Photo Illustrating Coinbase in Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China on June 6, 2023 (Photo Illustration by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)British regulators fined Coinbase's U.K. arm £3.5 million ($4.5 million) on Thursday over breaching a voluntary agreement designed to stop the cryptocurrency exchange from onboarding "high-risk customers."
CB Payments Limited (CBPL) is part of the Coinbase Group, which operates a global crypto trading platform.
In October 2020, CBPL entered into a voluntary agreement with the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), accepting restrictions that prevented it from taking on new customers that the regulator considered high-risk.
However, CBPL breached the agreement and onboarded and served 13,416 of so-called high-risk customers, the FCA said.
These funds were used to make withdrawals and execute crypto transactions via other Coinbase entities, totaling approximately $226 million.
Persons:
CBPL, Therese Chambers, Coinbase
Organizations:
Getty Images, Payments, Coinbase, Authority, FCA
Locations:
Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China