In recent months, a pattern has caught attention in the DACH financial scene: Austrian fintech and crypto players repeatedly finding themselves under the scrutiny of Germany’s financial watchdog, the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin).
From structural findings at...
A regulated Cyprus-based E-Money Institution (EMI) has been fined €350,000 by the Central Bank of Cyprus following an AML compliance examination covering the 2020 financial year. The sanction, now under judicial review, constitutes a confirmed supervisory...
Another compliance-related controversy has surfaced in the fintech sector — this time involving Revolut.
According to recent reporting, a former employee allegedly threatened to leak...
FinTelegram sounded the alarm. We exposed the gaping holes, the glaring red flags, and the staggering audacity of the regulatory maneuvers. Now, the inevitable...
When the world’s largest crypto exchange says “nothing to see here,” markets tend to listen. But when investigative journalists allege that over $1 billion...
While U.S. crypto heavyweights report massive Q4 losses amid collapsing token prices, Europe faces a more structural crisis. The MiCA transition is turning Lithuania into a regulatory stress laboratory — and early signals suggest a wave of “quiet” and “regulatory” bankruptcies may reshape the EU crypto landscape by 2026.
RatEx42, the leading compliance intelligence platform, today announced the formal listing and immediate Red (High Risk) rating for the ARI10 Group, including its primary...
Lithuania has ceased to be the "Wild West" of European crypto. As the Bank of Lithuania drops the MiCA guillotine, once-dominant iGaming rails like utPay and CoinsPaid have vanished into a regulatory blackout. With only a 3% survival rate for registered VASPs, the industry is witnessing a desperate migration to the "Polish Shelter." Is this a cleanup, or merely a relocation of the shadow economy?
Let’s stop sugarcoating it.
The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) is not a love letter to decentralization. It is not designed to preserve “crypto culture”....
The transition to MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets) has not eliminated risk; it has merely driven it underground. While Tier-1 institutions adopt "clean" rails, a...
Published: February 2026
The European crypto market has entered a new phase — not regulation, but enforcement.
With the full application of the Markets in Crypto-Assets...
RatEx42, the leading compliance intelligence platform for the financial industry, today announced the formal listing and Black (Critical Risk) rating of Dream Finance, the...
Published: February 2026Reading time: 5 min.
For years, Europe’s crypto economy ran on an uncomfortable truth: a large part of its payment infrastructure existed in...
