Operational-risk is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
MANTRA Chain has frozen the network and halted all transactions due to an undisclosed incident.
Small-scale payments look smooth, but scaling introduces non-linear operational and regulatory challenges.
Argues that regulatory licenses, long seen as fintech moats, may obscure fundamental operational risks that scale with growth.
The piece argues that fraud contamination inflates apparent credit losses in UK lending and has implications for risk models, provisioning, and capital.
UK bank payment outages hit several lenders (Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC/Halifax, Monzo) due to a Faster Payments issue, causing delays and potential duplicate transfers.
Bluesky attributes ongoing outages to a DDoS attack starting around 3 a.m. ET on April 15.
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