Although many digital asset firms still treat compliance as a separate legal topic, in reality, it directly defines whether a business can operate or innovate at all. This is a classic mistake I have seen: companies spend months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to perfect an idea, and even when it is completely legal, if the bank sees even a tiny opportunity for a mistake, the whole project fails at onboarding. Digital assets grew in a period where regulatory gaps and jur

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As we all know by now, VAMP measures fraud rates and disputes across the aggregated activity of all merchants, sitting under one provider, sharing the same rails. It was good for VISA – because under this model, payment providers became directly incentivised to monitor merchant behaviour more actively, control, fraud exposure, and tighten onboarding decisions. However, when payment providers or aggregators assign the same descriptor to multiple merchants, to group together si

As of now, the banks and payment providers are approaching AI with caution. Understanding and dealing with agents needs a lot of training and expertise, and it can be a massive risk to the classic systems. We have seen that banks have already increased scrutiny and are demanding more documentation on “AI-assisted” or “autonomous” flows. When a merchant implements an AI tool, the processing can look almost identical to the traditional fraud pattern. Where businesses see innova

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In this webinar, I sat down with Ehud Tal , a cyber and crypto security expert who has built exchanges, crypto desks, and institutional setups since the early days of Bitcoin. The question was: if everything is digital, why does crypto security feel so different from traditional banking security, and why do institutions keep making the same mistakes when they enter the digital asset space? The answer turned out to be uncomfortable, and revealing a lot more than we expected. A