Fintech: Investigations: Bafin is targeting entrepreneur Julian Hosp’s crypto provider Cakedefi

The financial supervisory authority makes it clear that the platform is not allowed to operate any financial services in Germany. She is now investigating the suspicion of illegal transactions.

Der österreichische Unternehmer und Blockchain-Experte hatte die Plattform Cake Defi im Juni 2019 gegründet. Quelle: Xing / Julian Hosp

Julian Hosp

The Austrian entrepreneur and blockchain expert founded the Cake Defi platform in June 2019. (Foto: Xing / Julian Hosp)

Düsseldorf The German financial regulator Bafin is investigating the crypto project Cake Defi. “The content on the Cake Pte. ltd operated website cakedefi.com justify the assumption that the company illegal banking or financial services in Germany operates,” the agency said in a press release on Friday. At the same time, the Bafin made it clear that the Singapore-based project Cake did not have the license required under the Banking Act to conduct banking business or provide financial services. The well-known Austrian entrepreneur and blockchain expert Julian Hosp is behind the Cake Defi platform, which was founded in June 2019. His crypto company is considered a fast-growing fintech project. It provides access to a wide range of decentralized financial services, or Defi for short, and enables clients to earn returns on their crypto and digital assets.

Cake Defi responded via social media channel Twitter quickly to the Bafin publication: “Today we were made aware of a message on the website of the German supervisory authority Bafin,” said the platform. “We would like to emphasize that we are a Singapore based company and want to reassure our customers that we comply with local laws and regulations,” Cake Defi continued. Top jobs of the day

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When asked by a user what this means for German customers, Cake Defi was relaxed: “No need to worry” was the short message on Twitter. In its press release, Bafin meanwhile advised consumers to invest in the Internet generally for caution and for thorough research “in order to detect fraud attempts in good time”.

Die Finanzaufsicht prüft derzeit, ob die Kryptoplattform Cake Defi unerlaubte Geschäfte in Deutschland betreibt. Quelle: Reuters

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The financial supervisory authority is currently examining whether the Cake Defi crypto platform is conducting unauthorized business in Germany. (Image: Reuters) For Cake Defi Germany is an important market. CEO and co-founder Hosp even described it as one of “our strongest markets” in an interview last summer. Accordingly, uncertainty among German customers could have a noticeable impact on business. Cake-Defi co-founder Hosp is considered to be both dazzling and controversial in the fintech scene. The 35-year-old blockchain expert wanted to offer a crypto money card with the start-up TenX, which was also founded in Singapore, and collected around 80 million dollars from investors in 2017. After a year and a half, he surprisingly withdrew, investors reacted angrily. It also became known in the summer of 2019 that Hosp was once active at the Austrian company Lyoness, which was criticized as a pyramid scheme. Should the Bafin come to the conclusion that Cake Defi is actually engaged in illicit business, the authority has far-reaching powers to prohibit the continuation of operations and to order the existing business to be wound up. More: Wirecard partner TenX in Asia stops working: Investors fear for their money

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