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FTC orders Celsius co-founder to pay $10m for crypto lending fraud
Plus, ACPR fines MoneyGram €1.3m for compliance breaches, OFAC adds Iranian official to sanctions list, and FinCEN/OFAC propose stablecoin compliance rules.
10 February 2026 · 4 min read
The FTC's $10 million settlement with Celsius co-founder Daniel Mashinsky marks another high-profile enforcement action against crypto lending platforms over deceptive marketing. The order reflects regulators' intensifying focus on misleading yield claims in digital asset products. Today we also cover MoneyGram's French fine, a fresh Iran sanctions designation, and the joint FinCEN/OFAC push to tighten stablecoin issuer compliance obligations. Three separate regulatory signals you need to track.
In today's brief
- 1 How did Celsius escape earlier regulatory scrutiny on yield claims until the FTC intervened post-collapse?
- 2 What MoneyGram's French fine reveals about transaction monitoring blind spots in payments
- 3 What does a new Iran designation mean for your vendor screening and transaction monitoring filters?
- 4 Will stablecoin issuers treat OFAC screening as core infrastructure, or compliance bolt-on?
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