ASIC has filed a lawsuit against taken fintech iSignthis (ISX) and its Managing Director, John Karantzis, to court. The regulator filed a lawsuit last week alleging iSignthis and Karantzis had breached its disclosure obligations and misled shareholders regarding some high-paying contracts signed during the first half of 2018. Behind the ASIC proceedings are 2018 contracts and revenues related to some 336.7 million performance shares for the ISX management. ISX used to be part of the Israeli Network of Binary Options Supervillains of Yossi Herzog.
The problems of European FinTechs with regulatory authorities are currently almost endless. Now the Australian iSignthis also seems to have problems with AML. At least its Cyprus-based subsidiary iSignthis eMoney Ltd, an e-Money Institution regulated by the Central Bank of Cypris is currently suspended in the VISA network because of AML problems. Allegedly only a formal error says CEO John Karantzis.
Yossi Herzog is the mastermind behind some big binary options and forex scam schemes such as Yukom. He and his partner Kobi Cohen have been active across the globe and left their bloody trail also in Australia.