Re:Yotta Bank and the Problem with Fintech (Patrick Boyle) [...
by kiba on Sunday December 01, 2024 @12:28PM
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It's literally just interest rate disguised as prizes. A real bank is handling the money behind the scene and that's where the money is insured.
Re:Yotta Bank and the Problem with Fintech (Patrick Boyle) [...
by jowea on Sunday December 01, 2024 @04:11PM
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I only superficially paid attention to this news but didn't Yotta end up going from "bank with sweepstakes" to "bank with a casino" quite quickly?
Re:Yotta Bank and the Problem with Fintech (Patrick Boyle) [...
by dylan604 on Sunday December 01, 2024 @12:32PM
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Seriously? If it was insured, we wouldn't be in this place of customers losing all of their money. So whoever claimed they were insured lied.
Re:Yotta Bank and the Problem with Fintech (Patrick Boyle) [...
by bot403 on Sunday December 01, 2024 @02:45PM
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The money is insured by the FDIC against bank failure. The actual banks holding the money didn't fail. The money is still there. The problem is its in a big unlabeled pile so they don't know whose money is whose and how much each person has.
Note that fail here has a very specific meaning - as in the banks doesn't have the funds to give you your deposit back. Not fail as is "something went horribly wrong".
After all of that to then find out that the company isn't a bank yet claims FDIC insured while using a 3rd party to handle to the money because they aren't actually licensed for that while still claiming to be a bank? It's so bewildering I'm typing run on sentences