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Xendit Logged 20 LinkAja QR Failures in 14 Hours
Xendit’s LinkAja QR payment channel failed and recovered 20 separate times on October 10, creating an unusual operational pattern in which most individual disruptions lasted only a few minutes but merchants repeatedly faced delayed payment-completion callbacks and post-incident reconciliation. The first recorded LinkAja QR incident began at 08:55 WIB and was marked resolved at 08:59. […]
Prop Trading
FundingPips Complaints Put Post-Evaluation KYC Timing Under Scrutiny
A fresh cluster of FundingPips customer complaints is raising a narrower question than whether the prop firm is refusing successful traders: why can some identity, duplicate-account and device-related problems apparently surface only after customers have spent time completing paid evaluations? Several traders posted complaints on October 10 involving account identity or access to Master Accounts. […]
Market Analysis
Crypto Perpetual Futures Explained: Funding Rates, Leverage, and Risks
Why a profitable Bitcoin trade can still lose money, why the liquidation price is not a stop-loss, and how to...
What Is an Offshore Forex Broker? Risks Explained
An offshore forex broker is not automatically a scam, and an onshore licence does not automatically make a broker safe....
How Passkeys Could Replace Passwords and OTPs in Banking
Passkeys can remove the two most phishable objects in digital banking - reusable passwords and manually entered one-time codes. But...
How Neobanks Make Money Without Branches
Branchless banking removes a visible cost center, but it does not create a business model. The economics come from interchange,...
How Does Visa Make Money if It Does Not Issue Credit Cards?
Visa's logo sits on nearly five billion payment credentials, but Visa does not lend the cardholder the money, set the...
How Forex Brokers Hedge Client Trades
A retail forex broker does not necessarily send every customer order into the institutional market. The more common process is...
What Is A-Book and B-Book Execution in Forex?
A-Book and B-Book are industry shorthand for what a forex or CFD broker does with the market risk created by...
What Is SWIFT and Does It Actually Move Money?
SWIFT is often described as the system that moves money around the world. That is convenient shorthand—and technically wrong. SWIFT...
What Is a Prediction Market and How Does It Work?
A prediction market turns uncertainty into a tradable price. Instead of asking people what they think will happen, it lets...
How Do Stablecoin Companies Make Money?
Circle, Tether and the PYUSD ecosystem show three different ways to monetize the same $1 promise A stablecoin company can...