Article 50 — Prohibition of granting interest.

Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA) — verbatim reproduction of Article 50 from the official EUR-Lex consolidated text.

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Article 50 — Prohibition of granting interest

1. Notwithstanding Article 12 of Directive 2009/110/EC, issuers of e-money tokens shall not grant interest in relation to e-money tokens. 2. Crypto-asset service providers shall not grant interest when providing crypto-asset services related to e-money tokens. 3. For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2, any remuneration or any other benefit related to the length of time during which a holder of an e-money token holds such e-money token shall be treated as interest. That includes net compensation or discounts, with an effect equivalent to that of interest received by the holder of the e-money token, directly from the issuer or from third parties, and directly associated to the e-money token or from the remuneration or pricing of other products.

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