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Crypto Exchange Account Frozen: Why Nobody Tells You Why, and What Actually Helps
If you get no explanation after a freeze, it feels like arbitrary treatment. In fact the German Money Laundering Act forbids the provider from telling you. What happens in that time, which deadlines apply and which documents shorten the process.
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Complaining About a Crypto Exchange: the Deadlines Article 71 MiCAR Sets and Why BaFin Will Not Decide Your Case
Authorised crypto providers have to run a formal complaints procedure, and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/294 sets a hard limit of two months for it. Our own analysis of the ESMA list shows at the same time that no complaints link is on file for Germany to this day.
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24-Hour Trading on US Exchanges: What the SEC Roundtable Means for Tokenized Stocks
The US Securities and Exchange Commission takes up the path to round-the-clock trading on American equity markets on September 17, 2026. For tokenized stocks on Kraken and Binance, that puts their most important selling point back on the table.
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Crypto Job Offers Using Your Own Bank Account: How the Money Mule Scheme Works and Why Money Laundering Starts With Negligence
On August 18, 2026 BaFin warned about job offers in which applicants are to pass third-party payments through their own account and exchange them into crypto-assets. Anyone taking part risks criminal proceedings for money laundering, and gross negligence is already enough.
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Crypto Exchange Insolvency: When Your Coins Can Be Segregated and When They Fall Into the Estate
If a custodian goes under, neither the deposit guarantee nor investor compensation covers crypto-assets. Whether the holdings are still yours is decided by the right of segregation under Section 47 of the German Insolvency Code, and you can read up on the condition for it beforehand.
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Crypto ETF Approval in the US: Why the SEC Is Rewriting Its Rules for Staking and Altcoin Funds
The US securities regulator has opened a proceeding that will help decide the next generation of crypto funds, and is putting 27 questions on the table. Anyone can file a comment until August 31, 2026, from Europe as much as from the United States.
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Checking a MiCAR White Paper: What the First Published MiCA Penalty Against Bitpanda Means for Investors
Austria's FMA has fined Bitpanda GmbH 70,000 euros because a crypto-asset white paper was filed late and advertised before it had been published. We explain what rights this mandatory document gives you, and called up all 972 white papers held in the ESMA register to see whether they can be reached at all.
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Forced Sale on a Crypto Exchange: Which Moment Counts for the Holding Period and What You Must Document
At Luno, Kraken and Valour the deadlines are running out, after which the provider realises the remaining holding itself. For tax purposes that is a disposal, and what governs it is the exchange's timestamp.
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