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A Pepkor investor says shareholders should have had a say on the Flash-Shop2Shop deal because CEO Pieter Erasmus has an indirect stake in the target.
Wise says third-party software produced incorrect tax statements for about 4,000 UK investment customers. The company is correcting records and discussing redress with HMRC.
U.S. regulators found systemic AML failures at American Express National Bank that delayed reporting of about $13 billion in suspected trade-based money laundering activity.
National Trading Standards says AI is making familiar scams more convincing and scalable, increasing pressure on payment firms to verify context rather than trust polished websites, voices or video.
EU supervisors say banks rank payment-solution dependencies among their biggest non-EU risks, sharpening the focus on concentration, contingency and exit planning.
Two convicted operators of a fake crypto investment scheme face £851,402 in confiscation orders after at least 65 investors lost £1.54 million.
A federal judge certified a class of U.S. card issuers that paid Apple Pay transaction fees, allowing shared antitrust claims to proceed without deciding liability.
Revolut’s Pay with Smile pilot deletes single-use facial embeddings after each check, but its privacy notice says transaction photos and related records are retained.
A US civil forfeiture case targets about $84.2 million in bank and USDT assets tied to Capstone, an intermediary used by EQIBank for dollar payment access.
A new UK-Cambodia agreement covers intelligence sharing, joint action, digital investigations and illicit-finance tracing, but leaves key delivery measures undisclosed.
FedNow is preparing message support for the US leg of cross-border payments, while correspondent banks will still handle movement outside the country.