July 03, 2025
Payment Hubs Rescue Banks From $100 Million Digital Payments Chaos
The bar for payment experiences — and consumer expectations — has been raised by FinTechs and digital-first challengers, making frictionless transactions a staple of everyday life. Get the Full Story...
July 02, 2025
Ripple Applies for National Banking License
Ripple reportedly filed an application for a national banking license Wednesday (July 2) with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Get the Full Story Complete the form...
July 01, 2025
Circle and Deutsche Bank’s Crypto Custody Announcements Put KYC/AML Under...
Crypto has long been, and still can be, a safe haven for bad actors. That simple fact has long made digital asset custody a thorny issue. Get the Full Story...
June 30, 2025
Tax ID Rule Changes Open Door for AI-Powered Bank Verification
The digital age demands banks find new ways to ascertain at the point of onboarding that customers, whether enterprise clients or individuals, are who they say they are. Get the...
June 26, 2025
Stablecoins ‘Perform Poorly’ as Money and Could Face Uphill Payments...
When Mastercard announced Monday (June 23) that it is partnering with Paxos to advance the Global Dollar Network, the move added more weight to stablecoin payments, a trend reshaping financial...
June 26, 2025
Legacy Infrastructure Won’t Cut It in a Pay-by-Bank World, Says...
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June 25, 2025
How Can We Best Monitor AI Agents?
This paper examines the critical challenge of monitoring AI agent transaction execution within decentralized digital ecosystems, highlighting the deficiencies of traditional centralized AI-driven supervision, including opacity, bias, and systemic vulnerabilities....
June 24, 2025
FATF Adds New Countries to Financial Crime Prevention Deficiencies List
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has updated its list of countries with financial-crime-prevention deficiencies. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
June 17, 2025
Kraken’s Payment Chief Hints at What Will Redefine Crypto’s Role...
Building the plumbing for the next generation of financial services is the goal of the cryptocurrency sector. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
No other industry has more at stake in digital identity verification than financial services, a future Zil Money’s Justin Timlin says will be driven by technology and shaped by how regulators want to see it deployed. Read more in this month’s “Alternative Payments Tracker®,” a PYMNTS and Socure collaboration.
Companies think their identity systems are working—until the numbers prove otherwise. “The Hidden Costs of ‘Good Enough’: Identity Verification in the Age of Bots and Agents,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Trulioo collaboration, reveals how “good enough” identity verification quietly drains $95 billion in revenue due to fraud and missed opportunities each year. In the age of bots and agents, complacency isn’t just risky—it’s expensive.