Long-form coverage of cards, IBANs, payment rails, regulation and the technology that moves money — in seven languages, written by working operators.
BNY's Carl Slabicki, Head of Commercial for Global Payments & Trade, is redefining how one of the world's oldest custody institutions approaches always-on financial infrastructure.…
Brant Standridge, who led Huntington's consumer and business banking since 2022, is elevated to president with oversight of all revenue-generating units.…
Georgia de novo Georgia Skyline Bank bypasses years of organic growth by recapitalizing a Virginia bank, arriving at $200M in scale on day one.…
The FTC has settled with Humboldt Merchant Services for $12 million and imposed a permanent ban on processing payments for high-risk merchants, signaling tougher enforcement in payments compliance.…
A 36-year-old Russian web developer has been extradited from Georgia and arraigned in the U.S. over an alleged $15 million bank account takeover operation.…
Saudi Arabia's PayTabs has agreed to acquire Amazon Payment Services' MENA operations in a board-approved deal valued at over $100 million, reshaping the region's payments landscape.…
DBS and Citi completed a live Singapore–US dollar payment on Saturday 5 September 2026 using tokenized deposits, bypassing traditional weekend clearing delays.…
Visa is combining payment settlement data with blockchain lending tools to give fintechs and stablecoin card programs access to working capital.…
Cronos erased two hours of on-chain transactions to reverse a $111 million DeFi exploit, but $9.19 million remains unrecovered and legitimate user activity was caught in the reversal.…
Sweden's tax authority has issued nearly 540 million kronor in back-tax demands against six cryptocurrency mining firms operating in the northern town of Boden.…
Fifth Third Bancorp has fully integrated the Comerica franchise following their February merger, emerging as the ninth-largest bank in the United States.…
Visa is merging VisaNet settlement data with blockchain lending infrastructure as stablecoin payment volume on its network approaches a 200% year-over-year surge.…