Parminder Saini CEO at Triple Minds
On 20 August 2025, TRM Labs, a blockchain-intelligence company focused on investigating digital-asset crime, unveiled the Beacon Network: a real-time crypto-crime response system created with exchanges, payment firms, stablecoin issuers and law-enforcement agencies. The launch comes as the sector grapples with unprecedented levels of fraud and hac...
2 hours /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
It took some time to get the focus to organisation wallets - even if that should have been the starting point. Otherwise citizens wallets cannot get the critical mass of credentials needeed. Now - finallly - EU is driving the Business Wallet forcefully. This has led to many asking if the public sectors will not eat the dog-food Brussels is servin...
4 hours /ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services
Sandeep Hinduja Vice President & Head of Banking (US) at Newgen Software Inc.
Unlocking the Full Potential of AI Through Visibility, Alignment, and Foresight Approaching the Zero Principle in Banking The swift developments of AI technologies are transforming the delivery and consumption of banking services. Based on a 2024 Citigroup report, there is a high possibility that AI will boost the global banking industry’s profits...
17 hours
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
Stablecoins are crypto with a reserve of assets, one -to-one in value associated with the coins outstanding. Assets are of high-quality liquid value e.g. short-term US T-bills or commodities, such as gold. In September 2025 The Bank of England (BoE) reflected on its new wholesale Real Time Gross Settlement System (RT2) which includes ‘multi-money’....
22 hours /payments /crypto Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Julija Jevstignejeva Deputy Head of Marketing at Walletto UAB
In a quiet corner of the eurozone, the next era of money is already taking shape. But can a digital euro deliver financial stability, privacy and sovereignty without becoming just another tool of control? When the European Central Bank first floated the idea of a digital euro in 2021, it felt to many like a speculative gesture — a bureaucratic nod ...
23 hours /payments Digital Banking Trends
Alastair Gill Principal Data Scientist at GFT
This is not yet another blog on AI (well, ok, it sort of is, it’s about the non-AI bits of AI projects, but please bear with me!). After well over 20 years working in the field, I have never known quite so much excitement and enthusiasm for discussing all things artificial intelligence as we have seen in the last 2.5 years, but it seems as thoug
04 September 2025 /ai /predictions
Ben O'Brien Managing Director at Jaywing
At this year’s Credit Scoring and Credit Control Conference in Edinburgh, colleagues Ben Archer and Peter Szocs presented on a topic gaining significant attention: how federated learning can support banks in addressing fraud. Fraud has risen sharply in recent years, both in scale and sophistication. Cifas reported more than 217,000 cases to the Nat...
04 September 2025 /crime
Tatiana Sokolova Chief Marketing Officer at Spayz.io
The rapid evolution of the payments sector is being driven by the integration of new technologies into existing infrastructure. This has enabled legacy systems to overcome traditional barriers to cross-border transactions, unlocking significant growth in payment volumes. Key verticals such as iGaming, Forex, and e-commerce have seen particularly s...
04 September 2025 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
1. Governance First, Tech Second The EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI) is based on regulated trust frameworks: Member States, Qualified Trust Service Providers (QTSPs), and regulated conformity assessment bodies. DIDs, by design, are decentralized identifiers without a single root of trust. The EU didn’t want identifiers that anyone could spi
04 September 2025 /ai /identity Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Srinivasa Atta Cloud & AI at Google
For years, AI in the financial technology sector has been synonymous with rudimentary chatbots handling password resets and fraud detection algorithms working silently in the background. While impactful, these applications were siloed and incremental. Today, the introduction of sophisticated, generative AI-powered platforms like Google Cloud's Age...
03 September 2025 /ai /inclusion Fintech
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