Category: People

  • Premium Salaries: How Much Trade Republic Pays Its Employees!

    Premium Salaries: How Much Trade Republic Pays Its Employees!

    Expect a lot and pay well: The Berlin fintech mainly looks for techies. With seven years of professional experience or more, they can expect a six-figure salary. Certainly, Trade Republic also laid off numerous employees last year but still hires promising people. The startup, founded in 2015 by Christian Hecker, Thomas…

  • Valor PayTech Hires Riaz Ladha And Eric Kirk To Lead A New Business Unit!

    Valor PayTech Hires Riaz Ladha And Eric Kirk To Lead A New Business Unit!

    Valor PayTech has hired “payments veterans” Riaz Ladha and Eric Kirk to lead its new strategic payments business unit. Ladha joins Valor as senior vice president of integrated payments and strategy. He will be responsible for leading the Card-Not-Present (CNP) business unit.

  • Dutch PayTech Company Mollie Promotes CTO Koen Koeppen To CEO!

    Dutch PayTech Company Mollie Promotes CTO Koen Koeppen To CEO!

    Amsterdam-based payment service provider Mollie will appoint its current Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Koen Koeppen, as its new CEO. Koeppen will replace Mollie’s current CEO, Shane Happach, who is leaving the company after about two years to take on a new role in Asia.

  • Investor Peter Thiel Earned Billions With Bitcoin & Co.

    Investor Peter Thiel Earned Billions With Bitcoin & Co.

    Peter Thiel is one of the most controversial investors in Silicon Valley. The circumstances of his sudden exit from Bitcoin are unlikely to change that. Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by the German-born billionaire, earned around $1.8 billion in recent years by exiting the crypto market promptly, according…

  • Introducing One Of The Most Powerful Influencers In Payment Tech: Spiros Margaris!

    Introducing One Of The Most Powerful Influencers In Payment Tech: Spiros Margaris!

    Spiros Margaris acquired more than 127,000 followers on Twitter as a payment tech advisor and keynote speaker on insurtech, artificial intelligence, and fintech.

  • New York Charges Celsius Network Founder Mashinsky With Crypto Fraud!

    New York Charges Celsius Network Founder Mashinsky With Crypto Fraud!

    The New York Attorney General Letitia James filed charges against Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky, alleging that he defrauded investors out of billions of dollars in digital currency by hiding the weak health of his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform. Mashinsky continued to promote Celsius as a safe alternative to banks…

  • The Trail Of Wirecard Head Marsalek Is Lost In Putin’s Neighbourhood!

    The Trail Of Wirecard Head Marsalek Is Lost In Putin’s Neighbourhood!

    The most spectacular fraud in German economic history is the Wirecard bankruptcy. The main defendant is former CEO, Markus Braun. On the other hand, one of the prominent masterminds of the scandal, Jan Marsalek, is living comfortably in Russia.

  • Black Banx! The Fantastic Story Of Another German Fintech Unicorn And Its Billionaire Founder!

    Black Banx! The Fantastic Story Of Another German Fintech Unicorn And Its Billionaire Founder!

    FinTelegram has brought a new report on the fantastic German fintech billionaire Michael Gastauer and his Black Banx. The story is actually really unbelievable, whereas the term “fantastic” in the FinTelegram story was probably meant rather ironic to cynical. In a press release, Black Banx claimed to have more than…

  • Introducing CrowdFunding Evangelist And FinFluencer Jason Best!

    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…

  • Green Light For Criminal Proceedings Against Swiss Crypto Special Investigator Marti!

    Green Light For Criminal Proceedings Against Swiss Crypto Special Investigator Marti!

    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.