Long-form coverage of cards, IBANs, payment rails, regulation and the technology that moves money — in seven languages, written by working operators.
Circle's $400M acquisition of Tazapay signals a decisive shift from crypto experimentation to stablecoin infrastructure, targeting the payment delivery gap that digital dollars have yet to solve.…
Robinhood takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com, routing event contracts through OG.com's CFTC-regulated infrastructure to expand its prediction markets business.…
Cronos, the Crypto.com-linked Layer 1 network, confirms $9.19 million remains unrecovered following the August 30 Tectonic exploit, despite validators executing a controversial chain rollback.…
Chime agrees to acquire Oklahoma-based Stride Bank for $590 million in cash, converting a key banking partnership into direct ownership and full regulatory standing.…
Circle agrees to acquire Singapore's Tazapay in a US$400 million all-stock deal, signalling a major push into B2B cross-border payment infrastructure pending MAS approval.…
Chime moves to acquire long-time partner Stride Bank for $590M, choosing full-stack banking ownership over the slower route of pursuing its own charter.…
Block has applied to the OCC to establish a national trust bank offering custody services for bitcoin and stablecoins, marking a major push into regulated crypto finance.…
Titan argues that slapping a banking interface on a general-purpose AI model is not the same as building intelligence that understands banking from first principles.…
Pay.UK underpins billions of British transactions annually, yet almost no one outside banking knows it exists — and that invisibility may be masking deep structural fragility.…
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.…