The survivors will have to learn to market to machines.

How a Chinese-language escrow service on Telegram became the largest criminal marketplace ever built, and why shutting it down changed less than it should have.

At least three accounts at the company linked to a major breach of Denmark’s CPR register reportedly used the password “123456”, including an administrator account. At least three user accounts at…

Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.

AI will change banking because it's willing to perform the countless mundane financial chores most people never get around to doing. Author and speaker David Birch says this simple shift could upend…

The rise of the agentic bank. Cool.

In this episode of @The-Big-Bets podcast, hosts David Birch and Alessandro Hatami sit down with Paulette Rowe, former CEO of Stax and Paysafe, who's also held senior roles at Facebook, Barclaycard,…

As cash usage continues to wane in the digital age, the risk of payment disruption rises. When a power blackout hit Spain and Portugal in 2025, an estimated 55 million people were suddenly unable to make digital payments.

This page provides an overview of the outputs of Phase 2 of the Digital Pound Lab, which concluded in July 2026.

Revelation comes amid mounting concern over online prediction market’s effects on integrity of financial system

Equal time between McKinsey & BCG!

Plus: Lime hands customer’s name to the police • More from inside the Shard • Soho box stacking mystery • The AI takeover of humanity begins with a fixation on Lambeth council

In 1830 the railway’s greatest champion became its first famous casualty. Britain didn’t stop the trains, and we shouldn’t stop AI either.

Remember that old Jerry Seinfeld joke about getting your eyes tested by someone whose only source of income is selling you glasses?

I’m not clever enough to know whether defi will be built on Ethereum 2.0 or Solano, but I am smart enough to know that it will be built. It therefore makes sense for financial services organisations to start working on their own strategies for exploiting the new markets that will emerge.

Financial firms are shutting down hundreds of thousands of suspected money mule accounts, but organised criminal groups are still shifting dirty money

Two questions should be settled before the design is fixed

Also: hyperscalers, circular financing, AI slop, pervert glasses and justifiable murder

A Russia-Ukraine cease-fire isn’t guaranteed to get prices down.

Hey it’s international identity day tomorrow! We can all get together and celebrate everything being even more broken than it was last year.

Guardian angel was developed to address common manipulation techniques used by scammers to trick people into authorising payments. Examples include romance scams and friendship scams, where people are emotionally manipulated, as well as account takeover schemes, impersonation scams and investment fraud schemes promising unrealistic returns.