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Crypto

May 26, 2023

U.S. Crypto Exchange Coinbase Signed Cooperation Agreement With Austrian Bitpanda.

The U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase is under pressure in its home market USA. Not only the crypto crash in 2022 but, above all, the legal dispute with the influential U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is putting pressure on the company. Now, the European market, which will be regulated by MiCA in 2024, is increasingly on Coinbase radar. It plans to cooperate with the Austrian crypto player Bitpanda in the European market.

High-risk payment processors

January 14, 2023

Visa Welcomes High-Risk Payment Processor Payabl In Direct Preferred Partner Program!

Cyprus-based high-risk payment processor Payabl has become the latest addition to the Visa Direct Preferred Partner Program, PaymentExpert reports. The membership will provide Payabl access to Visa’s tools to improve real-time payment solutions. There is an intense discussion on Twitter about the payment processor specializing in porn and gambling and its founders, Ruediger Trautmann and Dietmar Knoechelmann. The company recorded a 182% YoY growth with its high-risk merchants.

January 11, 2023

Interesting! Visa Cuddles Up With High-Risk Payment Processor Payabl Despite PornHub Causa!

In August 2022, Visa and Mastercard suspended card payments for TrafficJunky, the advertisement arm of MindGeek, owner of the website PornHub, after a lawsuit raised questions over whether the payment firms have facilitated monetizing child porn and sex trafficking. A federal judge in California rejected Visa's motion to dismiss a lawsuit by a woman who alleges the company facilitated the distribution of child porno on PornHub and other websites run by MindGeek.

FinTelegram

August 10, 2022

Mastercard And Discoer May Also Be Sued In The PornHub Court Battle [Video]

In a recent interview by attorney Lauren Tabaksblat, one of the two Brown Rudnick partners leading the case against Visa and the Pornhub operator MindGeek warned Mastercard and Discover that they would be sued as well. In a landslide ruling last week, a U.S. judge said that Visa may have helped Pornhub “monetize child porn.” Since then, Visa and the credit card companies have not been able to escape criticism. They would knowingly and willingly support illegal activities like child porn with their payment services.

August 8, 2022

Cold Case Review: Disgraced Israeli Payment Processor Bruc Bond And Its Binary Options Legacy!

It is a cold case now but still not resolved! Between 2018 and 2020, FinTelegram exposed that a group of Israeli payment processors controlled by Eyal Nachum and his partner Tamir Zoltovsky facilitated binary options and broker scams big style. They worked with entities in Montenegro or the Marshall Islands and with the regulated e-Money Institutions Bruc Bond (previously Moneta International) and International FinTech. In April 2020, the Bank of Lithuania revoked Bruc Bond's EMI license; consequently, the group vanished from Europe, but their scam-facilitating activities remain to be investigated.

July 31, 2022

Groundbreaking Ruling: U.S. Judges Sees Visa As A Facilitator Of Child Porn And Sex Trafficking!

FinTelegram has always argued that payment processors are liable for their clients' crimes if they knowingly and wilfully facilitate them. A U.S.judge ruled Friday that Visa helped Pornhub “monetize child porn” a decision that could have long-lasting implications for credit card networks and payment processors. The court denied Visa’s motion to be dismissed from a lawsuit against Pornhub operator MindGeek. The ruling states that there was enough evidence to show Visa knowingly facilitated the crime by providing tools to complete the crime” of distributing child pornography.

June 9, 2022

FinTech CEO Anne Boden Calls Crypto A Threat To Our Financial System!

Anne Boden, founder and CEO of the Goldman Sachs-backed UK FinTech Starling Bank has doubled down on criticisms of crypto, calling digital currencies a threat to the safety of payment infrastructure. Cryptocurrencies are a threat to the safety of our payment schemes and very dangerous, she said at the Money 20/20 fintech conference in Amsterdam. Starling Bank offers fee-free checking accounts and loans through an app. The firm was last privately valued at $3.1 billion and counts the likes of Goldman and Fidelity as investors.

Fintech

May 3, 2020

The European FinTech Shakeup – Cypriot e-Money Institution iSignthis suspended by Visa

The problems of European FinTechs with regulatory authorities are currently almost endless. Now the Australian iSignthis also seems to have problems with AML. At least its Cyprus-based subsidiary iSignthis eMoney Ltd, an e-Money Institution regulated by the Central Bank of Cypris is currently suspended in the VISA network because of AML problems. Allegedly only a formal error says CEO John Karantzis.