Visa Targets Upstream Cyber Threats to Curb Fraud Risk
Visa has introduced a new commercial offering aimed at enabling financial institutions to detect and mitigate cyber threats before they escalate into fraud and financial damage.
Across the corporate finance landscape, fraud is increasingly understood as the downstream result of earlier, often avoidable, cyber incidents.
These breaches frequently originate from compromised data, stolen credentials or exploited systems long before any fraudulent transaction occurs, according to the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
The Visa Threat Intelligence Platform (VTIP) provides clients with direct access to the same advanced cybersecurity capabilities Visa deploys to protect its extensive global payments infrastructure.
Unveiled at the Visa Payments Forum (VPF) in Paris, the announcement coincides with broader developments, including progress in agentic commerce.
The Paris forum opened with remarks from Visa President Oliver Jenkyn and CTO Rajat Taneja, with Rajat emphasising that "trust is the very foundation of commerce".
VEON Expands its Digital Finance Strategy with Mastercard
VEON has entered into a new strategic collaboration with Mastercard to expand its role beyond telecoms into a broader digital ecosystem that is increasingly anchored in financial services.
The Nasdaq-listed global digital operator serves hundreds of millions of customers across Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan.
The agreement brings together VEON’s local digital platforms, extensive customer reach and data capabilities with Mastercard’s global payments network and financial technology expertise. It aims to accelerate the rollout of inclusive and intelligent financial solutions tailored to markets where access to traditional banking remains limited.
AIB: Engineering Trust Through Tech in the AI Banking Era
AIB is entering its next phase of digital banking with a clear proposition: combining trust, scale and operational discipline with a platform-led approach to innovation.
For Graham Fagan, Chief Operating Officer at AIB, the past three years have been less about isolated transformation programmes and more about resetting how the bank delivers change at scale.
“It’s been a very consequential period in terms of laying the foundations for the next decade,” he explains.
“Culturally, it’s been about bringing the organisation on a journey around being much more digitally literate – not just AI but data and just general digital capabilities.”
That shift has been formalised through the integration of technology and operations into a single function under his leadership.
The result is a more unified delivery model designed to accelerate execution while maintaining stability.
Graham adds: “We’ve been on a journey to create a transformation engine for the bank as it comes into its next strategic cycle.”
Revolut Rethinks Remote Work for Graduate Talent
What happens when a headline hiring perk is quietly rolled back?
Revolut is about to test that question.
The fintech is dropping its "remote-first" approach for graduate recruits, who from 2027 will be expected to spend a minimum of three days per week in the office, according to the Financial Times.
It marks a notable shift for a company that has promoted flexible work as a key differentiator, positioning it under the line “No ping pong tables or bean bag chairs, just benefits you actually want”, while also allowing employees to work overseas for up to 120 days annually.
CEO Nik Storonsky has been one of the most vocal advocates of remote work, previously championing it publicly.
He told staff last year that Revolut prioritised output over location, maintaining that the policy would remain in place as long as productivity held firm.
With more than 300 graduates and interns joining the business this year, the change goes to the heart of its employer brand.
Money20/20: The Role Elastic Plays in Fintech Infrastructure
Elastic is a foundational layer for financial services firms navigating the dual pressures of scale and complexity.
Speaking with FinTech Magazine at Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, Arno van de Velde, Principal Solution Architect at Elastic, outlined how the company’s search-led architecture is increasingly underpinning everything from fraud detection to AI-driven decision-making across fintech.
Elastic’s technology is widely deployed across industries, but its role in financial services is often less visible. As Arno explains, the company’s strength lies in its flexibility.
“We’re a search company doing basically everything for search, observability and security across the globe, across all kinds of sectors and doing a lot for finance,” Arno says.
In fintech, that capability has evolved from core logging infrastructure into a broader platform supporting diverse use cases.
He adds: “So whether it’s detecting fraud, helping banks move transactions faster or searching for information or getting a similar result – those are all part of the same stack that we can deploy and have with customers to make their lives better.”
