{"id":644343,"date":"2026-08-17T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/bitpanda-fined-in-austrias-first-published-mica-penalty\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:52:44","slug":"bitpanda-fined-in-austrias-first-published-mica-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/bitpanda-fined-in-austrias-first-published-mica-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitpanda fined in Austria\u2019s first published MiCA penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-european-union-moves-to-regulate-crypto-asset-market-bitpanda.jpg\" alt=\"Bitpanda fined in Austria\u2019s first published MiCA penalty\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The FMA said Bitpanda breached MiCA rules on crypto white papers and marketing communications, with the decision now final.<\/p>\n<p>Austria\u2019s financial regulator has fined crypto platform Bitpanda 70,000 euros ($82,000) for violating the European Union\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, in the watchdog\u2019s first published final penalty under MiCA.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/bekanntmachung-fma-verhaengt-sanktion-gegen-die-bitpanda-gmbh-wegen-verstoessen-gegen-die-micar\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Friday that Bitpanda failed to submit a crypto-asset white paper to the regulator at least 20 working days before its publication, as required under MiCA.<\/p>\n<p>Bitpanda also distributed a marketing communication before publishing the required white paper, according to the regulator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitpanda-fined-austrian-published-mica-penalty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FMA said Bitpanda breached MiCA rules on crypto white papers and marketing communications, with the decision now final. Austria\u2019s financial regulator has fined crypto platform Bitpanda 70,000 euros ($82,000) for violating the European Union\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, in the watchdog\u2019s first published final penalty under MiCA. The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-644343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}