The Green Sheet magazine is one of the most established publications in the payments and merchant acquiring space. The magazine is widely read by acquirers, banks, ISOs, fintech founders and industry leaders who follow real operational risks, regulatory changes and market shifts inside payments. The article explains why startups experience sudden account freezes and how banks interpret company activity, showing the real reasons these issues appear even when the business stays

Digital assets have moved from experiments to reality. they now influence how money moves, how companies handle liquidity, how costs are managed and how risks are governed. This shift is documented clearly in the GFTN Global Digital Assets Report 2025, which combines insights from regulators, central banks, global exchanges, FinTechs and policy bodies across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. The GFTN report shows clearly how complex and dangerous is the FinTech

Just two days ago, on November 28, 2025, the European Central Bank (ECB) dropped some exciting news - it opened a formal selection process for partners: all banks, payment providers, wallet developers, and merchants can have a say in the pilot program of the digital euro! Europe can now create its own digital cash infrastructure instead of relying indefinitely on foreign card networks, SWIFT and U.S.-dominated big-tech wallets. Since the partner onboarding starts next year an

We are humbled to win the Most Innovative Payments and Banking Education Award from Global Banking & Finance Review . This a recognition that captures the purpose behind everything we build. Our mission is to set standards and build an ethical and transparent payment and banking industry where everyone is properly trained and informed, and no one benefits from anyone's lack of knowledge. We build the standards of payment and banking education worldwide and giving profession

From the 1920s Great Depression to the Gold Standard, Bretton Woods, and the 2022 Terra/FTX collapse, history keeps teaching the same lesson: we cannot replace the banking system; we can only polish it into something better. By the late 2000s, many people understood that commercial banks create money when they lend and started to lose trust in centralized institutions. Crypto came as the utopian thinking that often returns after collapses: decentralized networks would remove

In this recent webinar by The Soltesz Institute , I talked to Anastasia Zencika  about the shortage of properly trained operational talent and the absence of any shared, reliable standard for education in this field. We talked about how most professionals in payments and banking still learn on the job from colleagues, sales pitches and conferences, and how this creates a costly foundation for businesses that move millions - inefficiently! We also discussed why companies strug