Regulatory Landscape for Digital Assets
The digital assets sector faces an increasingly complex and mandatory regulatory environment. The EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), fully applicable from December 2024, establishes licensing requirements for crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) across the EU — with explicit cybersecurity, operational resilience, and governance obligations that ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 directly address.
MiCA Compliance — Key Requirements
- Robust ICT risk management systems (directly satisfied by ISO 27001 ISMS)
- Business continuity and disaster recovery plans (ISO 22301)
- Operational incident reporting to competent authorities
- Custody and safeguarding of client assets with documented controls
- Anti-money laundering (AML) and KYC compliance integration
Certifications for Crypto & Web3 Organisations
- ISO/IEC 27001 — Foundational information security management; required by MiCA and by institutional and B2B partners.
- ISO 22301 — Business Continuity; required by MiCA Article 72 and addressed in DORA for CASPs qualifying as financial entities.
- GDPR — All EU-operating CASPs processing personal data must comply; ISO 27701 provides the documented accountability framework.
- SOC 2 — Required for US-listed token offerings, US institutional custody partnerships, and Nasdaq/NYSE-listed digital asset companies.
BALTUM MiCA Readiness Programme
BALTUM provides a structured MiCA readiness assessment that maps your current controls to MiCA Title IV and Title V requirements — identifying gaps and providing a prioritised remediation roadmap aligned to your CASP licence application timeline. ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 are integrated as the technical control foundations for MiCA compliance.