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UK businesses back Open Banking but trust concerns grow

Trust and oversight are now the biggest hurdles for wider Open Banking use, even as 94% of UK businesses say they may trial it soon.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Today

Gaming

Appcharge appoints Ronen Morecki as Chief Operating Officer

The hire underscores Appcharge's push to win more app developers as court rulings and regulation open alternative payment routes beyond Apple and Google.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Last week

Customer Experience

Smarsh names Alessandro Silva Chief Growth Officer

The new post is meant to unify Smarsh's sales and customer teams as the software group pushes further into regulated markets overseas.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • This month

Global Stories

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Robotics

Basware customers focus on trust as AI expands in finance

Finance chiefs are demanding more evidence that AI can be trusted in invoice and payment controls, as errors could affect compliance and suppliers.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 5 min read • Today

Large Language Models

AI shopping assistants triple traffic, hitting retailers

Retailers face a fresh holiday-season test as agentic assistants surge, with Forter seeing orders from them more than triple in a month.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Yesterday

Customer Experience

Agoda & Adyen mark decade-long payments partnership

The tie-up has helped the travel platform improve checkout reliability and authorisation rates as its bookings expanded across more markets and currencies.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 3 min read • 2 days ago

Risk & Compliance

Address-Anchored Identity: Why Data Quality Is the Missing Link in eIDV

Synthetic fraud is slipping past standard checks, prompting banks to use real-time address matching to tie identities to physical locations.

By Bud Walker • 4 min read • Yesterday

Crypto

Mastercard launches stablecoin security tool with partners

Financial institutions can now screen stablecoin transfers for fraud and sanctions risk before settlement as adoption grows in cross-border payments.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last week

Fintech

TerraPay links verify service to Kinexys Liink network

The tie-up aims to curb failed cross-border transfers by letting banks check recipient account and wallet details before sending money.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last week

Risk & Compliance

Darwinium adds AI agent fraud checks across journeys

Fraud teams may struggle to spot AI-driven scams and agent-led abuse as Darwinium moves to assess intent across entire digital journeys.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week

Application Security

Appdome promotes Bertasi to President amid AI push

The move gives Appdome more sales and customer firepower as it races to scale its AI-driven mobile security platform against rising threats.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week

Fintech

Guardsquare opens first Asia-Pacific office in Singapore

Its Asia-Pacific revenue has been rising 50% a year as the mobile security group opens a Singapore hub for sales, support and engineering.

By Mara Sugue • 4 min read • Last week

Gaming

The future of iGaming belongs to operators that can scale trust, not transactions

Peak betting events are exposing fraud and compliance gaps, forcing operators to balance faster growth with player protection and customer trust.

By Regina Viadro • 6 min read • Last week

Virtual Private Networks

Brendan Evers named Chief Executive Officer at Spur

The reshuffle is aimed at helping Spur expand with security and fraud teams as anonymised internet traffic makes traditional signals less reliable.

By Mara Sugue • 4 min read • This month

Risk & Compliance

SEON & Yuno team up to boost global fraud controls

Merchants expanding into new markets can now add fraud checks through Yuno's existing payments infrastructure, avoiding a separate integration.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 3 min read • This month

Payment Technologies

From Payment Card to Digital Trust Infrastructure: How Cards Are Evolving

Banks are using payment cards as trust anchors to link onboarding, wallet enrolment and fraud checks without adding more customer friction.

By Brent Bowen • 7 min read • This month

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Phishing

Singapore senior managers most likely to trust deepfake CEO

Many Singapore office workers still worry about questioning bosses, leaving firms exposed as 35% of senior managers said they would comply with a cloned CEO voice before checking.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • 2 days ago