Long-form coverage of cards, IBANs, payment rails, regulation and the technology that moves money — in seven languages, written by working operators.
Gemini's Singapore subsidiary has received a Major Payment Institution license from MAS, completing a long regulatory process and opening new doors across Asia-Pacific.…
Ezechi Britton named independent chair of the UK's Future Entity design group, signalling a decisive shift beyond the CMA9 framework toward full open finance.…
India's SEBI launches a $107M tokenized bond pilot under Demat 2.0, with secondary trading and retail access planned for later phases.…
SBF's legal team petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his fraud conviction, arguing he was denied the right to show customers suffered no losses.…
Blockstream has rejected a ransom demand after hackers seized nearly 600 BTC from the Liquid Network, pledging law enforcement and forensic action to recover the funds.…
A revised CLARITY Act takes aim at DeFi operators deemed insufficiently decentralized, while its contentious ethics provisions remain largely intact ahead of a Senate vote.…
Nasdaq Ventures has injected $100M into Kraken parent Payward, deepening a strategic alliance centred on tokenised equities infrastructure and market surveillance.…
Sam Bankman-Fried's legal team has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his conviction and $11B forfeiture, arguing evidence was wrongly excluded.…
The Bank of Thailand is tightening anti-financial crime measures across governance, information sharing, customer due diligence, and technology monitoring.…
Visa opens VisaNet settlement data to fintechs and stablecoin card issuers, enabling blockchain-based borrowing against card settlements for faster working capital.…
DBS, OCBC and UOB have executed live SGD interbank transactions via tokenised deposits for the first time, using Swift's blockchain ledger to bridge their separate systems.…
Mastercard and Visa have backed a World Bank Group initiative using risk-sharing mechanisms to help local banks and fintechs scale digital payments in developing economies.…