It’s 2022, and as more value becomes stored digitally, scammers are evolving too – now stealing millions of dollars from tens of thousands of Web3 users every month. Twitter, Discord, and Telegram are overwhelmed with spam and malicious direct messages, luring users to follow links to giveaways, NFT airdrops, and early access whitelists. Applications are constantly under attack from software supply chain vulnerabilities. Scammers know that they can drain a user’s wallet with just one wrong click, and users don’t have the tools to protect themselves.

On stage at Converge22 today, Circle announced an accelerated crypto payments roadmap enhanced by the recent acquisition of Elements, a merchant and developer-first payments orchestration platform. The announcement includes plans to quickly scale payment offerings to unlock utility value for crypto and lower the barrier of entry for merchants to access next-gen payments and financial services. 

RegTech Africa has emerged as the Leading RegTech Ecosystem Builder in Africa at this year’s World Business Outlook Awards.

The world Business Outlook Awards is a global award with an eye for industry mastery, leadership talents, industry value or net worth, impeccable strategies for success and potential in an international forum.

CellPay and Klarna have partnered to offer consumers more flexible payment options.

America’s most recognised conference for risk management professionals returns to New York on the 20 October in a live format, collating five Risk.net events under one roof - Risk USA, ESG & Climate Risk USA, Buy-Side Risk USA, Quant Summit USA and FX Markets USA.

Open banking-powered fintech Currensea has secured £2.4m from leading Venture Capitalists Blackfinch Ventures and 1818 Venture Capital which will be used to accelerate the fintech’s ambitious growth plans.

As a recognised and long-standing player in all aspects of merchant services and card payments’ processing in France, Societe Generale provides both online and in-store payment solutions.

HPS, the leading global provider of payment solutions and services, today announces it has obtained a principal membership license from Visa, the world leader in digital payments, which will enable HPS’ clients to join the global Visa payments network.

Treasury Prime, a leading Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) company, today announced a partnership with Bangor Savings Bank to deliver its award-winning BaaS offerings to the bank and companies it partners with in the financial services industry.