Prohibited Businesses and Activities

Weapons of any kind, including but not limited to firearms, ammunition, knives, explosives, or related accessories. This also includes any involvement in the defense sector or in the manufacture or production of arms, military equipment, or weapons of mass destruction — including anti-personnel mines, chemical weapons, cluster munitions, military and dual-use equipment, internal repression equipment, and security and police equipment.

Transactions related to narcotics, prescription drugs, steroids, and paraphernalia or accessories linked to controlled substances are strictly forbidden. This also includes marijuana-related businesses (MRBs), such as manufacturers, dispensers, and those engaged in medical marijuana, including companies whose main source of revenue is derived from this type of activity.

Any involvement in or facilitation of prostitution or sex trafficking is not permitted. This also includes adult entertainment businesses, escort services, and pornographic or sexually explicit products and services, including content or services created, generated, altered, or facilitated through artificial intelligence (AI) or other synthetic media technologies. Any material involving minors or non-consensual content, whether real, AI-generated, synthetic, manipulated, or otherwise, is strictly prohibited without exception.

Gambling Activities: This encompasses various gambling activities such as sports betting, casino games, lotteries, and other forms of chance-based gaming. This also includes unlawful internet gaming companies, their principals, and their payment processors, as well as companies whose main source of revenue is derived from the development of gambling software or hosting environments, as defined in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) and the Prohibition of Funding of Unlawful Internet Gambling (Regulation GG).

Engaging in activities that support money laundering or terrorist financing is strictly prohibited. This also includes customers whose identities are not known or cannot be verified; anonymous or numbered accounts, or customers seeking to maintain an account in an obviously fictitious name; and customers previously exited for financial crime concerns, including customers or related parties where there is a strong suspicion or direct evidence that criminal activity has taken place, where a criminal offence has been committed and charges have been brought, or where there is a suspicion of terrorist financing.

Any form of Ponzi, pyramid, or multi-level marketing program is prohibited.

The sale of goods or services that infringe upon copyright, trademark, or proprietary rights is prohibited.

Transactions involving debt settlement, refinance, or credit repair services are prohibited.

Court-Ordered Payments and Tax Settlements: This includes court-ordered payments, structured settlements, tax payments, or tax settlements.

Transactions involving lottery contracts, layaway systems, or annuities are not allowed.

The sale or purchase of counterfeit goods, including fake or "novelty" IDs, is strictly prohibited.

Activities like wash trading, front-running, insider trading, and other market-based fraud or deceit are not tolerated.

Transactions involving purchases from Tor hidden service markets, "Darknet" markets, or similar platforms offering illegal goods are forbidden.

Any transactions involving sanctioned parties, countries, or coins are prohibited. This includes countries, governments, entities, and individuals subject to sanctions or included in any applicable internal watchlists.

Shell banks — i.e., an entity that has no physical presence in the country in which it is incorporated and licensed, and which is unaffiliated with a regulated financial group that is subject to effective consolidated supervision (Section 313 of the USA PATRIOT Act).

Unlicensed or unregistered Money Services Businesses — i.e., companies offering money or currency exchange, money transfer, cheque cashing, or the issuing or selling of travelers cheques, money orders, or stored value cards that meet the regulatory definition

Verified hackers, and any individual or entity engaged in hacking or unauthorized access to systems, networks, or data.

Crypto ATM providers.

Payday lenders, their owners, and principals.

Shipping and ocean transportation.

Any activity violating the laws and regulations of the countries where Rise operates is prohibited.