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Pay by Bank is gaining traction, with one of Europe’s most widely used online marketplaces, AliExpress, now accepting Pay by Bank at checkout in the UK, France, Spain and Germany, and platforms including Octopus Money now enabling customers to fund pensions and investment accounts directly from their bank accounts. However, the industry believes further progress…
DataVisor, the real-time AI decisioning platform for fraud and risk prevention, today launched Vera Code on the Money20/20 USA Breaking News stage. Vera Code is a new agentic AI capability that accelerates financial crime solutions deployment, reducing the time and complexity to build, adapt and manage fraud and AML programs. It marks a step change for the…
AI is driving the cost of fraud for financial institutions to record levels. According to the LexisNexis® True Cost of Fraud™ Study 2026 North America: Financial Services and Lending, every $1 of fraud now costs US financial services firms $5.47, up from $4.00 in 2021. US lending firms incur $4.84, while financial services and lending…
At Money20/20 USA, Mastercard announced Stablecoin Security, a new risk intelligence solution, with Borderless.xyz and Keyrails as initial partners. As stablecoins play a growing role in cross-border and business-to-business payments, financial institutions need a clearer view of risk across increasingly complex payment flows. The solution builds on Mastercard’s existing capabilities and helps financial institutions identify…
The digital gold market, worth US$45–55bn today, could unlock up to US$700bn in latent demand, according to new research from the World Gold Council and Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report points to substantial untapped appetite among retail investors, with nearly nine in ten surveyed saying they would consider digital gold under the right conditions….
TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) today announced the launch of its Credit Washing and Synthetic Fraud Scores with adverse action capability. These are the first-ever adverse-actionable solutions of their kind in the market, helping organizations identify and manage risks associated with synthetic identities and credit washing while supporting FCRA-governed, consumer-permissioned decisions. The scores allow lenders to make more informed credit decisions…
Mesh, the leading crypto payments network, today announced a strategic partnership with Visa to make crypto and stablecoin balances spendable across Visa’s global acceptance network. The first-of-its-kind collaboration combines Visa’s global acceptance network with Mesh’s orchestration infrastructure, enabling consumers to pay in-store and online directly from the balances they already hold in their wallet apps….
Expanding access to global payment infrastructure for Canadian businesses and individuals, TerraPay, a global money movement company, has partnered with RemitBee, a Canadian cross-border payments platform, to strengthen international remittance and business payout capabilities across key outbound corridors spanning the United States, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.Bringing enterprise-grade cross-border payment capabilities to small businesses, this partnership…
Today, leading global wallet infrastructure provider Mangopay announces the expansion of its local payout capabilities to five additional currencies across APAC, Latin America and EMEA: Australian dollar (AUD), Hong Kong dollar (HKD), Singapore dollar (SGD), Mexican peso (MXN) and Turkish lira (TRY). The expansion enables platforms to route payouts to sellers, service providers and other beneficiaries through…
Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, today announced the expansion of its Direct Global Network into Venezuela, one of Latin America’s critical financial corridors. With this expansion, Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network, including banks, Money Transfer Operators (MTOs), payment service providers and gig economy platforms, can process compliant, real-time transfers…
BNB Standard Corporation (Nasdaq: BNC) (“BNB Standard,” “BNC,” or the “Company”), a growth-oriented company focused on managing the world’s largest corporate treasury of BNB, today announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) has appointed Alex Odagiu as Chief Executive Officer, effective October 19, 2026. Mr. Odagiu has served as the Company’s Interim President since…
Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), the modern card issuing platform, announced today that it is enabling the Square Credit Card, Square’s business credit card for sellers, backed by the American Express® Network. With the migration to Marqeta, Square is consolidating its debit, prepaid, and credit programs onto one modern card issuer processor, reducing operational complexity and enabling…
