Tag: open-banking

PlatinCasino is an offshore casino without regulatory permission in the UK or the EU. Its cashier labels a deposit option “Sofort,” but our testing indicates a very different mechanism: an open-banking style bank-selection and authorization flow via secure.bankgate.io, leading into a user’s bank (e.g., Revolut) to approve a third party.

Our PlatinCasino review indicates that the casino’s “Sofort” deposit option is not Klarna’s Sofort in the traditional sense, but a bank-to-bank open-banking rail that runs through secure.bankgate.io, a gateway branded to SALTEDGE (Salt Edge Limited). The flow redirects users into Revolut’s Open Banking authorization.

FinTelegram’s casino mystery-shopping and payment-stack reviews keep surfacing the same pattern: Revolut appears as a funding option for offshore casinos that seem accessible from restricted EU markets, with deposits executed via open-banking “pay-by-bank” flows. We ask players and whistleblowers for additional information.

FinTelegram’s latest compliance analysis flags Contiant Ltd (Bulgaria) as a payment “technical service provider” (TSP) sitting in front of Yapily Connect UAB (licensed/authorized PSD2 rail), enabling account-to-account “pay-by-bank” deposits into offshore casino brands that appear to target restricted markets—most notably the Netherlands.