Trump Family to Sell AI Financial Business for $15M
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: 4 hours ago
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A year ago, the Trump family's crypto venture bought an AI Financial (AIFC) for $750M and, since then, the deal has been a money loser for most excluding the Trumps, Angus Berwick of The Wall Street Journal reports. AI Financial is now in discussions to sell its core business to Perpetuals.com (PDC), with the price being discussed as up to $15M, a person familiar with the transaction told the Journal. The potential sale would mark a reversal for the company, since World Liberty Financial had originally promoted it as key to its plans to turn into an industry contender.
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About AIFC
ALT5 Sigma Corporation is a fintech company providing blockchain-powered technologies for tokenization, trading, clearing settlement, payment and safe keeping of digital assets. The Company, through its subsidiary, ALT5 Sigma, Inc., provides blockchain-powered technologies to enable migration to a global financial paradigm. It offers two platforms to its customers: ALT5 Pay and ALT5 Prime. ALT5 Pay is a cryptocurrency payment gateway that enables registered and approved global merchants to accept and make cryptocurrency payments or to integrate the ALT5 Pay payment platform into their application or operations using the plugin with WooCommerce and or ALT5 Pay's checkout widgets and APIs. ALT5 Prime is an electronic over-the-counter trading platform that enables registered and approved customers to buy and sell digital assets. The Company also owns Mswipe, which is a payment solutions provider offering multi-currency, fiat payment card services along with crypto-enabled capabilities.
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Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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