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The new reality for acquirers: blocking transactions that trigger card scheme penalties

Picture this: Your payments team starts the week with what looks like a routine performance review. Authorization rates are slightly off. A handful of merchants are seeing more retries than usual. Declines are climbing in one segment of the portfolio. But nothing looks catastrophic…yet. Then the warning signs start stacking up. An AI-driven BIN attack has quietly pushed enumeration activity higher. A few merchants are generating abnormal dispute patterns.

Michael Shaulov on Bloomberg: Introducing Flow for Stablecoins

Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov sat down with Bloomberg at Money 20/20 Europe to launch Flow, a new product that lets payment companies, merchants, and fintechs accept and send stablecoins as simply as Plaid streamlined traditional payments. He breaks down where stablecoin demand is actually coming from, why cross-border corridors are driving adoption, and what a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin could mean for dollar dominance.

Trustcraft: How we build AI products at Vanta

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

One Thousand Days of Rising Cyber Risk: The Boardroom's New Reality

I recently wrote about how today’s cyber risk is defined less by breakthrough innovation and more by the industrialization of existing weaknesses. Given this, I wanted to dig a little deeper. Over a weekend I conducted some analysis on a longitudinal Aggregate Cyber Risk Index that scores six core threat vectors daily for 1,000 days on a 0–100 scale, drawing on six macro categories.

Crowdsourced Chaos: The Evolution of NoName057(16) and Why DDoS Resilience Matters

According to Bitsight Threat Intelligence, NoName057(16) remains one of the most visible pro-Russian hacktivist groups conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against countries and organizations perceived as supporting Ukraine. This matters because the risk can extend beyond direct business ties to Ukraine, and the group may also target organizations that do business with vendors, suppliers, partners, or service providers perceived as supporting Ukraine.

DPDP Compliance in 2026: The Complete Guide for Tech Leaders

If you run engineering, security, or compliance at an Indian tech company, DPDP compliance is knocking at your door fresh and clean in less than a year. Our aim is not to present scary statistics but to help you recognize the urgency of the matter and become DPDP compliant at the earliest. Since this law safeguards a nation’s data, the DPBI can thus stack penalties across multiple contraventions in a single incident. So stop debating whether the law applies to you; it almost certainly does.