Deepak Gusain COO at Cartex
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...
3 hours /payments /inclusion
Daniel Ruhman Founder & CEO at Cumbuca
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 ...
3 hours /payments
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
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 ...
4 hours /regulation /wealth Tokenomics
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
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...
6 hours /ai /regulation Operational Risk Management
Galong Yao CGO at Bamboodt
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
7 hours /payments /markets
Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
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...
8 hours /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Eyad Almaaitah VP - Global Product Management at Compass Plus Technologies
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...
9 hours /security /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
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...
10 hours /security /identity Innovation in Financial Services
Joseph Ibitola Head of Demand Generation at Flagright
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 ...
14 hours /ai /payments Fintech
Konstantin Dubovitskiy Sr. Account Executive at Checkbook.io
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...
20 hours /payments /retail Banking
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