StoneX

StoneX began in 1924 as a firm for hedging futures and commodity contracts and grew into a listed group for clearing, execution and payments. Beyond its 54,000 institutional and commercial clients it serves more than 260,000 self-directed clients, and in August 2025 it completed the purchase of the US clearing broker RJ O'Brien.

For banks and corporates the group is a counterparty in futures, metals, foreign exchange and over-the-counter products. StoneX Digital extends this relationship to crypto assets, so that a client can trade digital assets with the same group that clears its futures or handles its currency payments.

The Central Bank of Ireland authorized StoneX Digital International Limited on 19 December 2025 as a crypto-asset service provider under Article 63 of MiCA, and StoneX announced the license on 6 January 2026. The authorization covers custody and administration of crypto assets, exchange of crypto assets for funds and for other crypto assets, execution and reception and transmission of orders for clients and transfer services.

The ESMA interim MiCA register lists passport notifications for 29 further countries of the EU and the EEA, which include Germany, France and Italy. Brian Mulcahy leads StoneX Digital as chief executive, and Stuart Davison, chief operating officer of StoneX Group, tied the license to the plan to bring new products to existing clients.

An asset manager, a bank or a corporate treasury can trade crypto assets through StoneX Digital and keep them in custody with the same provider. Because the license includes reception and transmission of orders, StoneX can also pass client orders on to other firms for execution.

For a European client the MiCA license means that the counterparty is authorized by the Central Bank of Ireland and listed in the ESMA register. Questions on segregation of client assets, settlement and the credit lines between client and broker stay part of the due diligence.

StoneX Digital is the digital asset unit of StoneX Group and gives institutional and corporate investors access to crypto trading and custody. StoneX Digital started in 2022 and serves EU clients through StoneX Digital International Limited in Dublin.

Clients of StoneX trade crypto assets against fiat currencies or against other crypto assets, and StoneX executes the orders or forwards them to other firms. The service sits next to the futures, foreign exchange and securities business of the group, so a client can manage all positions with one broker.

StoneX Digital International Limited has its office in Portview House on Thorncastle Street in Dublin 4 and holds the MiCA authorization of the group. EU clients who want a provider under MiCA contract with this Irish company, which the AMF in France also lists as a passported provider.

StoneX Group Inc. trades on Nasdaq under the ticker SNEX and serves more than 54,000 institutional, commercial and payments clients plus more than 260,000 self-directed clients. The group works from more than 70 offices on six continents, with its parent company in the United States.

The MiCA license of StoneX Digital includes custody and administration of crypto assets as well as transfer services, so the Irish company can hold assets for clients and move them between addresses. Clients can therefore keep their crypto assets with StoneX and do not need a separate custodian.