In addition to the acquiring bank, issuing bank, and card association, the merchant frequently employs the services of a payment processor to facilitate this process and act as the technical interface between the merchant and the payment system. Here you will find a list of the payment processors working with
Pls note: We had to take the list of lawyers working for organizations showing up in cybercrime files offline because BINDER & GRÖSSWANG Rechtsanwälte GmbH (in charge is MMag. Thomas Hartl), asked for a preliminary injunction against EFRI for publishing this list. BINDER & GRÖSSWANG Rechtsanwälte GmbH, a Vienna law
EFRI always was convinced that payment companies like PAYVISION or Wirecard willingly and knowingly process illegal transactions for Cybercriminals are to be held accountable. The European supervisory authorities massively fail to do this job. So victims have to go legally against the fraud-enabling payment processors. EFRI supports victims that filed
Crypto Exchange Management Scam involved Supervisory authority/FIU Moon Pay Limited Ivan SOTO-WRIGHT, Victor FARAMOND Bybit, Knight Service Group Malta Financial Services Authority rejected authorization Simplex Payment Services UAB Nimrod LEHAVI Bybit Bank of Lithunia MoneyAmber UAB; MoneyMaple Tech LTD. MoneySwap OÜ Aleksandr Vasilev, Petr Kozyakov, Antons Blohins Glaremarkets, CryptoDock, AMarkets
Over the last decades, the world has witnessed increasingly massive cybercrime attacks across borders. These crimes are very often facilitated by supervised financial entities, crypto exchanges. With the European financial supervisory authorities being very reluctant to take decisive action against payment companies involved in fraud scams, the harm done continues
During the past four years, the European Commission worked on legislative initiatives to upgrade the EU’s digital services rules: the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The Digital Services Act is aimed to establish a new set of obligations for hosting services, marketplaces, and online platforms
Over the last months, the EU regulators and the United States started to develop crypto asset regulations and frameworks that (are intended) to promote innovation and growth while protecting investors. Let us report on the most recent and important events here. . MiCA as part of the Digital Finance Package
Crypto scams are a plague Although we are in a crypto winter with the crash on the markets also driving down the crypto valuations, we still receive emails from victims telling us about the scammers trying to convince them to invest in promising crypto ventures. So Crypto scams are still
The phasing out process of PAYVISION ends today (June 30, 2022)! On October 28, 2021, ING announced that it would start phasing out the business activities of its subsidiary PAYVISION as a payment service provider (PSP) and acquirer. According to the announcement, this was done after a thorough evaluation of
Administrative fines and bans for Maxigrid Ltd Finally, on June 17th 2022, The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) took action against Maxigrid Ltd. It announced administrative fines totalling € 210,000 and bans against four exercising directors for management functions in Cyprus Investment Firms (C.I.F.s). In specific, CySEC imposed the
EFRI is the abbreviation for European Funds Recovery Initiative. The legal entity behind this Initiative is a not-for-profit organisation (EFRI-Association) registered in Vienna, Austria. Here you can read the statutes of the not-for-profit organization. Read More
