The table below illustrates all the stolen money processed by Payvision
by Elfriede Sixt
Payvision bv, registered in Amsterdam, is a payment service provider founded in 2002 by Rudolf Booker and his partners to provide payment services for online shops. Payvision has been granted a license as a Payment Institution under the Payment Services Directive (PSD) for the Dutch Central Bank. The PSD is an EU regulation to aide the industry in facilitating transactions across Europe more efficiently and with more transparency. The PSD license is only awarded to organisations that comply with a wide set of rules and obligations to ensure quality and stability of the international payment sector. Payvision enables online shops to accept credit card payments and acts as an acquiring partner for the operating companies (merchants) of the websites. The financial flows go through specially established vehicles 1) such as Stichting Trusted Third Party Payvision and Stichting Trusted Third Party or Acapture. Rudolf Booker was also the CEO of the company until April 2020. The sole beneficial owner of Payvision is now ING Bank. As part of the implementation of its FinTech strategy, ING acquired 75% of the shares in the start-up Payvision in spring 2018 at a valuation of EUR 360 million, based primarily on the highly positive business development of the company. Mehr…