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Summary

Revolut is a UK-headquartered fintech and licensed neobank offering crypto trading, custody, and a euro stablecoin (EURR) to millions of customers across Europe and the UK, operating its crypto arm under a Cyprus MiCA license. While Revolut holds real regulatory licenses and has expanded its crypto product line significantly through 2026, it carries a documented risk profile: a 2025 anti-money-laundering fine in Lithuania, prior UK regulatory scrutiny over suspicious-account payouts, an outsized share of UK fraud complaints relative to peer banks, a September 2026 data breach that exposed customers' Bitcoin transaction histories and KYC documents via a spoofed government request, and abrupt crypto-service shutdowns in some jurisdictions (Hungary, the US) driven by regulatory change.

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    Timeline(8 events)

    August 2023

    Revolut announces it will wind down crypto services for US customers, citing regulatory uncertainty; buy orders end September 2 and platform access is disabled by October 3, 2023 with holdings liquidated automatically.

    Benzinga / Fortune

    September 2023

    UK FCA and NCA reported to be examining whether Revolut improperly allowed up to £1.7 million to be paid out of accounts flagged as suspicious by the NCA.

    AML Intelligence

    8 April 2025

    Bank of Lithuania fines Revolut Bank UAB €3.5 million for AML monitoring deficiencies — the largest such penalty in Lithuanian history.

    Irish Times

    23 October 2025

    Revolut's crypto arm receives a MiCA Crypto-Asset Service Provider license from Cyprus's CySEC, enabling regulated crypto services across the EEA.

    CoinDesk

    December 2025

    Deadline for Hungarian Revolut customers to sell or withdraw crypto holdings as Revolut exits the Hungarian crypto market amid new criminal penalties for unlicensed crypto services in Hungary.

    Budapest Business Journal

    August 2026

    Revolut expands its EURR euro stablecoin rollout to eligible users in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal under its MiCA authorization.

    Cryptonomist

    September 2026

    Some affected Revolut customers reportedly begin receiving breach-notification communications, according to subsequent reporting.

    The Block

    September 2026

    Revolut confirms a data breach in which customer KYC documents and Bitcoin transaction histories were disclosed to an attacker who impersonated a government agency's email domain; blockchain investigator ZachXBT publicizes the incident and warns of 'wrench attack' risk to affected high-net-worth users.

    The Block / CoinDesk / Decrypt
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    Decision Log

    This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 16 of 19 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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    generated: 9/13/2026, 12:13:45 PM

    last updated: 9/13/2026, 5:04:50 PM

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