Security

Lloyds Banking Group has completed the first-known experiment into how quantum computing could help to identify money mules….

DeFi platform Drift has suspended deposits and withdrawals after losing millions of dollars in a crypto hack….

CSI, a leading provider of end-to-end financial software and technology, today announced its strategic partnership with Carefull, the first financial safety platform purpose-built to protect aging adults from fraud, scams and money mistakes….

Marqeta, Inc. (NASDAQ: MQ), the modern card issuing platform, today announced it enhanced its Real-Time Decisioning (RTD) offering with an AI-powered risk score that analyzes transaction risk levels at the point of the authorization decision….

The gap isn't "KYC tech" — it's control planes, telemetry, and ownership. Every financial ……

The Payments Association is calling for a shared responsibility regulatory framework after revealing that two-thirds of the £250 million lost to APP fraud in early 2025 originated on digital platforms like Facebook and Instagram….

Lloyds Banking Group says that the app glitch earlier this month that led to customers seeing other people's account details exposed the personal data of nearly half a million people….

A hearing before the US Congress Joint Economic Committee revealed that consumers submitted three million fraud reports to the CSN, or Consumer Sentinel Network, a secure online database that the Federal Trade Commission makes available to international, federal, state, and local law enforcement partners….

Finextra’s annual fraud‑prevention conference, NextGen FinCrime, taking place on 8 July 2026, will demonstrate why collaboration is now central to the UK’s economic and national security strategy, and will give every attendee a ready‑made fraud‑prevention team from the moment the event begins….

Cleafy, the fraud detection and response platform for banks, has launched Nyx – the first autonomous fraud investigation platform built specifically for financial institutions….

If tokenisation is to take off in Europe, there needs to be more interoperability between the various DLT systems in operation, a centralised settlement mechanism and a central bank digital currency (CBDC)….

The European Commission (EC) must encourage more private capital investment in quantum computing startups if the region is going to compete with China and the US in the development of the new technology….

Capital Layer, a provider of enterprise on-chain settlement infrastructure, announced a strategic distribution partnership with Stark Technology Inc. (敦陽科技, TWSE: 2480), Taiwan’s largest domestic system integrator…

IXOPAY, the enterprise-grade global payment infrastructure platform built for the era of agentic commerce, and Zip, (ASX: ZIP), the digital financial services company offering innovative, people-centred products, today announced a joint initiative to define a Unified Trust Layer — an open industry framework designed to address emerging trust and liability…

How prepared are payments firms for the upcoming FCA’s 7 May safeguarding deadline?…