Tag: merchant acquiring

The Soft2bet Files raise a question far larger than one casino group: when technology platforms also touch brands, payments, KYC, support, engineering and offshore operators, where does the platform end and the operator begin? FinTelegram compares Soft2Bet and SOFTSWISS as two different groups with different evidence — but strikingly similar compliance architecture.

FinTelegram explains the Zentoria / Spinsopotamia / NALMI case in plain English: how an EU-facing payment and website anchor may sit inside a much wider offshore casino-domain infrastructure. The technical evidence does not prove common ownership, but it challenges the idea that Spinsopotamia is merely an isolated standalone casino site.

Latvijas Banka has issued a payment institution licence to SIA Fibonatix (LV). For FinTelegram, this is not merely a fintech licensing story but a compliance watch event given Fibonatix’s long-documented high-risk payment legacy.

FinTelegram’s review of SENDS has uncovered a new structural red flag: the public-facing website of Smartflow Payments Limited, the FCA-authorised EMI behind SENDS, is owned by a separate UK company, GANGA PAY LTD, and used under a software licence. In isolation, that may be a routine outsourcing arrangement. In the context of SENDS’ rapid acquiring growth, Ukrainian control persons on both sides, and ongoing whistleblower allegations around casino-linked merchant flows, it raises a much sharper compliance question.

The Ukrainian fintech group Fondy raises a difficult compliance question. In the UK, Fondy Ltd is an FCA-authorised EMI with minimal reported turnover and repeated losses. In Austria, its ultimate parent V & A Holding GmbH entered insolvency in Feb 2026. Valeriia Vahorovska and Ronny Pecik are its shareholders. In Ukraine, the NBU cancelled the participation of LLC FC “Alliance”, operating under the Fondy brand, in Visa and Mastercard payment systems after receiving documented information indicating national-security risks.