Reap, the Hong Kong payments firm acquired by Payward in July, has launched a managed card fraud service that runs an entire card programme's fraud and risk operations on the client's behalf. The product, Reap Sentry, configures fraud rules, screens authorisations in real time, investigates alerts, processes chargebacks and reports confirmed fraud to Visa, all through a single API. It is Reap's first significant product launch since it became part of Payward, the parent compa

As of this week, September 2026, banks are living through a security stress test they cannot outsource. Deepfake-as-a-service is cheaper than a Netflix subscription, DORA's grace period is over, and the EU digital identity wallet is landing on citizens' phones. Here is what the week actually tells us. The week the theoretical threats stopped being theoretical Cybersecurity in financial services has always had a rhetorical problem. The threats sound cinematic, the controls sou

Zurich Insurance Group has selected WTW's Radar as the rating and pricing engine for its retail insurance business worldwide, extending a relationship that previously covered only a handful of country markets into a single global standard. The decision hands WTW the pricing infrastructure behind a retail book that Zurich has valued at roughly USD 16 billion, and it follows what the two firms describe as a competitive selection process. For finance professionals, the substance

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The Vault, a Swiss and EU regulated digital asset custody platform, has built the multi-party computation (MPC) cryptography that governs who can move client assets, taking a component most rivals license from an outside vendor and bringing it in house. The library has now passed an independent security review by blockchain security firm Halborn, whose final report this week confirmed that every finding raised during the engagement had been fixed and verified, with the last i

As of this week, September 2026, the payments industry is no longer arguing about whether stablecoins, instant rails and agentic commerce will reshape money movement. It is arguing about who runs the plumbing, who pays the compliance bill, and how quickly the incumbents can catch up. The week payments stopped pretending Payments used to be a boring compliance topic. That era is officially over. In the last seven days alone, a top-five American bank has settled a live cross-bo