Investigations

March 7, 2025

Lawsuit puts Checkout.com's ties to adult entertainment industry in spotlight

An ongoing lawsuit threatens to dredge up Checkout.com's relationship to ‘vice’ industries, by linking it to a mysterious Cypriot entity


Tom Matsuda and Freya Pratty

5 min read

Guillaume Pousaz, CEO of Checkout.com

Checkout.com founder Guillaume Pousaz has long found questions about the fintech's relationship with adult websites “annoying,” as he put it in a 2020 interview with Sifted. 

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Tom Matsuda

Tom Matsuda is a fintech reporter at Sifted and writes our weekly fintech newsletter. Find him on X and LinkedIn

Freya Pratty

Freya Pratty is a senior reporter and investigations lead at Sifted. Follow her on X , LinkedIn and Bluesky

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