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Xendit’s Indonesia Payout Outage Keeps Moving Between Exact Amount Bands
An Indonesia payout disruption at Xendit has evolved into something more unusual than a bank simply going offline: throughout October 10, the exact transaction-value ranges affected repeatedly changed, while the problem expanded from BNI into other banks and e-wallet destinations. The incident began late October 9 and remained active into October 11 WIB, with Xendit […]
Prop Trading
Are Prop Firms Brokers? Understanding the Difference
A retail prop firm can look almost identical to a broker: the same charts, the same forex pairs or futures contracts, the same buy and sell buttons, and sometimes the same trading platforms. But the legal relationship can be completely different. A broker generally executes or intermediates real customer transactions. A modern retail prop program […]
Market Analysis
Are Prop Firms Brokers? Understanding the Difference
A retail prop firm can look almost identical to a broker: the same charts, the same forex pairs or futures...
What Is a Stablecoin Depeg, and Can Investors Recover Their Money?
Three very different crises can produce the same 94-cent quote. The investor's outcome depends on redemption access, reserve losses and...
How to Identify a Crypto Scam Before Connecting Your Wallet
The dangerous step is often not connecting. It is the authority a website persuades you to sign next. A practical...
Why and How Crypto Exchanges and Brokers Are Using Behavioral Biometrics to Detect Fraud
Passwords, facial checks and two-factor authentication can prove that a customer has the right credentials. They cannot always prove that...
Are Prop Firms Brokers? Understanding the Difference
A retail prop firm can look almost identical to a broker: the same charts, the same forex pairs or futures...
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...