March 31, 2026 @ 5:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

NordVPN’s Threat Intelligence research unit, in collaboration with TechRadar, has revealed three major, interconnected global cybercrime operations exploiting user trust in digital platforms, outdated technology, and cryptocurrency markets. “Online scams are evolving faster than ever before. What once looked like crude attempts to trick a… Read More

March 31, 2026 @ 2:28 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Warning signs of a gradual decline in key customer engagement metrics are starting to flash for retail banks, according to the JD Power 2026 U.S. Retail Banking Satisfaction Study, as customers increasingly open deposit accounts with multiple institutions. “Retail banks are confronting an incredibly complex,… Read More

March 30, 2026 @ 3:46 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Danish acquiring company Clearhaus is introducing a payment facilitator solution that allows licensed businesses across Europe to manage payments directly for merchants using their platforms.  As part of the European payment group Unzer, Clearhaus enables technology firms, online marketplaces, and other licensed businesses to onboard… Read More

March 29, 2026 @ 8:22 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Tokenization and crypto-backed mortgages? A revised CLARITY Act? Bitcoin price movement? Web3 Thoughts of the Week contains all that and more. Bitcoin “Bitcoin is currently showing signs of short-term improvement, but the broader technical picture remains unchanged, with the asset still trading within a well-defined… Read More

March 29, 2026 @ 8:10 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitpanda, a European platform for crypto and other digital assets, this week launched Vision Chain, a dedicated technical layer designed to transition tokenized assets from isolated pilots into the mainstream economy. Developed in partnership with the Vision Web3 Foundation and built on the Optimism tech… Read More

March 29, 2026 @ 10:18 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Visa will join the Canton Network as the first major global payments company to serve as a Super Validator, to help extend privacy‑preserving blockchain infrastructure to banks and financial institutions around the world. Visa will be one of 40 Super Validators on Canton. That move… Read More

March 29, 2026 @ 9:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Kotapay, a division of First International Bank & Trust (FIBT), recently announced that Giftly, a digital gifting platform that allows people to send personalized, monetary gifts, is live on Kavinu, FIBT’s bank-direct Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform. The partnership supports Giftly’s payout experience with… Read More

March 29, 2026 @ 9:05 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Firmly, an agentic commerce provider, has introduced Firmly Connect, a no-code onboarding platform that autonomously integrates with merchants’ existing websites and commerce infrastructure to help merchants more easily sell through new agentic marketing channels. The solution creates a direct and trusted connection between the agent… Read More

March 27, 2026 @ 9:01 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Visbanking founder and CEO Brian Pillmore said that while banking has long been a relationship-driven business, especially at the local and regional level, relying solely on those relationships in a data-driven area leaves those institutions at risk.   Visbanking offers source integration, production data pipelines,… Read More

March 27, 2026 @ 8:04 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Danish Fintech Cardlay has launched its first embedded commercial card and spend management program in the United States. Cardlay’s core proposition is enabling financial institutions and vertical platforms to launch a full commercial spend management platform on top of existing issuing and processing infrastructure —… Read More

March 27, 2026 @ 12:45 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Mesh, a crypto payments network, is partnering with Canton Network––a public, permissionless blockchain that enables banks and institutions to move assets and payments securely, while keeping sensitive data private. Through this partnership, Mesh has joined Canton as a Super Validator, a trusted operator responsible for… Read More

March 27, 2026 @ 12:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

According to the JD Power 2026 U.S. Investor Satisfaction Study, a shift is starting to open the door for newer fintech brands that are achieving high scores in customer satisfaction from clients for their easy-to-use digital channels. Younger investors are also indicating that they trust… Read More

March 26, 2026 @ 3:16 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

RS2, a global provider of payment processing infrastructure and technology solutions, has released a white paper examining how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming merchant acquiring from a largely defensive function focused on fraud mitigation into a strategic engine for revenue generation, merchant performance and payment… Read More

March 26, 2026 @ 11:10 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week Zalos, a provider of computer agents for finance operations, announced a $3.6 million seed round to develop agentic productivity software. The funding round was led by 14 Peaks with participation from Cohen Circle, 20VC and several angel investors. Computer agents may be the… Read More

March 26, 2026 @ 5:23 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The follow analysis of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets in general was provided by Ruslan Lienkha, chief of markets for YouHodler. Bitcoin remains under pressure as macro uncertainty weighs on risk assets Bitcoin continues to trade within a well-defined downtrend channel, despite periodic local corrections and… Read More

March 26, 2026 @ 12:19 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Sokin, a business payments and finance platform, has added stablecoin capability. There are no private keys, no contract addresses or native blockchain fees to worry about. A company’s stablecoin wallet sits alongside its traditional currency accounts in the same dashboard, with the same approvals, compliance,… Read More

March 25, 2026 @ 1:16 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Jozu has launched Jozu Agent Guard, a zero-trust AI runtime that executes agents, models, and MCP servers within secure environments, with built-in policy enforcement and guardrails that agents cannot disable. As enterprises rapidly adopt AI agents, MCP servers, and tools like Copilot, OpenClawd, and Claude… Read More

March 23, 2026 @ 4:01 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Orbs launched Orbs Agentic, a dedicated execution layer designed to power autonomous DeFi agents with secure, verifiable on-chain trading infrastructure. Built on Orbs’ existing Layer-3 blockchain architecture, Agentic introduces cosigned oracle verification to help ensure agent-initiated transactions meet predefined execution constraints before being broadcast… Read More

March 23, 2026 @ 9:30 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

MessagePay this week announced a strategic partnership with Glia designed to close a gap that often exists between community banks’ and credit unions’ AI service systems and payments. The new integration embeds MessagePay’s loan payment capabilities directly into Glia’s banking AI platform, allowing financial institutions… Read More

March 22, 2026 @ 5:27 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

AlphaPoint, a provider of institutional digital asset infrastructure, has launched AlphaPoint Treasury, a solution designed to help financial institutions manage stablecoin and fiat operations. As stablecoins become embedded in payment flows, cross-border transactions, and balance sheet strategies, financial institutions are facing increasing complexity in managing… Read More