Home Sitemap All news Inside SL Opinions Finance News feeds Contact
RSS Feed For All Articles
 
Second Life Directory - Second Life Most Popular Directory - SLTopSites.com


Add to Technorati Favorites
Advertisement
Home arrow Business
Business
JT Financial Update for 01/18/08

User Rating: / 6

Written by Arbitrage Wise   
Friday, 18 January 2008

As expected, the $10,000 of capital injection into our Paypal account did not last more than 2 days.  Hopefully, the funds were distributed to those that needed them first.  There have been individuals who notified us that Paypal was not an option for them, and that they would prefer to withdraw their funds in-world.  We will now move forward to bringing in more Linden Dollars into our reserve.  Our target goal will be to bring our Linden reserve up to 4M before opening up the ATM for withdrawals.  We expect this to take approximately 2-3 weeks from today.  We wish that we could move faster to do this, but unfortunately, it takes time to liquidate investments and be able to purchase the large quantity of L$ without incurring significant loss.  Our rough target date for opening our ATMs for withdrawal is around Feb. 1.

At the peak of our business before the announcement of LL’s new policy, we were approaching 100M in deposits.  So far, we have been able to work our liabilities down to approximately 67M in deposits.  We do feel that this is a significant achievement given the short notice.  However, we are only one-third of the way there, and expect that it will take an additional 1-2 months to completely stabilize our business to the point that we can remove the withdrawal limits.  Hopefully, the next 2-3 weeks will show more progress than the last two weeks.

 
JT Financial Update - Paypal Withdrawals

User Rating: / 16

Written by Arbitrage Wise   
Wednesday, 16 January 2008

We have finally been able to see some light in terms of obtaining some additional capital and reserve to offset the current withdrawal requests.  We expect that by Friday January 18, we’ll have approximately $10,000 USD in our Paypal accounts to begin processing withdrawals.  We have also acquired an additional 1.5M in L$ that will allow us to open up our ATMs.  However, we do not plan on opening up ATMs until we have completed the splitting of JTF (SLWallet) and Capex.  While withdrawal limits may be low, possibly as low as 200L per day, we feel that this is a much needed process to show our customers some form of courtesy, and that we’re trying to fulfill our obligations. 

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 January 2008 )
Read more...
 
JT Financial Update for 01/15/08

User Rating: / 15

Written by Arbitrage Wise   
Tuesday, 15 January 2008

After what can only be considered as an interesting week and perhaps the most challenging I've encountered in SL, a much needed weekend break was just what the doctor ordered.  The weekend really gave me a brief respite to reflect upon the current state of our uncommon union, analyze the situation, and outline possibilities for the future - making sure that cooler heads versus rash decisions prevail in our forward strategies. 

With the weekend behind us and some fresh perspective, our support ticket queue has been cleared and new tickets are coming in at a slower rate. Here's a very brief overview of our progress to date, and our tentative short term plan;

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 January 2008 )
Read more...
 
Interview with JT Financial & CapEX Chairman Arbitrage Wise

User Rating: / 11

Written by Arbitrage Wise   
Monday, 14 January 2008

As Posted on Your2ndPlace.com:

I was fortunate enough to get to correspond with Arbitrage Wise, who has been fairly busy since Linden Lab's announcement regarding banking in Second Life. You can follow formal announcements from SLCapEX and JT Financial on their website. Questions are welcome in the comments.

Last Updated ( Monday, 14 January 2008 )
Read more...
 
JT Financial Update for 01/11/08

User Rating: / 11

Written by Arbitrage Wise   
Friday, 11 January 2008

As expected, our reserve of 7.5M has been drained.  We had to disable withdrawals via the ATM in order to help us build up a larger cash reserve.  As of this writing, we have paid out an additional 1.5M via Moneybookers , and have approximately an additional 1M to pay out before our reserve there is drained.  We are also bringing in about 2.5M to our Paypal account, which we feel will arrive by the end of next week, and will post a notice to offer Paypal withdrawals then.  Unfortunately, that is all that we can liquidate at this time.  Within the last 72hours, we have paid out 8M and will continue to do so as liquidity is achieved.  We are hoping to be able to liquidate an additional 2-4M next week, and will most likely offer withdrawals via Paypal since it will take a much longer time to purchase L$.  There is also a possibility that we may be able to liquidate an additional 8-10M by the end of next week, but the possibility of that is unclear and we would rather not depend on that at this time. 

If you have any questions that have not been addressed, please send me an IM (which will be queued in my email) and I will answer and post them in our next update.  No updates will be posted until Monday as we take some time off over the weekends to think of some alternate strategy to alleviate the strain on our cashflow.  Here are some questions that have been asked multiple times, so we’ll try to address them here so that we can direct anyone with the same questions to this update:

When can I withdraw from the ATM again?
We honestly do not have an answer.  The only way for us to obtain more L$ is to purchase them via LindenX or SLX at a fair rate via Paypal.  However, I’m pretty sure that any funds we bring into Paypal will all be paid out immediately for withdrawal requests.  So my honest answer would be that if you need your funds faster, to use Paypal or Moneybookers as the withdrawal method when funds are available.

Last Updated ( Friday, 11 January 2008 )
Read more...
 
SLCN.TV Metanomics special episode - LL Banking Rule.

User Rating: / 2

Written by Cash Yiyuan   
Friday, 11 January 2008

From an announcement at Ancapex.net

 Brautigan Guests on Metanomics

ACE Chair IntLibber Brautigan was a guest on the SLCN.tv program Metanomics, hosted by Beyers Sellers (Professor Robert Bloomfield of Cornell U) today in a special episode covering the new LL Banking Rule.

Other guests included Jillian Barth (Jillian Sayuri Falconi) of Saxo Bank, who hosted the show in the Saxo Bank sim, Travis Ristow of BCX Bank, Benjamin Djuranske of the SL Bar Association, and David Talbot of Technology Review, who wrote a rather sensationalistic story about the victims of the collapse of Ginko Financial, and is credited/blamed for the current LL policy.

Talbot started off by displaying a surprising lack of knowledge about Ginko in general. Discussion moved on to Benjamin Djuranske making a number of inflammatory, hyperbolic and factually unsupported statements which were quickly doused with facts from Travis Ristow and IntLibber. Spectators called the blow-by-blow on the Metanomics group backchat.

It was noted that its unreasonable for LL to insist on bank charters for paying interest on what LL insists is not really money, but a licensed product.

IntLibber went on to talk about how any standard of "sustainable interest" has to be founded in the context of the local SL economy, which grew at 1000% last year.

You can watch the show at SLCN

Last Updated ( Friday, 11 January 2008 )
 
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>

Results 25 - 30 of 709







Lost Password?
No account yet? Register