* Residency: South Asia
* Personal [Not a Business]
* Forex Affiliate/IB of regulated Ausie broker
* Monthly WISE withdrawals since 1 year
* Transfer Funds from WISE to IBKR monthly
* Buy & Hold ETFs under IBKR
Should I move to Bankera from WISE?
Is Bankera to IBKR transfer safe?
I refrain from the evaluation of Bankera as (IMO) I do not possess enough of information; but Wise is not safe for any other (personal) use case than you work as a porter, pay for your groceries and from time to time send some amount to your parents somewhere. Running away is recommendable.
Honestly, I consider it off-topic for this thread – but feel free to start another one; just it would be fruitful to specify what EMIs/neobanks are of your interest 😉, there are hundreds of...
lol...you think he participated in the Bankera ICO back in 2017?smi(&%.
I wonder where the $100m they raised via that ICO has gone. Surely they didn't use it all to buy that Vanuatu bank ns2.
I mean does Bankera still own Spectrocoin? With crypto lending platforms blowing up how is that crypto lending business doing these days?
I think Bankera financials are needed before comparing them to a UK exchange listed transparent company like Wise. They could be close to going out of business or even the next EPB or Celsius....lol.
Yes I participated in that pre-ICO and also some other︀ ICO's. Not impressed with ICO results, but the company is not gone and developing.
About services I cannot complain much
Do they give you any quarterly update like number of new users or basic financials? After all your an investor entitled to this information. Or have they embezzled all the money raised? If you don't get financials you end up with Euro Pacific Bank situation all over again.
I also ask because its relevant to determine if the company is safe or not. I know of a EU bank with a tenth of that capital start up around the same time and it is profitable right now.
P.S Right now without︀ financials I would tell people to stay well away from this EMI that owns a︁ Vanuatu bank and also a crypto lending platform spectrocoin.
While you can't find financial statements as clear and transparent as Wise's, the Bank of Lithuania does publish performance indicators on their website https://www.lb.lt/en/emi-performance-indicators
As of Q2 2022, Pervesk (the licensed entity behind Bankera and Spectrocoin) has deposits of around 45 million EUR and their income was 1.7 million EUR.
The same numbers for ConnectPay for the same period were 175 million EUR deposits and 3.7 million EUR income and for Paysera 414 million EUR deposits and 5.6 million EUR income.
A closer comparison to Pervesk would be Zen.com with nearly identical deposits (47 million EUR) but 11.2 million EUR in income. Or Simplex, with︀ 51 million EUR in deposits and 25 million EUR.
The by far biggest in Revolut︁ with 4 billion EUR deposits and 191 million EUR income. This is only Revolut the︂ EMI, not Revolut the bank (currently holding around 2 billion EUR in deposits).