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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
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- Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) €140,793 100 % · 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 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | €140,793 |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
6 Aug 2025 Finanzierungsgesellschaft (anonymisiert)CBUAE fines finance company AED 600,000 for consumer protection breaches €140,793
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) fined an unnamed finance company AED 600,000 under Article 137 of the central bank law (Decretal Federal Law No. 14 of 2018). Examinations had found that the company had failed to comply with the central bank's Market Conduct and Consumer Protection Regulations and Standards.
Consumer protection rules in the financial sector are examined and sanctioned in their own right, not only anti-money laundering obligations.
Market conduct and consumer protection at finance companies
- Authority / court
- Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE)
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail
- Legal basis
- Art. 137 Decretal Federal Law No. (14) of 2018; CBUAE Market Conduct and Consumer Protection Regulations and Standards
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 6 Aug 2025
Original amount 600,000 AED, converted at the ECB reference rate of 6 Aug 2025.
- CBUAE: CBUAE Imposes a Financial Sanction on a Finance Company (Pressemitteilung, PDF, 06.08.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link