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Cybersecurity Concerns as Blockchain Lands in Global Finance

3 Oct 2025 1 minute read 14 comments Matthew Rosenquist $0.14

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) and over 30 banks servicing 200 countries, have announced they will develop a blockchain global shared digital ledger to support global payments. SWIFT will integrate the bloc...

Chainlink Quietly Becomes The $150 Trillion Backbone of Banking

1 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Myxoplixx $0.14

Chainlink’s role in global finance is expanding quietly but aggressively. The same day SWIFT announced progress on blockchain settlement, UBS completed a pilot program that ran directly on Chainlink infrastructure. At the center of it all lies a stag...

How Automation Transformed Finance: From the 1950s to 2030s

26 Aug 2025 3 minute read 0 comments cravingcrypto $0.01

Finance has come a long way. What began with the first check-processing systems has grown into today’s intelligent platforms that make decisions in real time. Along the way, automation has not just made things faster, it has reshaped the entire indus...

DeFi vs. Traditional Banks: Where Can US Residents Get Better Loans or Savings? (A Practical Comparison)

1 Aug 2025 3 minute read 0 comments QuantumQuill $0.10

Hey there! If you're living in the U.S. and have ever searched for "high-yield savings" or "quick loans without credit checks," you’ve probably stumbled upon the term DeFi. Promises of 10%, 15%, even 20% returns sound unreal when your bank pays 0.01%...

Bankers Association’s Attack on Cybersecurity Transparency

25 Jun 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist $0.07

A coalition of banking industry associations, including SIFA, the American Bankers Association (ABA), Bank Policy Institute (BPI), and several other lobbying groups have made a disgraceful appeal to the SEC to eliminate the rule requiring public dis...

Maximizing Your Money: Capital One Online Banking for Cashback Rewards

18 Jun 2025 3 minute read 1 comment TheDarkSage $0.07

What’s goin on, Traders? At some point, we all want to exchange our crypto for cash, and some of us want to get crypto back on purchases rather than cash. Well, several banks do just that, and more will join the game as adoption becomes more mainstre...

How Revolut Makes Millions Off Crypto-Idiots

12 Jun 2025 2 minute read 7 comments Mr_Reaper $0.35

“Buy a token in one click” — and become a row in someone’s profit spreadsheet. 🤖 This Isn't Crypto — It's a Simulation Let’s get this straight: you’re not buying real crypto on Revolut. You don’t have private keys You can’t withdraw to your w...

Savings Accounts are Actually Paying

9 Jun 2025 4 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti $0.08

First, 4 percent is a very small return, by any measure. So let's just be clear on that. It doesn't even keep pace with inflation. However, during periods of high risk or, where people just want their liquid cash to earn something while keeping it sa...

Bankers Association’s attack on cybersecurity transparency

3 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist $0.15

My article on Help Net Security highlighting how the banking industry is leveraging their powerful lobbying groups to try and undermine the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 4-day cybersecurity reporting rule, which has been in place for over...

Shameful Lobbying: Bankers Association’s Attack on Cybersecurity Transparency

30 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist $0.10

Banking industry lobbyists are pressuring the SEC to gut the four-day breach disclosure rule — an essential safeguard for shareholders and potential victims. Their arguments are misleading, self-serving, and designed to protect profits over public t...