What Is a Licensed Crypto Payment Gateway?
More businesses want to accept crypto, but few want the legal and operational risk of handling it themselves. A crypto payment gateway sits between a merchant and the blockchain, accepting digital-asset payments and settling them in the currency the business actually wants. The word that matters most in 2026 is licensed: the difference between a compliant […]
What Makes a Regulated, Trusted Crypto Exchange?
Every major collapse in crypto’s short history has had the same root cause: customers trusted a platform that was neither properly regulated nor transparent about how it held their assets. In 2026 the bar has risen. Trust in a crypto exchange is no longer about brand or trading volume, it is about regulation, reserve transparency, custody design and how client funds […]
How AI and Machine Learning Are Transforming KYC Compliance
Know Your Customer (KYC) has long been the slowest, most expensive part of onboarding a financial customer. Manual review teams read documents, re-key data and chase exceptions, while applicants abandon the process and compliance costs climb. AI in KYC compliance is changing that equation, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to shrink onboarding from days to […]
KYC & KYB Automation: How It Works and Why It Matters
Verifying customers is mandatory; doing it manually no longer scales, and is increasingly indefensible. KYC and KYB automation replaces the spreadsheets, email chains and re-keyed registry data of traditional onboarding with a single digital workflow that verifies individuals and businesses, builds a risk profile, and keeps it current. For fintechs handling business customers and their owners, automation is what makes compliant […]
What Are Virtual Assets? VASPs & Regulation Explained (2026)
Virtual assets have moved from the fringes of finance to the centre of the regulatory agenda. Stablecoins, tokens and other digital-value instruments now move billions across borders every day, and supervisors expect any business that touches them to apply the same anti-money-laundering discipline as a bank. For fintechs building on digital-asset rails, understanding what a virtual asset […]
Top 5 KYB Software Providers in 2026
Choosing Best KYB software is one of the highest-leverage decisions a fintech, payments or embedded-finance team will make. Get it right and business onboarding is fast, compliant and largely automated; get it wrong and you inherit manual review queues, coverage gaps and regulatory exposure. This guide profiles five of the strongest providers in 2026 and sets out the criteria […]
Crypto Custody: How Institutions Secure Digital Assets
In crypto, ownership is defined by a single piece of information: the private key. Whoever controls the key controls the asset, which is why the old maxim runs, “not your keys, not your coins.” Crypto custody is the business of securing those keys. For institutions moving from experiment to allocation, getting custody right is not […]
KYC vs KYB: Key Differences, Requirements and Use Cases
KYC vs KYB is the key compliance difference this guide explains in more detail. If you have already read our explainer on what separates Know Your Customer from Know Your Business, this guide goes one level deeper. The conceptual difference is settled: KYC verifies individuals, while KYB verifies businesses and the people behind them. The […]
US Crypto Regulation 2026: Laws, Policy and Compliance
US crypto regulation in 2026 is moving from courtroom-led “regulation by enforcement” toward a written rulebook. For most of the last decade, US crypto policy was shaped more by enforcement actions than by clear statute. That era is now changing. Across 2025 and into 2026, the United States moved decisively toward clearer rules: one landmark […]
KYB vs KYC: What’s the Difference in Compliance?
KYB vs KYC is the foundation of every regulated financial relationship because both processes help answer the same question: can this customer be trusted? Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) are closely related but distinct compliance processes. The difference is simple to state and consequential to get wrong: KYC verifies people; KYB […]