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Deepak Gusain

Deepak Gusain COO at Cartex

Telcos, Fintechs and Faster Rails: A New Map for Global Money

Today, nearly every trade transaction in the world is facilitated by global payments, with J.P. Morgan estimating that around $200 trillion in payment flows occurred last year. Yet despite the scale and digitalization of finance, the core infrastructure still works on slow and fragmented rails. As a result, for many firms, especially in emerging m...

/payments /inclusion

Daniel Ruhman

Daniel Ruhman Founder & CEO at Cumbuca

The Regulatory Rat Race: How Instant Payments Are Breaking Traditional Banking Alliances

Visa and Mastercard are applying for payment licences in Brazil. Read that again. These are the two companies that spent decades building their business on partnerships—relying on issuing banks to do the operational work whilst they collected interchange fees. Now they are going direct. They are competing with the very institutions that made them ...

/payments

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Welcome to Tokenisation, the new digital financial world and FCA:

Tokenisation is transforming how financial systems handle value, ownership, and trust. As legal and technological frameworks mature, it will underpin the next generation of digital finance — connecting traditional banking with Distributed Ledger Technology innovation. In the last months Digital UK Gilts used to stabilise FX trading between major ...

/regulation /wealth Tokenomics

Stanley Epstein

Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group

From Defense to Resilience: Building Cyber Strength in an Era of Relentless Digital Threats

A Strategic Risk Management Framework for Sustaining Trust, Continuity, and Competitive Advantage Introduction: Cyber Risk as the New Business Continuity Challenge In an era where business operations, customer interactions, and supply chains are inseparably tied to digital infrastructure, the boundaries between technology risk and business risk h...

/ai /regulation Operational Risk Management

Galong Yao

Galong Yao CGO at Bamboodt

SuperApp is earned: where real usage, operations, and timing converge

I’m often asked a simple question with complex implications: what qualifies an app as a “SuperApp”? It’s easy to get lost in architecture, features, and ecosystems. My view is straightforward: a SuperApp is primarily a business concept, not a technical pattern. Think of it as a title earned through consistent market performance—when an app delive

/payments /markets

Mete Feridun

Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk

System Stress, Market Makers, and the Largest Crypto Liquidation Ever: Regulatory Lessons

On the night of October 10–11, right after traditional markets had closed, U.S. President Trump’s comments threatening a sharp increase in tariffs on China triggered an immediate “risk-off” move across global markets. The timing was crucial: the remarks came within minutes of market close, when liquidity was already thin, and they explicitly refer...

/regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights

Eyad Almaaitah

Eyad Almaaitah VP - Global Product Management at Compass Plus Technologies

The secret weapon against fraud: Microservices

Fraudsters don’t stand still. New schemes emerge daily, exploiting vulnerabilities faster than traditional fraud systems can adapt. For financial institutions, the challenge isn’t just spotting fraud in real time - it’s staying one step ahead of it. That’s where technology architecture becomes just as important as detection logic. One of the mos...

/security /payments

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Two Circles of Privacy

1. The Core – You-controlled data This is the data you receive into your wallet - making the MyData make-it-happen mission real: official credentials (ID, diploma, driver’s licence, tax number, company roles, etc.), verifiable credentials from other issuers you decide to trust (skills, power of attorneys, e-receipts, IBAN-credentials etc..) cred...

/security /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Joseph Ibitola

Joseph Ibitola Head of Demand Generation at Flagright

AI vs Rules-Based Transaction Monitoring: Why a Hybrid Approach Wins

Fraud in payments is growing more sophisticated, forcing payment service providers (PSPs) to rethink their defenses. Today’s fraudsters are even leveraging AI tools to scale attacks and evade detection. In response, regulators and industry leaders are raising the bar for fraud prevention. A 2025 American Banker survey found that 62% of banks and ...

/ai /payments Fintech

Konstantin Dubovitskiy

Konstantin Dubovitskiy Sr. Account Executive at Checkbook.io

The US interbank payments ecosystem

Interbank payments ecosystem is extremely complex and involves a lot of moving parts that most of us (even those in payments), never encounter. By the end of this article you will better understand how banks communicate with one another, what do those communication channel look like and how do funds get settled depending on the channel. Definitions...

/payments /retail Banking

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