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.
The Bamberg case against former AirSoft CEO Shay Benhamou could redefine the liability of white-label software providers in cyber-enabled investment fraud. FinTelegram examines where neutral technology ends and criminal participation begins.
The newly published Payvision chats could become the most damaging documentary evidence yet in Europe’s long-running broker scam scandal. According to EFRI and the cited criminal case files, Payvision did not merely process transactions for Lenhoff and Barak-linked fraud networks — it allegedly helped them solve payment problems, reroute settlements, and survive banking disruption, all while generating lucrative fee income.
FinTelegram has published its DeFi Compliance Perimeter as an evergreen framework for reviewing DeFi brokers, investment schemes, and supporting rails. The goal is simple: to define the new compliance perimeter before the next retail-investor damage cycle scales.
FinTelegram will increasingly focus on DeFi brokers and DeFi investment schemes alongside offshore casinos. The reason is simple: the perimeter game has not disappeared. It has evolved. What binary options and offshore brokers once did through shell structures and payment agents is now being rebuilt through DeFi-branded interfaces, on/off-ramp layers, wallet logic, and outsourced execution rails.