Kraken may be one of the largest exchanges in the cryptocurrency industry, but that did not stop the British regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
blacklisting it in the UK for providing financial services in the country without its authorization. The FCA issued a fairly standard warning that lists the domain of the offending party, some email addresses and phone numbers that allegedly belong to Kraken. The domain was correct, but Kraken claims that those emails and phone numbers are not theirs, which is a strange detail to get wrong – and also a strange detail to deny in case it is not actually wrong.
Kraken also clarified that its futures trading platform called CryptoFacilities is already registered in the UK.
That is one weird kerfuffle and I can’t wait to see how it will end.