Month: December 2022
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New on PayRate42: FCA-Regulated Rapyd Included In Orange Compliance List!
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The CyberRating agency has analyzed the FCA-authorized E-Money Institute Rapyd and added it to its Orange Compliance list. Founded by Israeli Arik Shtilman, Arkady Karpman, and Omer Priel in 2015 as CashDash and later renamed Rapyd, the institute not only has an abysmal Trustpilot rating according to PayRate42’s findings, but…
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The Art Of Dropping: Donald Trump’s NFT Trading Cards Sell Out And Raise Over $5 Million!
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Donald Trump’s Trading Cards NFT has been mocked. But the former U.S. president has had the last laugh. He may even have taught the digital asset community a valuable lesson. All 45,000 Donald Trump Trading Card NFTs sold in 12 hours, and people have spent millions trading them on the…
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Introducing CrowdFunding Evangelist And FinFluencer Jason Best!
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Jason Best (LinkedIn) is the co-founder and managing partner of Vectr Fintech Partners (VFP), a globally focused early-stage fintech venture capital firm based in San Francisco and Hong Kong. They bring over 20 years of experience as fintech founders, more than seven years of experience working on fintech policy and…
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Sex Trafficking, Abuse, Fraud: Fugitive “Girls Do Porn” Operator Caught In Spain!
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Michael Pratt had absconded from the U.S. in 2019 while a case was ongoing and was among the “top 10” on the FBI’s wanted list. X-Mas started earlier this year for the victims of “Girls Do Porn”. That’s what the lawyer for the 22 plaintiffs who took legal action against…
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EU Corruption Scandal: Eva Kaili’s Pre-Trial Detention Extended Despite Her Partial Confession!
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Eva Kaili, the former vice president of the European Parliament admitted to instructing her father to hide large amounts of cash. The Greek member of the European parliament at the center of a cash-for-influence scandal implicating Qatar will remain in jail pending trial, a Belgian court has decided on Thursday.…
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FTX Case Update: The $250M Bail And The Key Witness Caroline Ellison!
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Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the FTX founder and former CEO was extradited to the U.S. from the Bahamas and brought before the court. He was released on $250 million bail. Earlier, his former partners and alleged accomplices in the FTX fraud, Caroline Ellison, and Gary Wang, pleaded guilty and announced their…
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Serious Accusations: North Korea Has Hacked $1.2 Billion In Cryptocurrencies And Other Assets For Its Economy!
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North Korean hackers allegedly have stolen an estimated 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets over the past five years, more than half of them this year alone, South Korea’s spy agency said Thursday. Experts and officials say North Korea has turned to crypto-hacking and other…
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Binance Digs Into Voyager Insolvency!
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Binance offers about one billion dollars for the assets of the insolvent crypto lender Voyager Ditigal. However, the deal still needs court approval. Voyager will seek to return crypto to its customers in tokens. The Binance deal values Voyager’s crypto portfolio at just over $1 billion. The deal still needs…
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SEC Charges Former CEO Of Biotech Company CytoDyn With Fraud And Insider Trading!
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Nader Pourhassan, the former CEO of CytoDyn Inc., with fraud and insider trading for misleading shareholders about the progress of a clinical research treatment for COVID-19 and HIV. According to the SEC complaint, Pourhassan repeatedly issued press releases exaggerating CytoDyn’s progress on leronlimab, an…
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Green Light For Criminal Proceedings Against Swiss Crypto Special Investigator Marti!
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Criminal proceedings may be conducted against Peter Marti, the special investigator in the leak of the federal crypto affair. The Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) has given the go-ahead for this because it cannot be ruled out that the criminal offences Marti is accused of have been committed.