Overview
- KuCoin EU named Carmen Kleinhans as anti-money-laundering officer and added two deputy AML officers to rebuild its compliance unit.
- Austria’s Financial Market Authority ordered the company to stop serving EU customers because it lacked enough AML and compliance staff.
- The firm still holds a license under MiCA, the EU’s crypto rulebook for crypto-asset providers, but it has no date to restart services.
- Deputies Stephan Klinger and Bernd Träxler bring experience from Austria’s FMA and senior compliance posts at international banks.
- KuCoin’s wider group also faces actions by the U.S. CFTC and Dubai’s VARA, which raises cross-border scrutiny as it seeks a return in Europe.