register as of our last sync; it is not a statement by the regulator. Methodology.