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Following a targeted report on VASPs and digital assets, the FATF [Financial Action Task Force], a global coordinator of financial standards and illicit activity, has filed a report on decentralized finance, or DeFi. FATF standards are followed, and at times adhered to, by approximately 200 countries. The targeted report on DeFi highlights the ‘regulatory challenges”…

The couple said on social media that they will soon go live on Gosh Live to talk about life after the Empire State Building incident and the questions they want to answer directly. Safety note: Gosh does not encourage or endorse dangerous, illegal or unauthorised activities. The livestream is intended solely as an entertainment and…

Everyone has bills to pay, and two payments companies are making moves to make that chore as easy as possible. Repay Holdings Corp. is working with SBT, or Solutions by Text, to enable financial-services providers to offer payment via text messages. Separately, InvoiceCloud Inc. is working with public-sector software specialist CentralSquare Technologies LLC to provide…

Mashreq Al Islami secured the Middle East’s best Islamic digital bank award on the back of a transformation that moved Islamic banking from a parallel offering to a fully scaled, end‑to‑end digital franchise. During the review period, the bank demonstrated that Shariah‑compliant banking can be delivered at speed, at scale and profitably, while meeting some…

Jewelry retailer Chow Tai Fook has deployed more than 400 artificial intelligence agents to support more than 24,000 employees, and none of them talk to customers directly. Sales associates use the system, called AI Fook, to pull product details, check inventory and generate recommendations in seconds. Previously, this work meant stepping away from the customer…