By Ian Campbell, Director of Solutions at Equals Money Fraudsters pose a major threat to online payments. In the iGaming sector, where people bet on sports, gamble in virtual casinos, and play online poker, the measures and controls are needed to combat fraud have become their biggest barrier to innovation.  Yet these measures are necessary: between 2022 and 2024, fraud in the iGaming sector increased by an average of 64 percent per year. On some gaming platforms, losses now

Press release - Riga, Latvia. November, 13.  StarBridge  has joined the Fintech Latvia Association , an organization uniting the country’s leading financial technology innovators. This partnership underscores StarBridge’s commitment to strengthening Latvia’s fintech ecosystem and contributing to the growth of Europe’s digital financial infrastructure. “Becoming part of the Fintech Latvia Association is an important step in strengthening collaboration within our local fintech

By Sergei Astafjev, CEO of Wallester Banking still works well if you’re one of the biggest clients. For everyone else, it’s often a different story. Ask any small or mid-sized business owner, and you’ll hear the same frustration: too slow, too rigid, too impersonal. According to Capgemini’s World Payments Report 2026 , around 40% of merchants plan to switch from banks to fintechs within the next year. That’s not a marginal trend - it’s a systemic realignment. The reason is si

By John D. Evans, CFA, Founder & General Manager, SEIML It has been an interesting career to date. I have been fortunate to work and live in many locations from America to Europe to the Middle East and now in Asia. It has also been diverse from investment banking to academia and now to start-ups and venture capital. But there has always been one constant, mixing industry with education.  Business and finance at universities focus on core knowledge and theoretical research, a

By Sergey Lebedev, Co-Founder of Torus Imagine navigating a labyrinth where each turn presents a new fee, regulation, or payment method. This is the reality for acquirers today, making it essential to adopt transparent and precise pricing models. Since there is no fixed algorithm or method for allocating payment network fees to transaction levels, this underscores the need for acquirers to optimize their fee management strategies. This article explores how the Interchange++ (

Author:  Clare Rowley, Head of Business Operations at GLEIF In today’s interconnected financial system, vast sums move across borders at unprecedented speed. Yet, weaknesses in data quality, fragmented information flows, and inconsistent reporting continue to undermine global efforts to curb money laundering, terrorist financing, and fraud. Despite soaring compliance investments, the United Nations  estimates that as much as $2 trillion is laundered annually, with fraud plagu

Press release - Singapore, 9 November 2025 The Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) will kick off next week from  12 to 14 November 2025, celebrating its 10th anniversary as a global platform for FinTech  innovation. Organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the Global Finance &  Technology Network (GFTN) and Constellar, in collaboration with the Association of Banks in  Singapore (ABS), SFF has been driving collaboration and dialogue across finance, policy, and  t

By Petter Sandgren, CEO at Centiglobe The U.S. Genius Act has brought stablecoins to the forefront, igniting a debate that reaches far beyond technology. Industry leaders, policymakers, and financial institutions are now weighing in on how tokenized money could reshape global payments and market dynamics.  While blockchain and stablecoins represent important innovations, the debate often overlooks the practical realities of stablecoin payments: the costs, the risks, and the