Fintech

The inherent transparency of blockchains or distributed ledger tech (DLT) networks makes crypto-related investigations a lot easier for law enforcement agencies, when compared to financial investigations involving fiat currency. Blockchains or DLT networks serve as a permanent, publicly viewable ledger of almost all crypto transfers,

Are bitcoin and other crypto tokens crashing because of the usual excesses that accompany advances in finance? Or do they have the sort of fundamental flaws that will see them as historical relics?...

There are lies, darned lies and statistics. This came to my mind when I saw a headline that 70% of the $1 trillion transacted by mobile telephones globally were taking place in Africa, according to the GSMA (Global System for Mobile Communications Association).

I talk with Samantha Ettus of Park Place Payments, a women-owned company changing the experience businesses have with payment processor.

The firm previously raised $50 million for a tokenized fund focused on financial verticals, but its second fund will invest more broadly.

A new report by payments platform Vyne suggests 40 per cent of shoppers are ditching websites with poor payments processes. Retail payments reinvented: how consumer demand is changing explores online payments preferences of 2,002 British consumers surveyed by Vyne following a 43 per cent rise