Is Bitpanda regulated? Licences and regulatory disclosures
Last updated · Entries last verified against the registers on the same day · Reviewed by Head of Compliance
Bitpanda GmbH is authorised as a crypto-asset service provider under MiCAR by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA), under commercial register number 569240v, with 9 April 2025 as the authorisation date in the ESMA register; Bitpanda Asset Management GmbH is authorised under MiCAR by BaFin (BaFin-ID 10159692), and separate group companies hold the e-money and investment-firm licences.
Crypto-assets are highly volatile. You could sustain a loss of some or all of your investment, so it is important to invest only what you can afford to lose. Read the risk disclosure
Yes. Bitpanda is a group of companies, each supervised for the service it provides. This page names every company with its regulator, its status in the regulator's own wording, its identifier and its register link, and gives no licence count. See also the page about the Bitpanda group and the fees by product and company.
Bitpanda GmbH
Provides the crypto-asset services on this website: broker, Fusion, staking and custody.
- Company
- FN 569240 v (Commercial Court Vienna), VAT ID ATU78580117. Stella-Klein-Löw Weg 17, 1020 Vienna, Austria
- Regulator and status
- Authorised as a crypto-asset service provider under MiCAR by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA), under commercial register number 569240v. Authorised
- Identifier
- Commercial register number 569240v; LEI 5493007WZ7IFULIL8G21. Neither the legal notice nor the FMA company database shows a separate licence number.
- Date
- 9 April 2025, the authorisation date in the ESMA interim MiCA register.
- Services
- Custody and administration (a), exchange for funds (c), exchange for other crypto-assets (d), execution of orders (e), placing (f), reception and transmission of orders (g), transfer services (j). Passported to all 30 EEA states.
- Not covered
- Operating a trading platform (service b), advice and portfolio management. By Bitpanda's own disclosure, Earn on Stablecoins is outside MiCAR.
How assets are held is covered by the security and custody facts, and the risk disclosure says what authorisation does not protect.
Bitpanda Asset Management GmbH
The group's German crypto-asset service provider.
- Company
- HRB 258842 B (Berlin Local Court). Dircksenstrasse 4, 10179 Berlin, Germany
- Regulator and status
- Authorised as a crypto-asset service provider under MiCAR by BaFin (BaFin-ID 10159692), the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority. Authorised
- Identifier
- BaFin-ID 10159692; LEI 9845005X9B7N610K0093.
- Date
- 24 January 2025, the authorisation date in the ESMA interim MiCA register.
- Services
- Custody and administration (a), exchange for funds (c), exchange for other crypto-assets (d), transfer services (j).
- Dispute bodies
- Deutsche Bundesbank conciliation office and the BaFin Conciliation Board; see complaints and dispute bodies.
Bitpanda Payments GmbH
Provides e-money and payment services.
- Company
- FN 501412 x, at the same Vienna address as Bitpanda GmbH.
- Regulator and status
- E-money institution licensed in Austria by the FMA, holding an e-money and PSD2 licence (commercial register number 501412x; institute code 94646). Licensed
- Legal basis
- E-Geldgesetz 2010 and ZaDiG 2018.
- Date
- to be confirmed
Bitpanda Financial Services GmbH
Provides stocks, ETFs and other financial instruments.
- Company
- FN 551181 k, at the same Vienna address as Bitpanda GmbH.
- Regulator and status
- Investment services provider licensed in Austria by the FMA (commercial register number 551181k). Investment firm under section 3 WAG 2018. Licensed
- Date
- Licence since 27 February 2021; current licence scope since 11 July 2025 (FMA company database).
- Investor compensation
- Shareholder of Anlegerentschädigung von Wertpapierfirmen GmbH, per the legal notice.
Bitpanda Metals GmbH
Sells precious metals.
- Company
- FN 511923 d, at the same Vienna address as Bitpanda GmbH.
- Supervision
- A trade business under the Austrian Trade Act (Gewerbeordnung 1994). Its supervisory authority is the Magistrate District Office for the 2nd district of Vienna. This is trade supervision, not financial-services supervision.
- Identifier
- Trade register number: to be confirmed
Group companies outside this website
These companies do not serve clients of this website. They are listed so that every permission connected with the Bitpanda name can be checked.
Bitpanda Broker UK Ltd
Atlantic House, Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2FG. Registered with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as a cryptoasset business under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017, for AML and CFT supervision only. This is a registration, not an authorisation: the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme do not apply. This website is not addressed to UK consumers. FCA register search.
Bitpanda Broker MENA FZCO and Bitpanda Custody MENA FZCO
Dubai, UAE. The public register of the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) lists Bitpanda Broker MENA FZCO as licensed for Broker-Dealer Services (VASP Licence VL/25/03/001, issued 19 March 2025) and Bitpanda Custody MENA FZCO as licensed for Custody Services, including custodial staking (VASP Licence VL/25/04/006, issued 25 April 2025). Both entries were active on . The live legal notice still writes "Bitpanda Broker MENA DMCC" and "VL/2025/03/001". VARA public register: search for "Bitpanda".
BP23 CA Limited
66, Apt 5, Old Theatre Street, Valletta, VLT 1427, Malta. The ESMA interim MiCA register lists this company under the commercial name Bitpanda as a crypto-asset service provider authorised by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) on 27 January 2025, for services a, c, d, e, g and j in Malta only (LEI 984500DEID7B03J77118). Its role in the group is to be confirmed.
Bitpanda Group AG
Hardstrasse 201, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland, company number CHE-267.250.666. The group holding company. The sources read for this page state no licence for it.
How to verify these entries yourself
- ESMA. Open the ESMA page on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, download the register file of crypto-asset service providers (CSV) and search it for "Bitpanda". You should find three rows with LEI, date, services and host states.
- FMA. Search the FMA company database for "Bitpanda". It returns four entries, each with its category and commercial register number.
- BaFin. Open the BaFin company database and search for BaFin-ID 10159692.
The guide to checking a MiCA licence explains what each field means. If an entry here looks wrong or out of date, contact Bitpanda. To see the products these companies provide, start at Bitpanda home.
Check it at the source
ESMA publishes the interim register of crypto-asset service providers under MiCA, with the date and services of each entry.