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The Financial Grid: What 600+ banks & corporates told us about their digital asset build

89% of banks have committed budget to digital asset infrastructure. Only 16% are in production. The Financial Grid, our January 2026 survey of 600+ C-suite leaders at banks and corporates, maps what sits between funded and live. Barnaby Nelson, CEO of the Value Exchange, whose team ran the research, joins Fireblocks' Tim Way to unpack the gap: the internal constraints, the custody decision at the foundation, and the one call that turns budget into production.

How Mobile App Agencies Use GPS and Fintech Expertise to Build Smarter Apps

What happens when an app knows not just who a user is, but where they are and how they'd prefer to pay? Location and financial technology stop behaving like separate features and start functioning as one connected layer of the experience. In a market like Melbourne, where mobile products increasingly need to work across commuting, retail, delivery, and everyday payments, that combination is often the difference between an app that feels genuinely useful and one that just checks boxes.

Cyber Threat Intelligence for Fintech: A Sector Built for Speed, Targeted for the Same Reason

UK fintech is one of the country's fastest-growing sectors, but its reliance on APIs, partnerships, and real-time data makes it a prime target for cybercriminals. This blog explores why fintechs are so exposed, what the latest UK data reveals about breach costs and supply chain risk, and how cyber threat intelligence helps firms grow securely.

AI Governance in Financial Services: The Use Case Sets the Rules

An AI governance framework tells a financial institution to inventory its systems, assess risk and document decisions. Consumer protection law tells it something different and considerably harder, which is that a model unable to produce specific reasons for a credit denial cannot lawfully be used to make one. ‍ That distinction is what separates AI governance in financial services from AI governance generally.

How to Use a VPS for Forex Trading Without Losing Control

Forex never really sleeps. While you are having dinner, driving home, or simply away from your computer, currency prices continue to move and automated trading systems can continue to monitor the market and send orders. So why should your trading platform depend on whether your home PC is switched on?

Your Invoice Fraud Controls Probably Never Look at the Signature

Business email compromise took $3 billion in reported losses during 2025, the second-largest category in the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center annual report after investment fraud. The same report logged 1,008,597 complaints and $20.877 billion in total losses, up 26% on the year before. The control most organisations built in response is a callback procedure. Payment details changed? Phone the supplier on a number you already had. That control works, and it's worth having.

AI Cyber Readiness for Financial Institutions

Advanced AI models are changing the cyber threat landscape by accelerating vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and attacker decision-making. Regulators like the ECB have made clear: action plans are necessary. Financial institutions need to understand whether their existing cyber risk programs can keep pace, not only across their own attack surface, but across the critical third parties and software dependencies they rely on.

CRQ Platform Comparison for Financial Services Organizations

‍Cyber risk quantification (CRQ) has moved from optional to operational in financial services. The average cost of a data breach in the sector reaches $5.56 million, and regulatory mandates including DORA, NYDFS Part 500, and SEC cyber disclosure rules demand quantified, defensible loss exposure figures the finance function can act on. ‍

Guide: Certificate-Based Authentication for Payment & Banking Infrastructure

Payment and banking infrastructure continues to grow. Bare-metal servers and mainframes now sit alongside Kubernetes clusters, microservice architectures, and CI/CD pipelines running across multiple clouds and on-prem data centers. Every new environment adds its own accounts, tokens, and access paths to manage. But because this infrastructure powers live transactions, there is no room for downtime or disruptions.

How Can an IBP Guide Connect Financial and Operational Drivers?

Finance and operations can drift apart even while serving one plan. Revenue goals may depend on capacity, labor, stock, quality, and delivery timing, yet those drivers often sit in separate models. Integrated business planning brings those signals into a shared routine. With clearer links between field activity and financial results, leaders can judge risk earlier, protect cash, and make practical choices before pressure reaches customers.