Everywhere we look today, new payment providers or neobanks seem to appear overnight, each promising faster onboarding, lower fees, and better technology. Most companies offering banking or payment solutions today are not based on real user or business needs but rather on the lack of knowledge that users have about how payments and banking actually work. FinTech is business and their sales teams are trained to sell functions which businesses either won’t need or could get elsewhere for a...

Viktoria Soltesz , the Founder of the Soltesz Institute  had a chat with Reagan Cook , a Digital Asset Compliance Expert at TaxBit . The discussion was highlighting what digital asset information reporting really means for Web3 companies, exchanges, payment providers, and traditional financial institutions that already touch crypto in one way or another. The conversation walked through the new global rules around CARF and DAC8, the practical burden on finance and technology teams, the...

Operation Chargeback uncovered one of the most extensive international fraud structures in recent years, and the scale of the case created headlines across the world. The investigation brought together Europol, Eurojust, and law enforcement from multiple countries, with the final coordinated action revealing a criminal network which moved hundreds of millions of euros through shell companies and fake subscriptions - using their highly professional and advanced payment knowledge to achieve the...