Brazil’s Central Bank fines Banco Topazio $3.2M and bars crypto FX trading for 2 years

Brazil’s Central Bank, through its Copas committee, imposed a two-year ban on Banco Topazio’s foreign purchases and sales of cryptocurrency assets and issued a $3.2 million fine. The decision cites compliance failures between October 2020 and September 2021, when crypto trades totaling $1.7 billion were executed involving 15 legal entities without reporting atypical operations. Regulators said these transactions represented 63% of the bank’s foreign exchange volume during the period and flagged deficiencies tied to AML/CFT risk controls.