Cryptography

A three-way hardware-cloud-software alliance shifts payment security infrastructure from bank data centres to managed Azure services.

Take one card payment apart: interchange to the issuer, scheme fees to Visa or Mastercard, margin to the acquirer, and why the new rails are aimed at all three.

A tokenised deposit is a bank's own money on a shared ledger. Here is how it differs from a stablecoin, who has one live, and why the two will coexist.

Follow a payment from Manchester to Lagos to see where the stablecoin removes the correspondent banks, what it costs, and why the last mile is still hard.

What a stablecoin is, what backs the dollar, why $300bn now sits in them, and how the US, EU and UK rules written in the last two years change the picture.

The cybersecurity and IoT group exits Switzerland for the British Virgin Islands, chasing more flexible capital access across its five-subsidiary platform.

Stablecoins are moving from trading infrastructure into real payment rails, with the biggest near-term opportunities in cross-border transfers and marketplace payouts

The Swiss-regulated platform gives banks and family offices cloud-delivered digital asset custody without sacrificing cryptographic architecture or exit flexibility.

eIDAS 2.0, PSD3 and the Wero A2A network are converging to redraw European payments infrastructure before 2028.

Zano's largest-ever protocol upgrade adds exchange-ready addresses and two-way cross-chain bridging to major public networks.

Fourthline's QTSP certification lets it own the full digital identity chain, from KYC verification to legally binding e-signatures, ahead of AMLR 2027.

Five US patents back a data-plane architecture that checks whether biometric evidence is genuine, not just whether the channel is secure.

Five US patents underpin a data-plane architecture that validates biometric evidence before cryptography ever acts on it.

A SIM-anchored authentication platform now spans AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, targeting a fraud wave costing US consumers $15.9bn in 2025.

The FCA's October 2027 deadline forces UK crypto firms to operate with bank-grade governance, prudential capital rules and personal executive accountability.

The Florida startup replaces assumption-based enterprise security with mathematical proof, targeting autonomous AI and cross-organisational data collaboration.

A Series A backed by European and banking-linked VCs positions Wultra to ride the post-quantum cryptography migration now reshaping financial identity.

The UAE Cyber Security Council and QuantumGate have launched a sovereign tool to map and harden cryptographic assets before quantum threats materialise.