Tag: investor protection

From Binary Options To DeFi Brokers: Why FinTelegram Has Published A DeFi Compliance Perimeter

DeFin Brokers Reg Techer - March 17, 2026

FinTelegram has published its DeFi Compliance Perimeter as an evergreen framework for reviewing DeFi brokers, investment schemes, and supporting rails. The goal is simple: to define the new compliance perimeter before the next retail-investor damage cycle scales.

ESMA Draws The Line: Why Hyperliquid’s Crypto Perpetuals Look Increasingly Like CFDs In DeFi Clothing

Compliance Reg Techer - March 16, 2026

ESMA has now said the quiet part out loud: many derivatives marketed as crypto perpetuals are likely CFDs in the EU. For Hyperliquid and front ends like AXIOM, that raises major questions around leverage, retail targeting, appropriateness, and investor protection.

From Binary Options To DeFi Brokers: Same Perimeter Game, New Rails

Crypto Compliance tamir - March 15, 2026

FinTelegram will increasingly focus on DeFi brokers and DeFi investment schemes alongside offshore casinos. The reason is simple: the perimeter game has not disappeared. It has evolved. What binary options and offshore brokers once did through shell structures and payment agents is now being rebuilt through DeFi-branded interfaces, on/off-ramp layers, wallet logic, and outsourced execution rails.

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