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OpenPayd Founder Ozan Ozerk – Visionary Fintech Founder or High-Risk Enabler?

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Ozan Ozerk is often portrayed in the media—most recently in a flattering Türkiye Today profile—as a visionary Turkish entrepreneur reshaping global finance through his fintech ventures, most notably OpenPayd, EMBank, and Ozan Elektronik Para. But as regulatory actions mount and his companies increasingly surface in investigations tied to high-risk payments, scam facilitation, and money laundering,

Introducing The New Giftcard Platform Giftbull In The Ozan Ozerk Environment!

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According to their website, Giftbull is a brand new UK-based e-gift card and voucher platform providing access to hundreds of e-gift cards and vouchers from popular brands worldwide. Giftbull is operated through Giftbull UK Limited, where Ferdi Ozkurnaz, a Cypriot, is a director. The company is connected to Ozan Ozerk through Secure Processing Holding Ltd, registered in Cyprus. In both companies, his confidant Ferdi Ozkurnaz, a/k/a Ferdi Özkurnaz, serves as a director.

Turkey-Focused Eurotrader Group Appoints Ben Swann As Chief Technology Officer

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CySEC-regulated multi-asset broker Eurotrader Group has appointed Ben Swann as its new Chief Technology Officer. Before joining Eurotrader, he built and managed several retail trading platforms, including City Index, Gain Capital, and MF Global. Eurotrader was founded by Ozan Ozerk, who is also the founder of FCA-regulated Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform operator OpenPayd and the Lithuanian European Merchant Bank (EMBank).

Ozan Ozerk’s Eurotrade Group with CySec-regulated EuroTrader and LQFX

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FinTech entrepreneur Ozan Ozerk is a remarkable man. He has built an impressive empire of regulated and unregulated FinTech companies in various jurisdictions over the last few years. These include European Merchant Bank in Lithuania, Ozan Ödeme Hizmetleri ve Elektronik Para AŞ in Turkey, and several FCA-regulated institutions in the UK. This is the official site of Ozan Ozerk, which he runs through his Akce Group and OpenPayd Group. Then there are his gambling and forex empires.

GNI Leaks – Introducing high-risk payment processor group EMP CORP

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FinTech entrepreneur Ozan Ozerk is a remarkable man. Hee has spent the last 10 years building a FinTech empire around Akce Group that ranges from the Lithuanian-registered European Merchant Bank to the FCA-regulated OpenPayd Group. He has also established processing gift card and voucher companies to process payment transactions of gambling, betting, lotteries, and online casinos for EMP CORP. We have started with the research of EMP CORP. Here is the first part of our reports.

R4I – The AKCE Group, European Merchant Bank, and OpenPayd Group

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The FinTech entrepreneur Ozan Ozerk was born in Nicosia, Northern Cyprus. He moved to Norway. His father is a professor at the University of Oslo's Department of Education and his mother is a senior advisor at an institution specializing in children with learning disabilities. Ozerk is the beneficial owner of the Akce Group and a number of regulated and unregulated FinTech companies in Lithuania, Cyprus, Malta, and the UK. We would like to know more about Akce Group, OpenPayd Group, and its network.

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