Wise Under Investigation for €500M: Is your Money Safe?
Wise is under criminal investigation, but the bigger risk is what happens when fintechs tighten compliance and your business depends on a single account. This video explains the investigation, the pressure on EMIs and the layered banking structure international businesses use to reduce concentration risk.
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And as usual, this doesn't mean that you need to be involved into fraud so that this affects you. What typically needs to happen is that the algorithm just flags your account as a higher risk account and we've been talking about this many times. A crypto payment, a US LLC without real substance, a balance account that's too high, all of these things flag the algorithm. And this is the bigger picture of it and the bigger problem. Wise is definitely not the last EMI in the European Union that's going to go through this new enforcement framework. So, this means if your offshore structure and your business relies on a single account like Wise or something similar, you have a single point of failure that we need to address. One compliance freeze and your entire payroll stops, the way that you pay to your suppliers stops, and potentially your entire business treasury is frozen. That's not bad luck though, you can rearrange that with a system and therefore it is fixable.
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