Tag: Gripeo

Last week DB Investing trumpeted a “strategic partnership” with KYC vendor Sumsub. In reality, adding an off-the-shelf AML tool is hardly headline material; hundreds of brokers do it every day. The publicity blast looked less like real news and more like image-laundering for a man whose broker stable has ping-ponged across regulators, shells and continents for nearly two decades.

FinTelegram has already reported on Italian boiler room operator and multi-entrepreneur Gennaro Lanza's battle with the review platform Gripeo. Lanza is also no stranger to FinTelegram. He loves to file DMCA complaints with Google against critical reviews to remove them from the search results. He feels blackmailed by Gripeo and the reputation protection platform Eliminalia and Russian agents, he says in the complaints.