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Trulioo AI Agent Hunts Beneficial Owners Registries Miss
Trulioo’s AI agent maps hidden beneficial owners across messy registries, raising the bar for KYB teams fighting fraud.

Uncertainty Economy Hooks Apps on Suspense and Risk
Suspense is becoming the product. Betting, trading and shopping apps use unresolved outcomes to keep users coming back.

Mastercard Virtual Cards Lock Down B2B Spend Controls
Mastercard is turning virtual cards into programmable B2B spend infrastructure, with tighter controls, one API and embedded payments.

$15M Bet Pulls Bitcoin Quantum Security Into Spotlight
$15M from BlackRock, Coinbase and Strategy gives Bitcoin quantum security a head start before cryptography becomes a crisis.

Mastercard Bets the Creator Economy Needs Real Banking
Mastercard and Manifest are treating creators like real SMBs, bundling payouts, fraud tools and global payments into a business debit card.

Ethics Fight Threatens Crypto Clarity Act Before Recess
Lummis released a revised crypto Clarity Act, but ethics language and Democratic doubts threaten its path before Senate recess.

Key Democrats Throw Crypto Clarity Act Into Ethics Peril
Key Senate Democrats say the Crypto Clarity Act still fails on ethics, putting the bill's bipartisan path at risk.

Ethics Ban Rescues Clarity Act From Senate Collapse
The Clarity Act's Senate path now hinges on an ethics ban aimed at official-backed tokens and Democratic worries over Trump-linked crypto.

Santander Webster Deal Hits Washington with $12.3B at Stake
Santander has ECB approval for its $12.3B Webster deal, but Washington gets the final say as politics crowd the timeline.

Crypto Infrastructure Choke Points May Freeze Digital Assets
Crypto’s biggest threat may be concentration, not unclear rules, as stablecoins, custody and liquidity cluster around a few firms.

Old Rails Trap Real-Time Payments in CFO Workflow Limbo
Real-time payments don't just need faster rails. They need to beat finance teams' trusted workflows and on-time routines.

$3,800 Cap Splits Russia Crypto Law Into Winners, Losers
Russia’s new crypto law caps retail buyers at $3,800 per intermediary while opening a state-supervised route for foreign trade.