July 27, 2025 @ 6:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  JPMorgan’s plans for data tariffs, which run contrary to a growing move to open data, threaten to kneecap Fintechs. Luckily, many industry participants, led by Fintech Sandbox, see a more collaborative path where everybody wins. Co-founder Sarah Biller said that, like most businesses, Fintech… Read More

July 26, 2025 @ 1:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While online fraud for companies has long been synonymous with payment fraud and account takeovers, a new wave of threats is gaining ground, led by first-party chargeback fraud, refund abuse, and, increasingly, AI-powered attacks. Nearly half of merchants, 47%, report a rise in fraud perpetrated by… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 12:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Quranium, a quantum-secure Layer 1 blockchain, has announced a strategic alliance with Swiss-based Abatis, a provider of patented cybersecurity technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Quranium will integrate Abatis’s endpoint protection technology into its infrastructure stack. This includes software wallets, validator nodes, client platforms,… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 12:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

President Donald Trump may be turning up the heat on the Federal Reserve, but he won’t dare pull the trigger on Chair Jerome Powell’s job because the market reaction would be immediate, brutal, and global, deVere Group CEO Nigel Green suggests. This week’s planned visit… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 8:42 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly contemplating a sale of the country’s confiscated Bitcoin stash—some 61,000 BTC seized in a 2018 fraud bust—to alleviate an estimated £20 billion fiscal shortfall. But while offloading crypto could offer short-term relief, Nigel Green, the CEO of global financial advisory… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 12:45 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Socure, a digital identity verification platform, has launched its Workforce Verification solution to address the rapidly growing threat of employee fraud. Socure’s Workforce Verification adapts its enterprise-grade identity verification and fraud prevention specific to hiring workflows, detecting manipulated or fabricated identities before they enter organizations and addressing workforce risk at… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 10:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

With the average 30-year mortgage rate in the United States continuing to hover near recent highs of 6.8%, homeowners might be expected to feel some tension with their mortgage company. However, high rates alone do not explain why customer satisfaction scores for mortgage servicers are significantly… Read More

July 23, 2025 @ 11:56 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Parfin CEO Marcus Viriato recently shared his thoughts on several key issues facing stablecoins in the weeks ahead. Is the U.S. House of Representatives’ ‘Crypto Week’ a signal to both the traditional finance and Fintech industries that we’re almost over the final hurdle to mass… Read More

July 23, 2025 @ 8:36 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitlayer’s BitVM Bridge has officially launched on Mainnet. As the first functional application based on the BitVM paradigm, Bitlayer BitVM Bridge delivers a trust-minimized bridging solution for Bitcoin holders, addressing critical demands as Bitcoin DeFi scales toward maturity. By eliminating reliance on centralized intermediaries, the… Read More

July 20, 2025 @ 8:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Web3 community had plenty to say on all things crypto this week. Continue reading to learn more. APAC, not the US, is crypto’s growth engine “Bitcoin’s price surge is more than just a market cycle—it’s a clear signal of growing institutional conviction. This institutional… Read More

July 19, 2025 @ 11:23 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CEOs Michael Carbonara of Ibanera and Nigel Green of deVere Group weighed in on the GENIUS Act and the Clarity Act. “The GENIUS and Clarity Acts represent a long-overdue inflection point for digital finance in the United States. For years, innovation has outpaced regulation, forcing… Read More

July 19, 2025 @ 11:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Highnote, a platform for embedded finance and modern card issuance, this week announced the launch of Instant Payments, a new capability that enables businesses to deliver near real-time payouts from Highnote-issued cards to eligible external debit and prepaid cards. The solution is supported by Mastercard Move (Mastercard’s portfolio… Read More

July 18, 2025 @ 1:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Windare Ventures, Barclays, and other institutional investors back Heka’s AI engine as financial institutions seek stronger defences against synthetic fraud and identity manipulation. The investors chipped in a total of $14 million. Funds will assist with U.S. expansion. Consumer fraud is at an all-time high. Last year, losses hit $12.5… Read More

July 18, 2025 @ 10:10 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The FICO European Fraud Map 2024 has revealed a worrying trend of rising card fraud levels and losses across the continent. The data from Euromonitor International on 18 countries shows that card-not-present fraud dominates card fraud losses and has increased across most countries. E-commerce fraud, e-wallet, social… Read More

July 18, 2025 @ 7:17 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Core Foundation, the organization behind Core blockchain, an EVM-compatible BTC staking protocol, this week introduced Rev+, a protocol-level revenue-sharing program that directly rewards developers, stablecoin issuers, and DAOs for creating real user value. Instead of forcing builders to launch unnecessary tokens or structure governance… Read More

July 13, 2025 @ 4:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Payfinia, an independent payment services firm providing an open payments framework, is partnering with Early Warning Services to offer Paze, an online checkout solution developed by Early Warning Services and offered by banks and credit unions. Star One Credit Union, one of the nation’s largest credit… Read More

July 12, 2025 @ 2:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stablecoins, meme coins, Bitcoin, and a crowdfunding resurgence are on the minds of the Web3 community this week. Regulatory clarity = Stablecoin adoption “Increased regulatory clarity for stablecoins will increase adoption and bring in high-quality competitors. Stablecoins are the foundation that will bring consumers, investors,… Read More

July 12, 2025 @ 12:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Tanssi Network, a decentralized infrastructure protocol for institutional-grade appchains, has officially launched its mainnet. The platform seeks to enable Fintech companies, RWA projects, and other blockchain applications to deploy fully customizable, Ethereum-secured appchains. Tanssi has already supported the deployment of more than 3,000 appchains and… Read More

July 12, 2025 @ 8:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Sonatype, a software supply chain security company, this week released the Q2 2025 edition of its Open Source Malware Index, uncovering 16,279 malicious open source packages across major ecosystems including npm and PyPI. This quarter’s count brings the total number of open source malware packages Sonatype has discovered… Read More

July 12, 2025 @ 6:47 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Relm Insurance, an insurer for emerging and innovative industries, this week announced the launch of OMEGAFINTECH and NOVAFINTECH. The two offerings are designed to eliminate coverage gaps within streamlined policies built for today’s financial innovators. Modern Fintechs face growing risks, from cyberattacks to regulatory scrutiny,… Read More