October 30, 2025 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A research study by global tech strategists Juniper Research anticipates a  85% surge in fraud detection and prevention investment by 2030; increasing significantly from $21 billion in 2025 to $39 billion in 2030. This reflects the urgent need to combat various fraud techniques, like real-time… Read More

 Tagged banking, digital identity, fraud, insights, research

October 30, 2025 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Travis Hill has been given the nod to lead the Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a key financial regulator. He is currently the acting Chairman of the agency. The nomination was forwarded to the Senate at the end of last month. Hill took over… Read More

 Tagged AFC, fdic, travis hill

October 30, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Billtrust, the enabler of B2B accounts receivable workflow and payment software, announced the results of a Wakefield Research study showing that artificial intelligence is a must-have for accounts receivable teams. As AI becomes embedded in AR workflows, it enables companies to accelerate payments, “unlock liquidity,… Read More

 Tagged ai, b2b, billtrust, digitalization, Research Study

October 30, 2025 @ 6:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has recently announced Mastercard Threat Intelligence, the threat intelligence offering applied to payments at scale. The solution brings together Mastercard’s fraud insights and network visibility with curated cyber threat intelligence from Recorded Future‘s platform to help payment fraud and merchant compliance teams… Read More

 Tagged data, fraud, mastercard, threat intelligence

October 30, 2025 @ 5:51 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Uniphore, a business AI company, has closed a $260 million Series F round. NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake, and Databricks invested in the round and were joined by financial and sovereign investors, including NEA, March Capital, BNF Capital, National Grid Partners, and Prosperity7 Ventures. “Our Series F… Read More

 Tagged Andrew Ferguson, Business AI, databricks, funding round, Harsha Kapre, Hemant Dhulla, Uniphore

October 30, 2025 @ 2:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Thredd, a global payments processor, is powering Gennius XYZ’s global expansion into new markets as its global issuer-processor partner, contributing to the fintech’s mission to tokenize loyalty rewards. With Thredd, Gennius XYZ can instantly issue virtual cards and scale its one-currency loyalty solution to customers… Read More

 Tagged Gennius XYZ, kevin fox, loyalty, rewards, Rordigo McCarthy, thredd

October 29, 2025 @ 11:05 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Interledger Foundation, an organization building and advocating for an interoperable payments network, has released the first report of its three-part Future of Digital Finance Series, titled A Cashless Country and the Future of Banks–Consumer Perspectives. The first annual survey reveals that consumers are split… Read More

 Tagged cashless society, gen z, interledger foundation, millennials

October 29, 2025 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Go in Brazil, a subscription plan intended to give consumers improved access to ChatGPT’s more advanced capabilities with a better package when compared to ChatGPT Plus. The version is said to be a lower-cost alternative between the standard and Plus versions and… Read More

 Tagged brazil, digital banking, latam, nubank, openai

October 29, 2025 @ 8:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Westpac recently noted that it is now predicting “record-breaking” consumer spending with online retailers this upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales season, potentially topping the $17.7 billion spent in the past year, after consistent month-on-month transaction increases and consistent with historical seasonal spikes. Research… Read More

 Tagged australia, consumer spending, insights, westpac

October 29, 2025 @ 8:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca is pleased to announce that options trading is integrated with TradingView via their Alpaca Trading API account. This builds on the existing API connection for stocks, ETFs, and crypto, providing users with the flexibility to visualize, analyze, and execute strategies within a common interface…. Read More

 Tagged alpaca, options, trading, tradingview