November 04, 2022
PYMNTS Intelligence: Confronting the Challenge of B2B Payments Fraud

Fraud is a concern on the minds of many corporate decision-makers at present, and with good reason: Nearly half of the organizations worldwide experienced some form of fraud within the...

November 03, 2022
Crypto Weekly: EMEA Regulators Build up Legal Framework

In Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in the past week, lawmakers have moved to better equip regulators with the tools needed to oversee the cryptocurrency industry. In the...

November 03, 2022
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Promote Greater EU Inter-Bank Collaboration in Fighting Fraud

Banks are not the police. And yet, for many crimes, financial institutions (FIs) are often on the front lines when it comes to preventing and detecting fraud. Faced with this...

November 02, 2022
Swiss Financial Regulator to Cap Anonymous Crypto Transactions at $1,000...

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) is extending the scope of its anti-money laundering (AML) ordinance to cover cryptocurrency assets. The adjusted regulations, which will come into effect Jan....

November 01, 2022
BitPay CEO Sees Consumers and Merchants Becoming Crypto-First Natives

While using crypto to make payments isn’t exactly common yet, there are signs that consumers’ desire to pay with digital assets is still strong despite the downturn of the crypto...

October 31, 2022
Chainalysis Sees Growing Push for Crypto Regulation Amid Record Hacks

Crypto, which was born during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, is about to see how it handles the next one. That is something Michael Gronager, CEO of blockchain data firm Chainalysis,...

October 28, 2022
The Stablecoin Versus Real-Time Payments Debate

Cryptocurrency supporters have long argued that one of the lowest-hanging fruits in the payments industry is cross-border payments, and that’s doubly true for stablecoins, which marry the speed and low...

October 26, 2022
eNaira’s First Anniversary Holds Lessons for CBDC Boosters

If there’s one lesson to take away from the first anniversary of Nigeria’s struggling eNaira central bank digital currency (CBDC), it’s that China has shown wisdom with its extremely slow...

October 25, 2022
Mastercard’s Crypto Arm Targets FIs Seeking Customer Trading Offerings

Mastercard moved into the business of providing the backend tools and support to let financial institutions offer retail customers white-label cryptocurrency trading and custody services earlier this month, it did...