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Hey politicians, don't forget about our children! America's youngsters are not properly protected in cyberspace. Their safety and wellbeing should be a regulatory priority for federal and state lawmakers.

Payments in the metaverse are going to be huge, but they will probably won’t have much to do with cryptocurrency (or people).

After announcing a rescue acquisition of FTX, Binance has pulled out of the deal citing concerns about their business practices and ongoing investigations from US regulators.

China's fintech crackdown has slowed, but not stopped the Big techs like Ant Group and Tencent.

There have been new rumors surface that Musk may be considering putting the entire Twitter platform behind a paywall.

Mark Zuckerberg has admitted hiring too fast in the high growth pandemic years, and the company now needs to scale back to improve profitability.

After days of swirling rumors about a liquidity crisis at FTX, Binance has stepped in at the last minute to acquire the company and save it from collapse.

Money20/20 US was back in full force this year, and in practically every regard, this felt like a pre-pandemic event.

With a trio of ex-PayPal executives at its helm, financial data aggregator MX is making a big push to up its game in the open banking space. Plaid and others aren't sitting idly by, however.

Open banking is either the most over-hyped trend in Asia, or the most under-estimated. In either case, banks will need to be able to have the core-system agility to be able to deal with a whole new paradigm.

Elon Musk's plan to charge Twitter users with a verified blue check mark $8 a month is doomed to fail. What Twitter should do is charge users by the number of followers they have.

CEO Patrick Collison acknowledged missteps Stripe management has made over the past two and a half years, saying the company “overhired” during the pandemic.

The Twitter and Block billionaire made Cash App into a $700 million monster. Now police officers, nonprofit critics and current and former employees say it’s struggling to fight “rampant” criminality.

If you are worried about DeFi’s war with cyber-hackers, take a deep breath. Quantum computing is coming and could render today’s digital cryptography used in DeFi and Web3 useless. When is the right time to start making Web3 quantum cyber-resilient if not now?

Buy now pay later has grown rapidly in Asia, but will the growth continue? Share prices have already cratered in Australia - other markets may not be far behind.

I argued that successful startups had at least one of the three, and particularly one of the first two: distribution or data. But which is most important?

With the average return on equity (ROE) for the top 250 banks globally was at 6.29% in 2020, digital transformation to improve customer service and reduce costs is imperative.