January 15, 2025
Prove Acquires Portabl to Offer Reusable Digital Identities
Identity verification firm Prove has acquired fellow digital identity company Portabl. The deal, announced Tuesday (Jan. 14), gives Prove access to Portabl’s offerings including the company’s specialty: reusable ID verification...
January 15, 2025
91% of Mid-Sized Firms Plan to Expand AP Automation to...
As cybercriminals target more businesses, accounts payable (AP) departments are more vulnerable to fraud. With more than 80% of U.S. companies affected by sophisticated digital payment fraud, the need for...
January 13, 2025
Chainalysis Bolsters Fraud Detection Capabilities With Alterya Acquisition
Blockchain data platform Chainalysis acquired Alterya, an artificial intelligence-powered fraud detection solution that works with cryptocurrency exchanges and FinTechs to identify scammers and protect the companies’ end users from authorized...
January 07, 2025
PayU-Backed BRISKPE Launches Cross-Border Payments Platform for Indian Small Businesses
PayU-backed BRISKPE has launched a unified platform for cross-border payments that is designed for Indian small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). With this platform, SMBs can access account-to-account (A2A) transfers, card...
January 06, 2025
Court Docs Show Regulator’s Crypto Freeze Was More Warning Than...
There has been a quiet uproar happening in the crypto space, and it’s not bitcoin’s surging price. Rather, it is the ongoing accusations by U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase, as well...
January 03, 2025
Bears, Bulls and Regulations Shape Crypto’s 2025 Aspirations
The global cryptocurrency market is capitalized at over $3 trillion. Much of that value is concentrated at the top, among a few key digital tokens. Bitcoin, as the first and...
January 02, 2025
This Week in B2B: A Year’s Worth of Payments Innovation
We are officially in the second half of the 21st century’s first 50 years. But, against a backdrop where the finance functions of many B2B firms operate like it’s still...
January 02, 2025
Stablecoin Sandwiches? Here’s What CFOs Need to Know About Crypto...
As cryptocurrency continues its march toward mainstream adoption, CFOs and treasurers are finding themselves at the forefront of what could be a financial revolution. No longer the domain of blockchain...
December 31, 2024
‘Debanking’ Debate Resurfaces Amid Trump’s Return to Office
Will Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office bring a crackdown on “debanking?” As the Financial Times (FT) noted in an opinion piece Tuesday (Dec. 31), there’s a debate about the topic...
No other industry has more at stake in digital identity verification than financial services, a future Zil Money’s Justin Timlin says will be driven by technology and shaped by how regulators want to see it deployed. Read more in this month’s “Alternative Payments Tracker®,” a PYMNTS and Socure collaboration.