May 23, 2025 @ 7:38 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Web3 personalities had plenty to discuss this week, as AI companies risk trampling over copyright protections, historians are concerned about ownership of the digital record, and gold and BTC price surges fuel concerns. AI companies skirting copyright law “What was simply a global race for… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 6:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Greenlight, a money and safety app for families, has launched Family Shield, its newest subscription plan designed to help caregivers protect seniors from financial fraud and ensure their physical safety. Family Shield streamlines financial account monitoring and alerts, provides protections against fraud (including deceptive transfer… Read More

May 21, 2025 @ 10:13 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Billtrust, a B2B order-to-cash and digital payments provider, has announced a series of AI advancements. The company’s AI solutions derive their intelligence from a large network of buyer-supplier relationships, creating a virtuous cycle of continuous learning and improvement. A multi-agent AI ecosystem uses specialized agents that collaborate… Read More

May 19, 2025 @ 7:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Infosys (NYSE: INFY) has announced an expansion of its strategic collaboration with DNB Bank ASA  (DNB), Norway’s largest bank, to accelerate its digital transformation. The collaboration will leverage Infosys’ services, solutions, and platforms, including the Infosys Finacle platform, to accelerate their IT modernization journey, improve… Read More

May 18, 2025 @ 10:59 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Fireblocks released its annual payments report, State of Stablecoins 2025. Drawing on insights from nearly 300 C-suite leaders across banking, fintech, and crypto-native firms, the report reveals that stablecoins are no longer in pilot mode—they are becoming the financial core of modern payments infrastructure. Roughly… Read More

May 18, 2025 @ 10:57 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, AU10TIX, a respected provider of identity verification and fraud prevention, announced the launch of continuous risk monitoring as part of its advanced anti-money laundering (AML) solution. Driven by customer demand, this new capability delivers real-time risk insights across the full customer lifecycle—empowering businesses to detect behavioral… Read More

May 18, 2025 @ 10:22 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Mashreq, a MENA financial institution, is set to announce a strategic partnership with Clari5, a provider of real-time financial crime management, to launch Clari5 Genie, a Gen AI-powered fraud detection and investigation platform. Clari5 Genie is designed to help banks proactively manage fraud by using Gen-AI to uncover… Read More

May 18, 2025 @ 1:39 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Hedera announced the launch of AI Studio—an open-source, modular toolkit for building intelligent AI applications on its network. As AI enters a new era of autonomy, interoperability, and verifiability, AI Studio gives developers and enterprises a suite of tools to build powerful, trusted applications. The… Read More

May 18, 2025 @ 8:51 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a provider of payment technology and software solutions, has released Genius, a new POS command center for business operations. The launch unifies all the Global Payments POS products into an all-in-one, intuitive and highly configurable new POS platform. “Going to… Read More

May 18, 2025 @ 5:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

inabit, a provider of secure cryptocurrency management solutions, has announced its collaboration with Google Cloud to utilize its Confidential Computing platform to provide stronger security for cryptocurrency and digital asset transactions.  The urgency of this collaboration is underscored by recent high-profile security breaches, notably the… Read More

May 17, 2025 @ 11:45 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CrediLinq, an AI-powered embedded finance platform for digital-first SMEs, has closed an $8.5 million Series A funding round. The round was led by OM/VC and MS&AD Ventures. New investors include Citi North America and the Rustem Family office. Returning investors include 500 Global, Epic Angels, 1982 VC and… Read More

May 17, 2025 @ 11:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Our Revolution, a grassroots organization, hosted a national organizing call Monday night with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley to discuss the GENIUS Act, legislation that provides rules to govern the stablecoin sector, and mobilize a people-powered firewall against what it says is the crypto-corporate… Read More

May 17, 2025 @ 11:09 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Family offices are accelerating a strategic shift toward direct investments as deepening geopolitical volatility and shifting power dynamics force long-term rethinking among the world’s wealthiest families. Brazil’s alignment with China this week has underscored Beijing’s expanding global influence. From Latin America to the Gulf, China… Read More

May 16, 2025 @ 5:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Read below to see how Web3 reacted to this week’s revelation of the Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) hack. “The Coinbase attack proves why centralized systems keep failing – they offer no resilience against increasingly sophisticated hackers. Cybercriminals know this and are becoming more and more adept at exploiting these… Read More

May 16, 2025 @ 2:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new consumer credit behavior study released by i2c breaks down generational activity while providing direction for service providers. The study asked the following questions: How many cards do consumers have, and how much of their primary card’s credit are they using? What do consumers… Read More

May 15, 2025 @ 2:27 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

As new impactful technologies emerge, insurance providers grapple with pricing risk properly. Effective solutions are developed by looking at relevant regulations and comparable industries. Providers must also develop a nuanced understanding of the technology. Alternative Intelligence (AI) has insurers considering all of the above, and… Read More

May 15, 2025 @ 7:09 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

In a world marked by tariff battles and near-shoring, the TWIN Foundation is working towards a better global trade system propelled by open-source technology and decentralized infrastructure. The TWIN Foundation debuted on May 8 at the AfCFTA Digital Trade Forum in Lusaka, Zambia. It’s an initiative of the Trade… Read More

May 14, 2025 @ 8:30 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Foxit, a provider of innovative PDF and eSignature products and services, today announced the launch of Smart Redact Server, a new AI-driven platform built to automate the redaction of sensitive data at scale across enterprise environments. Designed for organizations that manage large volumes of regulated… Read More

May 13, 2025 @ 11:06 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Web3 world has plenty of opinions on the impact of the trade deal between China and the United States. See what Web3 executives have to say. The global cloud industry needs more “A temporary trade deal between the US and China is not enough… Read More

May 13, 2025 @ 9:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Engage for Good, a company empowering corporate and nonprofit professionals to create mutually beneficial social impact partnerships, and Adyen, a financial technology platform, today released the 2025 Charity Checkout Champions Report, which highlights point-of-sale (POS) fundraising among corporations and nonprofits. This year’s report examines 92… Read More