Banca d’Italia is Italy’s central bank and prudential authority under MiCAR. Italy applies a twin-peaks model under Legislative Decree No. 129 of 5 September 2024: Banca d’Italia is responsible for authorising and supervising issuers of asset-referenced tokens (ARTs) and electronic-money tokens (EMTs); CONSOB is responsible for authorising and supervising crypto-asset service providers (CASPs).

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