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Major British Bank Limiting Customer Crypto Payments

This development will likely put more pressure on the battered digital asset industry, which has been struggling to find regulated financial partners. At the same time, Paysafe, an online payment provider, is also winding down its services to UK customers of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, citing the regulatory challenges in the UK. Binance claims that Paysafe's decision will only affect less than 1% of its users.?

FBI warns of spike in ‘pig butchering’ crypto investment schemes

In cryptocurrency scams, the fraudsters will approach victims via dating platforms, messaging apps, or social media platforms to build trust and introduce them to an investment scheme that will eventually allow them to empty the targets' crypto wallets.

These scams have become increasingly sophisticated and are using psychological manipulation to lure more and more victims into parting with their money.

"Criminals coach victims through the investment process, show them fake profits, and encourage victims to invest more," the law enforcement agency?said.

"When victims attempt to withdraw their money, they are told they need to pay a fee or taxes. Victims are unable to get their money back, even if they pay the imposed fees or taxes."

Today's warning comes after the FBI revealed in its annual?Internet Crime Report?that Americans lost more than $3 billion to investment fraud in 2022.

OpenAI Releases New Version of GPT, as Generative AI Tools Continue to Expand

OpenAI says that GPT-4 can achieve ’human-level performance’ on a range of tasks.

“For example, it passes a simulated bar exam with a score around the top 10% of test takers; in contrast, GPT-3.5’s score was around the bottom 10%. We’ve spent 6 months iteratively aligning GPT-4 using lessons from our adversarial testing program as well as ChatGPT, resulting in our best-ever results (though far from perfect) on factuality, steerability, and refusing to go outside of guardrails.”

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A Meta Talkz with The Founder & Director of STATRYS, Bertrand Theaud

What was your journey like to get where you are?

After more than 20 years of working and traveling in Asia, I’ve decided to launch Statrys to solve a very simple yet critical problem:

In a simpler phrases, what is your company exactly doing?

We’re a fast-growing Fintech Company delivering user-friendly, human-centered, and cost-effective payment and FX solutions to Asian SMEs seeking to grow their businesses internationally. Statrys accounts help businesses stay on top of their game.

What about Metaverse are you most excited for in the future?

Commerce opportunities I would say, that the metaverse has the potential to open up a plethora of new options, not just for people’s personal lives but also for the operations of businesses and other types of organizations. Users have the ability to buy and sell almost anything within the metaverse, from virtual real estate and vehicles to products and non-fungible token (NFT) artwork; the possibilities for business are almost literally limitless. When there are more people living in the metaverse, there will be a greater number of opportunities to make sales. This is because there will be more people to buy things from. This is due to the fact that there will be a greater number of people to purchase products from. Because the vast majority of things that can be found in the real world can also be found in the metaverse, no matter what kind of enterprise you run, you have the potential to make a sizeable amount of money by selling your wares in the metaverse. This is because the vast majority of things that can be found in the real world can also be found in the metaverse.

Why should we be paying attention to the Metaverse?

It’s where you’ll find your next clients In my opinion, not only are members of Generation Z and Generation Alpha digital natives, but a significant portion of them are also natives of mixed reality. This is particularly true of Generation Z members. They have spent their entire lives wearing virtual reality headsets and often spend a number of hours at a time in simulated environments such as Fortnite. They have never experienced the real world. There is little doubt that companies that offer financial services will have to travel to the places of their younger clients in order to garner the interest of this generation. In order to do so, these companies will need to be mobile. The time has come for traditional financial institutions as well as fintech companies to begin defining their plans for joining the metaverse. It has been suggested that they put off, at least temporarily, the building of their first bank branch in the metaverse for the time being.

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