Who we work alongside, and what that actually means
Partnerships on this page are listed for one reason: they describe a working relationship that helps a reader check a broker, a payment route, or a document trail. We name the type of cooperation, the field it covers, and the limits of what a partner does and does not do. No logos are borrowed to imply endorsement, and no partner is presented as a regulator, a bank, or a recovery service.
Most of the cooperation behind this site is unglamorous. It is data sharing with consumer advisory desks, editorial review by people who handle dispute paperwork daily, and cross-checks with anti-fraud researchers who track cloned broker domains. Each relationship below is scoped: a partner contributes a specific kind of input, and that input is labelled as such.
If a partner's role changes or a cooperation ends, the entry is removed rather than left standing as a stale trust signal. That is the whole point of keeping this list short.
Consumer advisory desks
Independent advice services that handle card and transfer complaints. They share anonymised case patterns with us, and we publish the recurring warning signs that come out of those patterns. They do not review our articles, and we do not route readers to them as a service.
Anti-fraud research groups
Small research teams tracking cloned broker domains, reused registration numbers, and recycled account-manager scripts. We cite their domain lists when explaining how a fake platform is assembled. Their findings are treated as leads, not verdicts.
Dispute documentation reviewers
Practitioners who read chargeback files for a living and review our checklists for accuracy: what a card issuer expects, which timestamps matter, how a chat log should be exported. They flag wording that could be read as a promise of outcome.
Financial literacy publishers
Editors and trainers who reuse our plain-language explanations of chargebacks, recalls, and payment routes in workshops. The material is shared under the same neutral framing: describe the process, name the deadlines, avoid guarantees.
Payment-route specialists
People who work with card scheme rules and bank recall procedures and check that our comparison of dispute routes stays current. Their input is limited to process accuracy, not to case handling or advice on individual claims.
A listed cooperation is not a certification, an approval, or a statement about any specific claim. If you are checking whether a platform is legitimate, start with the warning signs and the evidence checklist, then speak to your own bank or card issuer about the route that applies to your payment.