Author: Lucas Peterson

  • Five Interesting And Safe PayTechs Of 2022

    Five Interesting And Safe PayTechs Of 2022

    The crypto scene is on alert after the collapse of the third-largest crypto exchange FTX. Allegedly, more than a million people have lost their money. A crisis of confidence has broken out. There is also a crisis in the FinTech segment, where some companies could soon run out of money.…

  • Bafin Director Thorsten Pötzsch: “The Risk Of Getting Caught Has Never Been So High!”

    Bafin Director Thorsten Pötzsch: “The Risk Of Getting Caught Has Never Been So High!”

    After the Wirecard debacle, Germany reorganized BaFin’s regulatory balance sheet control. Thorsten Pötzsch, head of Bafin’s securities regulator, emphasized the new system’s effectiveness at a symposium in Vienna. He referred to discovered accounting errors that auditors had failed to detect.

  • Genius, Guru, Hobbit, Or Fraudster? Who Is Sam Bankman-Fried?

    Genius, Guru, Hobbit, Or Fraudster? Who Is Sam Bankman-Fried?

    On many pictures, Sam Bankman-Fried aka SBF looks like the Hobbit Samwise, aka Sam from the movie The Lord of The Rings. SBF has lost ten billion dollars or 94% of his wealth in just 24 hours, when his crypto exchange FTX crashed. A record. Never before has a billionaire…

  • PayNews42 TV – The Week In Review

    PayNews42 TV – The Week In Review

  • EFRI’s Fight Against Payvision And Its Former Management To Compensate Scam Victims!

    EFRI’s Fight Against Payvision And Its Former Management To Compensate Scam Victims!

    The European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI) filed a criminal complaint against Payvision and its former management, Rudolf Booker, Gijs op de Weegh, Cheng Liem Li. According to EFRI, the Amsterdam-based Fintech and licensed payment processor Payvision has been knowingly and willingly facilitating cybercrime and scams. Thus, Payvision would be liable…

  • PayTech Platform Ping Receives $15 Million!

    PayTech Platform Ping Receives $15 Million!

    Ping, a global payment platform for freelancers and contractors, has received $15 million in a seed funding round. Investors participated in the round, including Y-Combinator, Race Capital, Signum Capital, Goat Capital, Danhua Capital, and BlockTower. The company claims it is now THE global solution for remote workers, contractors, and freelancers.

  • Ukrainian Aid Money May Be Gone In Bankruptcy Of Crypto Exchange FTX!

    Ukrainian Aid Money May Be Gone In Bankruptcy Of Crypto Exchange FTX!

    In March, the Ukrainian government under Volodymyr Selenskyj proudly presented a new way of increasing donations: The crypto exchange FTX was supposed to make more out of 100 million – now FTX is bankrupt. The suspicion: vast sums of aid money are gone.

  • SEC Chair Gary Gensler Launches Investigation Against FTX!

    SEC Chair Gary Gensler Launches Investigation Against FTX!

    Gary Gensler, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), warned the crypto industry, saying, “We need to protect crypto investors. Time is running out!” According to Gensler, the FTX collapse follows the same pattern as the crash of many other crypto platforms. He said that these platforms…

  • Introducing Short-Seller Fraser Perring!

    Introducing Short-Seller Fraser Perring!

    He is certainly not a buddy of managers of listed companies. Fraser Perring (Twitter) is a notorious short seller who repeatedly launches short-selling attacks against companies. He is one of the people behind Viceroy Research LLC, an investigative financial research group registered in Delaware, USA. Perring uses Twitter as a…

  • Twitter Rumors Confirmed? Twitter Payments Registered As A Money Services Business

    Twitter Rumors Confirmed? Twitter Payments Registered As A Money Services Business

    Rumor has it that Musk wants to enrich Twitter with a payment function, transforming it into profitability. Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter has sent the global tech and media scene into a tizzy. Now it was revealed that Twitter indeed has registered with the U.S. FinCen as a…