SoftBank and its payments subsidiary PayPay are reportedly in preliminary talks to invest in Seven & i Holdings, the parent company of 7-Eleven, according to Bloomberg. No deal size or structure has been confirmed. The potential investment would deepen an existing partnership between PayPay and Seven-Eleven Japan, giving the payments network deeper access to one of Japan's largest retail footprints. PayPay, which listed on Nasdaq in March raising ~$880m and valued at ~$12.7bn, has been aggressively expanding into insurance, banking, and securities. Seven & i is mid-restructuring after rejecting a takeover bid from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard. A combined payments-retail play would give PayPay access to high-frequency transaction data across 20,000+ Japanese stores.
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Fintech security teams face compounding cloud risks from misconfigurations, lateral movement, compliance obligations (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, DORA), and third-party supply chain exposure. The post covers each risk category and maps it to platform capabilities: agentless SideScanning™ for workload-level visibility without agent overhead, automated compliance mapping across 180+ frameworks, DSPM for detecting exposed credentials and PII inside workloads, and attack path visualization for lateral movement. A comparison table contrasts agent-based vs. agentless deployment, and the post concludes by positioning Orca Security's CNAPP as a consolidated solution for all these risk categories.
A hands-on walkthrough of using ClickHouse to store and query historical cryptocurrency tick data from Binance's public archive. Covers loading 16.2 billion rows of trades and quotes for five futures pairs, achieving a 19x compression ratio (191 GiB raw CSV down to ~10 GiB) using columnar storage and codecs like DoubleDelta and LowCardinality. Demonstrates practical financial queries in standard SQL: VWAP calculation, OHLC candle generation, and ASOF JOINs to match trades with contemporaneous quotes for slippage analysis. Shows how ClickHouse's primary index on (symbol, ts) allows queries to skip 99.999% of data even on a 16-billion-row dataset, keeping latency consistent. Storage cost on ClickHouse Cloud for 10 months of data works out to under $2/month.
Axos Financial, ngân hàng số Mỹ sở hữu ~29 tỷ USD tài sản, vừa mua lại Arc Technologies, một fintech chuyên về AI cung cấp công cụ quản lý tiền mặt, tài trợ nợ và tài chính tác nhân (agentic finance) cho các startup công nghệ. Arc sở hữu nền tảng tích hợp AI CFO tên Archie, và thương vụ này kết hợp phần mềm tinh chỉnh cùng khách hàng startup của Arc với giấy phép ngân hàng và bảng cân đối tài sản của Axos.
Lập trình viên AI hãy chú ý đến cách kết hợp công nghệ AI với hệ thống tài chính truyền thống để tạo ra giải pháp thực tế, vì đây là xu hướng mới của ngành, giúp họ hiểu rõ hơn về ứng dụng thực tế của AI trong lĩnh vực tài chính và có thể tìm kiếm cơ hội hợp tác hoặc phát triển sản phẩm tương tự trong tương lai.
Wealthtec Holdings, một công ty dịch vụ tài chính Nam Phi, đã chuyển hạ tầng sang Google Cloud, Google Workspace Enterprise và ChromeOS với sự hỗ trợ từ Radical Cloud Solutions. Việc triển khai hơn 300 thiết bị Chrome cho nhân viên trung tâm cuộc gọi đã cải thiện bảo mật dữ liệu, tuân thủ quy định, giảm chi phí quản lý IT và kéo dài tuổi thọ phần cứng, đồng thời đơn giản hóa quy trình onboard/offboard nhân viên.
Lập trình viên nên đọc bài này để hiểu cách tích hợp các giải pháp cloud và thiết bị di động như ChromeOS vào hệ thống quản lý dịch vụ tài chính, giúp tối ưu hóa hiệu suất, an toàn dữ liệu và giảm chi phí vận hành thông qua các giải pháp tự động hóa và đơn giản hóa.
Elastic Security Labs has uncovered a banking malware campaign (REF6045) targeting Mexican financial sector customers using ClickFix social engineering. Victims are lured to fake CAPTCHA pages and tricked into pasting malicious PowerShell commands into the Windows Run dialog. The installed SCMBANKER toolkit establishes persistence, captures keystrokes, monitors banking sessions, manipulates clipboard contents, and can deploy remote access software. Researchers also found evidence of LLM-assisted malware development. Recommended defenses include user training on fake CAPTCHA recognition, restricting PowerShell and Windows Run dialog usage, and deploying EDR solutions.
Revolut has appointed Kuba Fast, former CEO of Chase UK (JPMorgan's British digital bank), as CEO of Revolut Bank UAB and head of European operations. Fast replaces Joe Heneghan, who has held the role since 2021. The appointment is pending approval from the ECB and Bank of Lithuania. Fast brings seven years at JPMorgan and prior experience at Polish digital lender mBank and McKinsey, with a background in central and eastern Europe — a region Revolut is targeting aggressively. The hire comes as Revolut expands from a payments app into a full-service bank across 30 EEA markets, having recently secured a UK banking licence and eyeing a US IPO in roughly two years.
Generating 500K unique financial news headlines for LLM fine-tuning is constrained by data imbalance and near-duplicate proliferation. A naive single-pass run of 50K headlines discards 65% as near-duplicates. This post details an iterative 82-round pipeline using NVIDIA NeMo Data Designer for structured generation, NeMo Curator for global semantic deduplication, and Nemotron-3-Nano-30B for inference. Key techniques include a farthest-from-centroid few-shot selection strategy to steer each round toward novel outputs, cross-iteration semantic filtering to prevent prompt repetition, and dynamic category weight correction to balance rare financial event types. The final corpus (502,536 headlines across 13 categories) was produced in ~6 days on a single 8-way NVIDIA B200 node. The dataset supports downstream model distillation where a 3B student model reaches 95% of a 70B teacher's F1-score with 25K labeled examples.
Dutch financial regulators, including De Nederlandsche Bank, are urging European banks to pool their procurement power when negotiating with US cloud giants AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The report warns that digital dependencies on American tech firms continue to grow despite years of EU rhetoric about strategic autonomy. AWS, Azure, and Google together hold over 70% of the European cloud market while European providers hold only ~15%. Collective bargaining could help banks secure better prices, stronger data guarantees, and real exit options. The recommendation also highlights legal risks from the US Cloud Act, which can compel American firms to hand over data regardless of storage location. However, the report acknowledges that pooled buying power can improve terms but cannot quickly create a European provider capable of replacing hyperscalers at banking scale.