Tag: KYC

A whistleblower has submitted a detailed report concerning the crypto casino Crashino, alleging six-figure transaction activity without proper KYC/AML intervention, account closure, blockchain-traced funds, and post-dispute platform changes. FinTelegram’s preliminary review confirms that Crashino publicly identifies Igloo Ventures SRL as its operator and that Igloo Ventures has already been subject to regulatory action in Sweden and Australia.

In 2022, FinTelegram warned that MetaTrader’s publisher MetaQuotes sat inside a Cyprus structure with Russian roots, huge market reach, and unresolved beneficial-ownership questions beyond founder and CEO Renat Fatkhullin. In 2026, that concern looks even more relevant.

A new pressure campaign by DDG founder Nivie Kaul is pushing past the usual wallet-tracing narrative in crypto scam cases. Instead of focusing only on who stole the money, Kaul is asking who sat behind the infrastructure: MetaQuotes as the MT4/MT5 platform provider, Raritex as a key ownership layer, and Sumsub as the KYC vendor inside the broader chain. The result is a messy and politically charged story involving the DOJ’s record $225.3 million seizure.

The French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) has just recently firmly established the liability of payment processors like WorldPay and Seroph Holding (AlgoCharge) for facilitating unauthorized binary options schemes. As restitution payouts loom, this critical ruling sets a formidable due diligence standard that could ripple across the EU, offering renewed hope for victims pursuing institutional giants like ING's Payvision.

While European gambling regulators intensify their crackdown on illegal offshore casinos, a more uncomfortable question is emerging for the banking sector: are major retail banks, through rigid chargeback practices and weak scrutiny of miscoded card transactions, helping illegal gambling networks stay operational?

In April 2019, German media outlets reported on a money laundering case around the German Fintech Startup N26. According...

Update April 24, 2019: FinTelegram received information from Jubiter Technologies and their measures taken to avoid money laundering. The...

In January 2017, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay US$ 625 million to US and UK financial authorities to settle...