Author: Lucas Peterson
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JJ Entertainment Wants To Acquire FinTech Handcheque!
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JJ Entertainment SE, listed on the Direct Market (MTF) of the Vienna Stock Exchange, is negotiating the takeover of Vienna-based handcheque GmbH, fintech offering a wallet solution. JJ Entertainment SE’s intends to focus on capital market-related advisory services for companies and their shareholders in raising equity and debt capital via…
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J.P. Morgan Backs Indian PayTech Company ISG!
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JP Morgan has invested strategically in leading Indian payments solutions provider In-Solutions Global (ISG). The company processes more than 17 billion transactions annually for its clients through its proprietary GeniusTM Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform. It offers a market-leading stack and scalable capabilities that simplify the payment capture process, resulting in easy…
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Bafin Chief Branson Worries About Shadow Banks And Cryptos!
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Mark Branson, the head of Germany’s financial regulator BaFin has warned of risks to financial stability. Specifically, shadow banks are a thorn in his side because of their rapid growth – and crypto markets, as he explained to journalists in Frankfurt. He is worried about so-called shadow banks and points…
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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…