The latest public record around U.S. high-risk processor T1 Payments and its founder and former CEO Donald Kasdon points not to a comeback, but to a deepening post-collapse aftermath. Court records show that T1’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy was treated as closed by June 10, 2025, that stayed merchant cases began moving again, and that one related action ended in a March 30, 2026 default judgment against T1.
A federal judge in California has refused to dismiss two lawsuits accusing the U.S. fintech Block Inc. (Square/Cash App) and senior leadership of compliance-related misstatements and oversight failures. The rulings keep an investor class action and a separate shareholder derivative case on track—turning Block’s compliance narrative into a courtroom test of governance, controls, and accountability.