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Artificial intelligence is compressing the time attackers need to exploit recovery seed vulnerabilities in Bitcoin hardware wallets, undermining cold storage security assumptions.…
Tyler Williams, the US Treasury's senior Bitcoin adviser, has departed after 17 months, raising concerns over delays to federal crypto legislation and the Bitcoin reserve initiative.…
The OCC has launched a public comment period on proposed rules that would reshape how the agency balances confidentiality with transparency in disclosing regulatory information.…
Visa acquires fraud-detection specialist BioCatch for $2.4 billion, signaling a strategic pivot toward behavioral biometrics as the new frontier in payment security.…
The EU AI Act's transparency provisions became enforceable August 2, shifting compliance responsibility from AI developers to banks, insurers, and payments firms deploying customer-facing systems.…
UBS's brokerage arm failed to fix compliance flaws flagged in 2018, leaving 60,000 foreign currency wires worth $10 billion unmonitored and triggering a $125M regulatory penalty.…
The OCC and FDIC have jointly proposed a new overhaul of Community Reinvestment Act rules, limiting grants to activist groups and cutting data requirements — notably without the Federal Reserve.…
BlackRock launches two blockchain-based money market funds engineered to meet stablecoin reserve requirements under the US GENIUS Act.…
Visa agrees to acquire Israel-based fraud intelligence firm BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash, as account takeovers and scams cost the global economy over $1 trillion.…
Mastercard has finalized its acquisition of crypto infrastructure platform BVNK, targeting interoperability between fiat and digital currencies including stablecoins.…
The Federal Reserve and FDIC have each proposed raising the credit thresholds banks may extend to insiders, signaling a notable shift in U.S. banking regulation.…
Robinhood has secured FCA registration as a cryptoasset firm in the UK, marking a significant regulatory milestone for the US trading platform's European expansion.…