---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-25-001133"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RVYL"
cik: "0001419275"
company_name: "RYVYL Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T07:55:33.752095+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RYVYL appoints CFO Oliva and former interim CFO Jones to board; Baer and Laniado resign

## Summary
- Genevieve Baer and Ezra Laniado resigned from board effective Aug 31, 2025; no disagreement with management.
- Company entered advisory agreements with each at $99k/year through Aug 30, 2026.
- CFO George Oliva and former Interim CFO Gene Jones appointed directors on Sept 1, 2025.
- Jones previously led 2021-2022 financial restatements and compliance filings for RYVYL.
- Press release states the company is pivoting toward executing its crypto treasury business model.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-25-001133
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RVYL
- cik: 0001419275
- company_name: RYVYL Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419275/000118518525001133/0001185185-25-001133-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419275/000118518525001133/rvyl8k090425.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-25-001133.txt

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