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SpotOption

SpotOption’s office is located in Moshe Aviv Tower, on right.
Industry	Gambling and binary options
Founded	2010, 2011 or 2016 (uncertain)
Founder	Pinchas Peterktzishvilly also known as Pini Peter
Headquarters	Ramat Gan, Israel
Key people	Moshe Avrahami, CEO[1]
Production output	$5 billion in trades (claimed) (2015[2])
Services	Backend for 300 affiliates
Number of employees	150 (2016)

SpotOption
was a privately held platform software provider based in Israel in the controversial binary option manufacture, which was banned in Israel starting in January 2018.^[3]
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The firm appear that it has left the binary options business and is exploring other possibilities.^[5]
It had previously announced a downsizing of its operations in Israel and moving many functions to other locations.^[6]
The house claimed to have 70 percent share in the market for binary options platforms, and charged binary options firms up to 12.five% of their revenues.^[iv]

The firm’s office in Ramat Gan was raided in a joint functioning betwixt the Israel Constabulary and FBI in Jan 2018. The FBI was searching for show in the case of Lee Elbaz. Elbaz, CEO of Yukom, a binary options banker, was accused of fraud. She was convicted of three counts of wire fraud and i count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in August 2019, and in Dec 2019 sentenced to 22 years in federal prison. As of March 2020 restitution to victims was still being decided but a figure of $28 meg was being considered.^[7]

Pini Peter, possessor of SpotOption said his company has left the binary options business and “I’m considering closing the company downward altogether.”^[8]

On 30 Jan 2018 Facebook banned advertisements for binary options trading equally well as for cryptocurrencies and initial coin offering (ICOs).^[9]
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Founding

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Sources disagree on the founding of the visitor. Bloomberg reports “Spot Option” at 7 Jabotinsky, Ramat Gan, Israel, was founded in 2011;^[11]
a location consequent with information from Companies House in the United kingdom which list a founding date of 2016.^[12]

The nonprofit public interest news system
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
reports a unit of measurement in Israel actualization in 2010.^[2]
They besides report that the founder and primary shareholder is Pinchas Peterktzishvilly, also known as Pini Peter, who was convicted on money laundering charges in 2005.^[13]
According to an advertisement for Banc De Binary, its CEO Oren Shabat Laurent was a founder of SpotOption.^[fourteen]
Oren himself was embroiled in significant controversy surrounding hiring experts to obfuscate the truth almost Banc de Binary and SpotOption’s chapter funnel online;^[15]
which finer sees the latter create a range of affiliate funnel online products such as auto-traders, which in plow lure new depositors into placing funds at Spot Option’due south tied agents and brands.

Market positioning and controversy

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The business firm claims that two thirds of the binary option dealers effectually the world use SpotOption, and that the firm has $5 billion annual trading book. In 2015, the company’south one-time CEO, Ran Amiran, said “SpotOption is the manufacture”.^[2]
SpotOption and TechFinancials together supply trading applied science to brokers with claimed $8 billion annual turnover.^[sixteen]
SpotOption supplied brokerages including the now defunct Banc De Binary, formerly SpotOption’southward biggest client,^[2]
and smaller brokerages including itrader,^[17]
BDSwiss,^[18]
OptionRally, Webitrader, and FXDD.^[19]

In 2016, SpotOption claimed 300 brands or affiliates.^[twenty]
among them are:

• Banc de Binary, one time SpotOption’south largest customer, shut downward in January 2017 after being fined or prohibited from operating in multiple countries on three continents.^{[21]
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• BD Swiss, as well known as Banc de Swiss, a licensed brand of Keplero Holdings Ltd, fined €150,000 in December 2016 by CySEC, the Republic of cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission.^{[23]
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  BD Swiss has addresses in Republic of cyprus and Germany, but not Switzerland.
• The demise via self-inflicted gunshot wound of Canadian entrepreneur, Fred Turbide, was attributed to Spot Selection powered 23Traders.com brand.^[25]

Co-ordinate to the
Agency of Investigative Journalism, “PowerPoint presentations posted online by Hong Kong-based SpotOption sales manager Thomas Chang in 2016 and former Heart E sales manager Fakhri Husseini in 2013 told potential brokers that simply 20% of people who invest in binary options ever become any money dorsum afterward signing up.”^[2]
SpotOption exhibited at the IFX Expo International held in Republic of cyprus in May 2016. Their director of marketing, Tammy Levy, when asked nigh crackdowns past law enforcement, was quoted as saying “SpotOption is a engineering visitor, okay? Anybody is responsible for checking regulation in the jurisdiction where they want to work. I am here to tell you what options you lot have technologically.”^[3]

In June 2021, a film was submitted as evidence in a ceremonious case in Tel Aviv District Courtroom alleging that a SpotOption insider revealed a fraudulent binary options scheme.^[26]

Gambling using binary options

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At the 2011 iGaming Super Show, the visitor showed its platform to traditional gaming vendors, claiming it was compatible with manufacture regulations and assisting for operators. Peterktzishvilly (Pini Peter) said they intended “to bridge the forex and gaming industries”.^[27]
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The company appeared at numerous gambling manufacture trade shows including ICE Totally Gaming in London in 2014^[29]
and the American Gaming Association’s Global Gaming Expo Asia 2015 in Macao, calling itself creator of “the perfect fiscal game”.^[30]

In May 2015, SpotOption launched its new Spot5 platform that would include new instruments called “digital contracts”.^[31]
These were adult in society to meet new regulatory requirements. On 23 Baronial 2017, the company announced their intention to launch a blockchain based trading platform for binary options called SpotChain, a new product which will raise money from the crowds to fund their operations.^[32]

References

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Farther reading

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• “FBI arrests Israeli binary options CEO equally she disembarks El Al flying at JFK”.
  The Times of Israel. 24 September 2017. Retrieved
  25 September
  2017.
  
• Weinglass, Simona; Wootliff, Raoul (25 November 2019). “Much-hyped cryptocurrency website goes bust, revealing ties to binary options”.
  The Times of Israel
  . Retrieved
  25 November
  2019.
  

External links

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• 
  Official website