A gaming licence is the document an operator spends the longest waiting for, and the one it tends to treat as the finish line. It is not. Before a licensed operator can take a single deposit it needs a bank or EMI account, one or more payment providers and a set of third-party partners, and […]
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Fraud prevention in payments has become a layering exercise. Behavioural analytics, device intelligence, velocity checks and transaction scoring sit one on top of another, and each new layer is added because the last one did not stop the losses. Paul Twigg, chief technology officer of Digital Commerce Group (DCG) The contributed piece below argues that […]
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Since 2008 the regulatory project in banking has been about capital: how much a bank holds, how liquid it is, and whether it could survive a run. The money-laundering record of the same period has been less reassuring. The Financial Conduct Authority fined Barclays a combined 42 million pounds in July 2025 over two separate […]
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Sharesight has been tracking investment portfolios since 2007, when it launched as a way to make the job simpler for users in Australia and New Zealand. It now covers more than 700,000 stocks, ETFs and funds across more than 60 markets for over 500,000 investors, recording trades, dividends and corporate actions automatically through hundreds of […]
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The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital of the Middle Eastern nation of Yemen. Yemen does not have one straightforward financial system. More than a decade of conflict has divided the country politically, economically and increasingly monetarily. Different authorities operate from Sana’a and Aden, banks have been caught between competing […]
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Credolab, a behavioural data and alternative credit scoring company founded in Singapore in 2016, joined the FICO Marketplace on 19 August, listed under the Data and Intelligence and Fraud and Threat Intelligence categories. The listing puts its score in front of lenders already running on FICO Platform, which FICO says is used by businesses in […]
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Credit unions are member-owned lenders, and in Britain they are small ones: local savings and loans cooperatives regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority, often staffed by people who know their borrowers by name. That closeness is the sales pitch, and it is also the reason the sector has rarely featured […]
Explore MoreStablecoins have spent years as a niche tool for exchanges and settlement, but that’s changing fast. In this conversation with Marc Boiron, CEO at Polygon Labs, we unpack why stablecoins are starting to move from the back office into real payment experiences—and why the biggest shift may come from enterprises, marketplaces, and banks rather than […]
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Mercuryo, a payments infrastructure platform that provides on-ramp and off-ramp services for digital tokens, published data in August showing that stablecoins accounted for 60 per cent of crypto purchase value through its on-ramp in the first half of 2026, up from 43 per cent in the second half of 2025. On the cash-out side, USD […]
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Card issuers measure fraud losses closely. The cost of the legitimate transactions their fraud systems wrongly decline is another matter. Analysis published by payment technology provider BPC on 6 August 2026 puts that cost at an average of $160,000 a year in lost interchange revenue for a mid-sized issuer, modelled on 10 million debit transactions […]
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