Open Banking & API Finance

Acre Rebrands as Score to Accelerate ClearScore Expansion into the UK Mortgage Market

by Asep Darmawan
written by Asep Darmawan
Acre, widely recognized as one of the United Kingdom’s fastest-growing intermediary platforms and mortgage customer relationship management (CRM) providers, has officially announced a comprehensive rebrand. Moving forward, the company will operate under the name Score....
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Fintech Innovations

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Reopens Final Exhibitor Bookings Ahead of October Conference in San Francisco

by Siti Muinah
written by Siti Muinah
The countdown to one of the technology industry’s most anticipated annual gatherings has entered its final stretch. Organizers of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 have officially announced a last-minute reopening for exhibitor bookings, offering a narrow, highly constrained window for early-stage companies and innovative startups to secure a physical presence on the Expo Hall floor....
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Crypto Card Volume in 2026: $1.1 Billion a Month, and What Is Inside It

by Sagoh
written by Sagoh
At 16:49:48 UTC on Friday, August 28, 2026, a Solana-based wallet—funded just three hours earlier with 1.79 SOL via a $190 USDC bridge from Ethereum—executed a sequence of transactions that exposed a critical vulnerability in the infrastructure of several prominent crypto-native neobanks. By the time the exploit concluded, 1,685 users of Avici, a Solana-based financial platform, had seen their card-balance accounts drained of a combined $500,859.22....
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Blockchain Technology

European Central Bank Launches Pontes to Settle Tokenized Transactions in Central Bank Money and Announces Direct DLT Investment Plans

by Neng Nana
written by Neng Nana
The European Central Bank has officially launched Pontes, marking a significant milestone in the Eurosystem’s strategy to integrate distributed ledger technology into mainstream financial market infrastructures. Designed specifically to facilitate the settlement of tokenized transactions using central bank money—frequently characterized in financial technology circles as a wholesale central bank digital currency solution—Pontes represents a major leap forward for the eurozone's financial architecture....
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Fintech Innovations

Time Is Running Out to Secure Discounted Passes for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 as the September 25 Deadline Approaches

by Sagoh
written by Sagoh
Tech professionals, startup founders, and venture capitalists have just four days remaining to lock in substantial savings on registration for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The premier technology conference, scheduled to take place from October 13 to October 15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, offers attendees a crucial opportunity to gain a macro-level perspective on a rapidly shifting industry....
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

The Liquid Network Security Breach and the Implications for Bitcoin Sidechain Architecture

by Siti Muinah
written by Siti Muinah
At 14:06:10 UTC on Sunday, September 6, 2026, the Liquid Network experienced a critical security incident that resulted in the unauthorized removal of nearly 4,000 BTC from the Liquid Federation’s multisig wallet. The event, which originated from a consensus-level vulnerability within the Elements software, has raised profound questions regarding the security of pegged assets, the limitations of confidential transactions, and the operational risks inherent in federated sidechain architectures....
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Artificial Intelligence in Finance

What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About TypeSafe AI’s Jev

by Sagoh
written by Sagoh
The emergence of Jev, a specialized model developed by TypeSafe AI, has triggered a significant discourse within the machine learning community regarding the evolution of natural language processing (NLP). While social media influencers and tech enthusiasts have framed Jev as a paradigm-shifting invention that renders traditional large language models (LLMs) obsolete, a technical examination reveals a more nuanced reality....
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Artificial Intelligence in Finance

The High-Tech Mirage: How AI-Powered Surveillance Towers Failed to Prevent Tragedies Along the US Southern Border

by Dwi Wanna
written by Dwi Wanna
Over the past quarter-century, the United States government has invested billions of taxpayer dollars into the construction of a sophisticated virtual wall along its southern border. Comprising thousands of high-tech surveillance towers, thermal imaging cameras, and, more recently, artificial intelligence-powered detection systems, this technological infrastructure was marketed to the American public and lawmakers as a revolutionary solution to border security....
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