First Published MiCA Case Sees Bitpanda Fined EUR 70,000 in Austria

Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA) fined Bitpanda GmbH EUR 70,000 (about $81,000) for several breaches of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). The regulator disclosed the final decision Friday. The FMA called it the first legally binding MiCAR penalty decision it has published . That wording does not establish that Bitpanda received the first MiCAR fine in the European Union.…