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VASP Compliance Summary — BTCC

BTCC Global Ltd · Exchange · United Kingdom

Exported 2026-08-25

Data reviewed 2026-08-04

Overview

Compliance snapshot

Overall regulatory statusRegistered

EU MiCA statusNo EU authorization

FinCEN and FINTRAC money services business registrations
Lithuanian VASP registration for European custodial services
Trustpilot 3.7/5 · 1,240 reviews
Operating since 2011 with no material customer-asset loss on record

Medium concern

Long operating history with North American MSB registrations and a Lithuanian VASP registration, but no MiCA authorization and derivatives are offered from offshore entities.

Authorizations

Licenses & registrations

Jurisdiction	Regulator	Authorization	Status	Reference	Granted
United States	Financial Crimes Enforcement Network FinCEN · https://www.fincen.gov/msb-registrant-search	MSB registration	Registered	31000-1804-9920	2018-04-23
Canada	Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada FINTRAC · https://www10.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca/msb-esm/public/msb-search/search-by-name/	MSB registration	Registered	M19410023	2019-04-10
Lithuania	Bank of Lithuania LB · https://www.lb.lt/en/sfi-financial-market-participants	VASP registration (exchange and custodial wallet)	Registered	LT-VASP-2022-0612	2022-08-05

Reputation

Reputation scores

Trustpilot-style score3.7 / 5

Reviews1,240

App Store4.3

Google Play4.0

12-month trendup

Press sentiment (12m)+4 / ~4 / −2

Media

Recent press

Date	Source	Headline & summary	Sentiment
2026-07-06	Reuters	BTCC marks fifteen years of operation The venue highlighted continuity through several market cycles.	Positive
2026-04-08	Bloomberg	Derivatives entities reviewed by supervisors Offshore contracting structures drew supervisory questions.	Neutral
2026-01-14	CoinDesk	BTCC expands euro deposit options European users gained additional funding rails.	Positive
2025-10-02	Financial Times	Legacy venues court institutional flow Older operators positioned themselves on track record.	Neutral
2025-06-19	Reuters	Reserve attestation published An external attestation covered principal balances.	Positive

Risk events

Incidents & enforcement

Date	Type	Amount	Description
2024-02-08	Outage	—	Order matching degraded for around 70 minutes during a data-centre failover.

Profile

Key facts

Founded2011

Websitebtcc.com

Fiat currenciesUSD, EUR, GBP

Proof of reservesPartial

Custody modelCold-storage majority with third-party attestation

Legal entitiesBTCC Global Ltd (UK) · BTCC Exchange UAB (LT) · BTCC Financial Services Ltd (CA)

BTCC

RegisteredNo EU authorizationESMA register

BTCC Global Ltd

Exchange🇬🇧 United Kingdom Founded 2011btcc.com

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Last reviewed

2026-08-04

Compliance snapshot

FinCEN and FINTRAC money services business registrations
Lithuanian VASP registration for European custodial services
Trustpilot 3.7/5 · 1,240 reviews
Operating since 2011 with no material customer-asset loss on record

Overall concern

Medium concern

Long operating history with North American MSB registrations and a Lithuanian VASP registration, but no MiCA authorization and derivatives are offered from offshore entities.

Regulatory

Licenses & registrations

Jurisdiction	Regulator	Authorization	Status	Reference	Granted
🇺🇸 United States	Financial Crimes Enforcement NetworkFinCEN	MSB registration	Registered	31000-1804-9920	2018-04-23
🇨🇦 Canada	Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of CanadaFINTRAC	MSB registration	Registered	M19410023	2019-04-10
🇱🇹 Lithuania	Bank of LithuaniaLB	VASP registration (exchange and custodial wallet)	Registered	LT-VASP-2022-0612	2022-08-05

🇺🇸 United States
Registered
MSB registration
Financial Crimes Enforcement NetworkFinCEN
31000-1804-99202018-04-23
Verify at source
🇨🇦 Canada
Registered
MSB registration
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of CanadaFINTRAC
M194100232019-04-10
Verify at source
🇱🇹 Lithuania
Registered
VASP registration (exchange and custodial wallet)
Bank of LithuaniaLB
LT-VASP-2022-06122022-08-05
Verify at source

User signals

Reputation

Trustpilot-style score

3.7/ 5

3.7

1,240 reviews

Improving (12m)

App ratings

App Store: 4.3
Google Play: 4.0

Press sentiment (12m)

Positive4

Neutral4

Negative2

Media

Recent press

2026-07-06
BTCC marks fifteen years of operationPositive
Reuters — The venue highlighted continuity through several market cycles.
2026-04-08
Derivatives entities reviewed by supervisorsNeutral
Bloomberg — Offshore contracting structures drew supervisory questions.
2026-01-14
BTCC expands euro deposit optionsPositive
CoinDesk — European users gained additional funding rails.
2025-10-02
Legacy venues court institutional flowNeutral
Financial Times — Older operators positioned themselves on track record.
2025-06-19
Reserve attestation publishedPositive
Reuters — An external attestation covered principal balances.

History

Incidents & enforcement

2024-02-08Outage
Order matching degraded for around 70 minutes during a data-centre failover.