Tag: Bitpanda Asset Management

BaFin’s Bitpanda Bombshell: Vienna’s MiCA Hub Puts Austria’s FMA Under the Compliance Microscope

A BaFin special audit has found 16 deficiencies at Bitpanda’s German subsidiary, including serious weaknesses in risk management, IT and outsourcing. Yet Bitpanda’s home regulator, Austria’s FMA, is simultaneously building a MiCA “crypto hub” in Vienna – licensing Bitpanda and other high-risk players – with Austrian lawyer Oliver Stauber among the key architects.tick