For financial institutions
For financial institutions
Portfolio evidence for banks, EMIs, acquirers and PSPs.
Financial institutions
The fear
Joint liability and scheme assessments on merchants you cannot see through.
The answer
A screening list of confirmed BINs and descriptors, with API access on engagement, refreshed as operators rotate.
The obligation you carry
- 01 Jan 2026Sweden's payment prohibitions on unlicensed gambling take effect.Binds — Banks and PSPsSource — ICLG — Gambling Laws and Regulations, SwedenScreening list of confirmed BINs and descriptors.
What you cannot see
An illegal operator does not need to move dirty money through you. It needs a clean-looking merchant account inside your portfolio, or inside a partner's. The site sells gambling. The merchant record says general retail. The payment settles anyway.
Underwriting sees the application. Monitoring sees the transaction data the merchant generates. Neither sees the storefront a customer actually reaches at the moment of deposit, which is where the mismatch is visible.
The same blindness applies one layer out. Traffic reaching you through an orchestrator, a payment facilitator or a partner PSP arrives already aggregated, and the descriptor is the only thing you get to read.
The tools to decline, to offboard and to escalate exist. The visibility to aim them does not.
What we supply
The acquiring BIN. The descriptor as it lands. The orchestrator in the middle. The settlement route.
Chain of custody on every artifact. Timestamped, reproducible, formatted for compliance-programme intake.
No intrusion. No scraping behind authentication. We do not induce a merchant to do anything it was not already doing. No payment above a pre-set cap. No contingency fees on evidential work.
How it is delivered
Commissioned investigation — you name the operators, the merchant portfolio or the market. We return forensic dossiers with chain of custody on every artifact. Scoped and priced per engagement.
Continuous coverage — collection across a market or vertical, refreshed as operators rotate shells and descriptors. Delivered as a screening list, with API access on engagement, and dossiers on attach.
Coalition programme — members of an association or a group of licensed operators fund a single programme and share the evidence pool. Shared cost, shared findings.