Last month as Wirecard was unraveling the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority temporarily suspended Wirecard Card Solutions (WCS) from operating; this...
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European fintech companies and politicians expect there will be a push for increased regulation of fintech companies in response to...
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has issued new guidance to payment providers and e-money companies on safeguarding customers’ funds; the...
Wirecard has announced that an external law firm is investigating accounting manipulations by a member of the company’s finance team...
The Wall Street Journal provides a picture of Wirecard’s current business, comparing revenue, bank debt, investments and lending over time;...
In this conversation, we chat with Sergey Nazarov. Sergey is Co-founder of Chainlink, the leading decentralized oracle network used by global enterprises & projects at the forefront of the blockchain space.
Chainlink is the industry standard oracle network for powering hybrid smart contracts. Chainlink Decentralized Oracle Networks provide developers with the largest collection of high-quality data sources and secure off-chain computations to expand the capabilities of smart contracts on any blockchain. Managed by a global, decentralized community, Chainlink currently secures billions of dollars in value for smart contracts across decentralized finance (DeFi), insurance, gaming, and other major industries.
More specifically, we touch on what it means to build in DeFi, what Oracles are like, what smart contracts are and what they enable, how all of this works and where the protocol is going, and so much more!
Accounting firm Ernst & Young failed to request bank statements from the Singapore bank that the fintech claimed to have...
Wirecard is a German payments provider that has helped to set up the current boom in fintech and banking apps in Britain; Wirecard is seen as the infrastructure behind many fintech startups that have raised hundreds of millions of pounds in the UK; companies use Wirecard to sublet their banking license and because they are able to issue cards from Visa and Mastercard. Source
McKinsey warned Wirecard to take immediate action on controls in their largest business more than a year ago; the consultancy...