Long-form coverage of cards, IBANs, payment rails, regulation and the technology that moves money — in seven languages, written by working operators.
A coalition of 39 US state bankers associations has unveiled the BankChain Alliance, a shared industry-controlled blockchain network to modernize payments and deposit services.…
Japan is advancing plans to use distributed ledger technology to enable near-instantaneous, round-the-clock settlement of equities and Japanese government bonds, marking a historic shift in securities infrastructure.…
The British Treasury plans to assign the Bank of England a formal secondary objective to support payments innovation and digital currencies, including stablecoins, with annual parliamentary reporting.…
Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, addressed Europe and Greece's financing challenges at the 30th Annual Economist Government Roundtable in Athens.…
Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa D Cook addressed Alaska's business community in Anchorage, bringing the Fed's economic outlook to one of America's most distinctive regional economies.…
Bitcoin surges past $80,000 on dollar weakness while UK fintech funding collapses — a tale of diverging fortunes across global financial markets in August 2026.…
Banks keep shuttering branches in the name of digital efficiency, but the industry may be sacrificing something AI cannot replicate: human trust.…
Live Oak Bank's BJ Losch argues that AI amplifies strong business strategy but cannot replace it — a lesson forged through 40 verticals of small business specialization.…
Boston's Qubic Labs, which has backed 70 companies and helped raise $40M in blockchain funding, is now appealing to its own community after hitting financial headwinds.…
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis estimates $457B in potentially taxable crypto activity, warning that the OECD's CARF framework captures only 14% of on-chain flows.…
The Accredited Standards Committee X9's new Payment Fraud Forum, launching September 10, aims to unify how banks define and interpret fraud data across the U.S. payments ecosystem.…
Washington state's Cashmere Valley Bank has named a Nicolet executive as its next CEO, but the investor who publicly challenged the lender says the boardroom battle is far from over.…