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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Middle East: 1,929 cases from 40 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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Where?
by authority- Financial Services Regulatory Authority (ADGM) €2.7m 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Wechselstube (anonymisiert) €48.4m 81 % · 1 case
- AC Holding Limited (Cayman Islands, Hayvn-Muttergesellschaft) €3.24m 5 % · 1 case
- AC Limited (Hayvn) €2.7m 5 % · 1 case
- Sundus Exchange €2.35m 4 % · 1 case
- Wechselstube (anonymisiert, Sanktion vom 19.02.2025) €913,388 2 % · 1 case
- Bank (anonymisiert) €697,653 1 % · 1 case
- Aarna Capital Limited €479,179 1 % · 1 case
- Ark Capital Management (Dubai) Limited €425,676 1 % · 1 case
- Ed Broking (MENA) Limited €384,439 1 % · 1 case
- Finanzierungsgesellschaft (anonymisiert) €140,793 0 % · 1 case
- 9 more€30,711
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q4 2023 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2025 | 1 | €2.7m |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
3 Apr 2025 AC Limited (Hayvn)ADGM: 3m USD fine and permission cancelled for crypto firm AC Limited (Hayvn) €2.7m
The FSRA (Financial Services Regulatory Authority, the financial regulator of Abu Dhabi Global Market, ADGM) fined the provider of virtual asset trading and custody 3,000,000 USD and cancelled its Financial Services Permission. Between December 2021 and May 2024 it had dealt in virtual assets that were not accepted and exceeded its asset cap of 1 million USD, let client money run through accounts of an unregulated ADGM special purpose vehicle and of its parent company without formal agreements, maintained seven initially undisclosed client relationships without proper risk assessment and due diligence, and gave the regulator false and misleading information about bank accounts, clients and assets. The regulator considered the contraventions deliberate or at least reckless and increased the fine by 20% because of the false information.
False information to the regulator aggravates any sanction, and client money belongs in dedicated, protected client accounts.
Candour towards the regulator and protection of client money
- Authority / court
- Financial Services Regulatory Authority (ADGM)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Organisational requirements
- Legal basis
- Sections 17(1), 33, 214(4), 221 und 232 FSMR 2015; GEN Rules 2.2.1, 2.2.3, 2.2.9, 2.2.10, 2.2.11, 3.2.1, 3.3.1, 3.3.3, 3.3.7, 3.3.34, 8.1.2(6); COBS Rules 2.2.1, 14.2.1, 17.2.1; AML Rules 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 8.3.1(1), 8.4.1
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Mitigating circumstances
- Cooperation from mid-December 2023 and voluntary cessation of trading from 11 December 2023 under an enforceable undertaking; no previous non-compliance of a similar nature. The aggravating factors outweighed these.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
Original amount 3,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 3 Apr 2025.
- FSRA Final Notice an AC Limited (Hayvn) vom 3. April 2025 Decision of an authority
- ADGM FSRA Regulatory Actions and Sanctions (Durchsetzungsliste) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link