Tag: CASP

MiCA/MiFID-II Perimeter Radar: Dream Finance, CoinsPaid And CryptoProcessing Enter The Restricted-Activity Zone

FinTelegram’s MiCA/MiFID-II Perimeter Radar examines Dream Finance OÜ, the Estonian operator behind CoinsPaid and CryptoProcessing. The group says its MiCA CASP application remains under review and that active activities have been restricted — but the CoinsPaid disclosure gap raises fresh compliance questions.

WhiteBIT Secures Austrian MiCA License — Vienna’s FMA Emerges As A Key Gateway For Global Crypto Exchanges

By FinTelegram Editorial Desk The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) has granted a MiCAR authorisation to WB-Shield Innovations GmbH, the...

F1 Sponsor Nexo Under the Compliance Lens: VASP Registrations, Yield Products, and MiCA Pressure in Europe

Nexo markets itself as a premier digital-asset wealth platform, but its licensing posture in Europe appears materially narrower than its branding suggests. A review of Nexo’s public positioning, entity footprint, product stack, and prior regulatory actions indicates a business model that sits at the intersection of crypto-asset services, lending, and investment-like products, with MiCA likely to force sharper legal boundaries in the EU.

AXIOM And The MiCA Perimeter: Why This “DeFi Trading Platform” Raises Serious EU Compliance Questions

AXIOM presents itself as a decentralised trading platform, but its own materials describe a branded, fee-based crypto service stack with wallet functionality, no-KYC onboarding, yield features, and leveraged perpetuals trading. For EU compliance analysts, that raises a central MiCA question: is this really “DeFi,” or a brokerage-like access layer inside the regulatory perimeter?