Michael Roddan
@MichaelRoddan
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Banking reporter @theinformation in NYC ☏/Telegram/WhatsApp/Signal +1 347 864 0601 Former national corro @FinancialReview and roustabout @australian
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Joined October 2012
RT @mjnblack: DOGE is far from Silicon Valley's only DC play. Meet Jim O'Neill, Peter Thiel protégé, far-out biotech investor and RFK Jr's…
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RT @coryweinberg: Cool journalism job opening: Come work with me @theinformation to write about the giant pools of cash moving across the g…
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J.P. Morgan's $917m investment in Greek fintech Viva Wallet has gone so wrong the bank last year offered to sell back half of its stake at a valuation of $175 million, and give up the bank's rights to board seats. New details from a 100-page lawsuit:
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RT @LachCartwright: Some personal news — excited to announce that I'm joining forces with @ravisomaiya to launch Breaker Media. A new publi…
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@Adam_Creighton @australian @TheIPA Great run. Excited to see what you'll do! One of Australia's few remaining heterodox writers and thinkers.
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RT @coryweinberg: New feature from @parismartineau & me: Sniffies has been celebrated for resurrecting gay cruising culture but has few sa…
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A curious yarn🧶 a16z-backed payroll startup Deel dragged into legal dispute involving a Florida Ponzi scheme. There's a scramble for money transmission licenses, an obscure Puerto Rican crypto bank, and alleged breaches of Russia sanctions. Read on 👇
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RT @MarkDiStef: Former PwC and current Carlton boss Luke Sayers is claiming he was “hacked” after a photo of a penis was posted on his feed…
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JPMorgan Files Two Lawsuits in Greece and UK Over Viva Wallet - Bloomberg
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RT @nmasc_: Another abrupt fintech shut down: Benefits provider Level. @coryweinberg & @MichaelRoddan w/ the scoop
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🤖NEW🤖 AI and quantum are very buzzy, and investors are struggling to sort through fact and fiction. @coryweinberg and I took a close look at SandboxAQ, a $6bn startup chaired by Eric Schmidt and run by Jack Hidary, and found some curiosities:
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🤖NEW🤖 AI and quantum are very buzzy, and investors are struggling to sort through fact and fiction. @coryweinberg and I took a close look at SandboxAQ, a $6bn startup chaired by Eric Schmidt and run by Jack Hidary, and found some curiosities:
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RT @DavidJeans2: New: As Silicon Valley leaders decry ‘wokeism,’ I profiled a group called New Founding that says it's at the center of a C…
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RT @Jessicalessin: If my son had a credit card and a laptop, this would be the article that gets him to subscribe to @theinformation. Thril…
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RT @mjnblack: “The millionaire and the general and the priest: What do they all have in common?” asked Peter Thiel this spring. It's a que…
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Interesting 'Couriers collected physical cash from criminals in one country in exchange for cryptocurrency, with Tether most favoured. Cash rich cocaine kingpins simultaneously helped Russian cyber criminals and elites launder stolen crypto while evading western sanctions.'
UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies
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Interesting story. Brazil’s "first CryptoBank" allegedly laundered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of dirty money for Brazil’s most notorious drug gang — First Capital Command, or PCC — and funneled cash into political campaigns.
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