A failed payment can look small on a transaction screen. For the business waiting on the money, the effects can spread fast. Revenue gets delayed, staff spend more time fixing problems and customers can lose confidence in the payment experience. “The Payment Guarantee Gap: Why...
Twenty-seven nations are likely to come up with 27 different definitions of vendor risk. The European Union’s member nations are finding that out in real time. And while the long-standing debate around whether equipment from suppliers such as Huawei should sit inside critical communications infrastructure...
Card platform upgrade calendars are getting shorter. The next major deadline may arrive before issuers finish planning for the last one. Card issuers face pressure from several directions. Fraud keeps changing, customers expect faster digital services and AI is creating new ways to manage accounts....
There’s a new nightmare scenario in enterprise cloud computing, and it’s not an AI-driven cyberattack. It’s a vendor simply going out of business and disappearing. That’s what happened to a PBS affiliate in St. Louis, which lost 70 years of archival material, or around 50...
October 27, 2026
Economic uncertainty is supposed to make CFOs defensive. Today, it’s giving the strongest companies permission to attack. New data in the October 2026 edition of “The 2026 Certainty Project” from PYMNTS Intelligence finds that 87% of CFOs see at least some opportunity in market softness, even as 60% say those same conditions make them more […]
September 09, 2026
Card platform upgrade calendars are getting shorter. The next major deadline may arrive before issuers finish planning for the last one. Card issuers face pressure from several directions. Fraud keeps...
June 26, 2026
Fraud deadlines arguably don’t attract much attention outside compliance departments. This year’s changes to the Nacha Operating Rules reshape how banks are expected to identify suspicious ACH activity before losses...
June 18, 2026
Explore more conversations like this From the Block. For most of the cryptocurrency industry’s history, lawyers occupied a familiar role: identify risks, interpret regulations and tell companies what they couldn’t do....
July 28, 2026
Velera has launched a fully integrated risk mitigation solution designed to enable credit unions to detect and respond to potential fraud events in near-real time. The new Risk Alert Manager puts credit unions fully in control of their fraud response by unifying data from all cardholder interactions, the credit union service organization said in a […]
May 19, 2026
Financial technology company FIS has launched its Enterprise Risk Suite on Amazon Web Services (AWS). “Upgrading risk software has always meant disruption and for firms managing risk in real-time, that’s...
May 19, 2026
Plaid has introduced a tool designed to help customers make smarter ACH-payment-related decisions. “ACH is the backbone of the digital economy and one of the most cost-effective ways to move money,...
April 23, 2026
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) will launch a new risk mitigation tool for FedNow® Service participants on Tuesday (April 28). The new network intelligence application programming interface (API) provides receiver account-level data...
