News about FinTech
Moldovan scientists have outlined the main trends in Moldova’s economy. Despite the growth of certain sectors, Moldova’s economy faces serious external imbalances, which led to a record trade deficit of $7.1 billion in 2025.
AI has found many holes in computer security around the world. The heads of central banks in various countries and major banks are sounding the alarm. Decentralized finance is also adapting to the new AI reality.
Clothing resale platform Vinted has completed a large-scale secondary transaction worth €880 million, bringing the company’s market valuation to €8 billion. Demand for the offering significantly exceeded supply, which was one of the key signals of high interest of institutional investors in the company’s business.
The mechanisms for managing public funds and preventing financial irregularities will be strengthened through the implementation in Moldova of a new information system “Monitoring and Coordination of Counter Fraud”.
Several U.S. states are restricting the operation of prediction markets with billions of dollars in lawsuits. The US President has also joined in the criticism.
ForkLog portal used Bitget as an example to understand how cryptocurrency exchanges are turning into global financial supercaps.
Over the past 24 hours, the rate of the first cryptocurrency has risen by 4.7%. At the time of writing, the asset is trading at its highest level since the end of January – about $79,300.
The UK Ministry of Finance has presented a strategy for payment sector reform. The authorities plan to combine the regulation of traditional services, stablecoins and tokenized deposits into a single legal framework.
Jeff Bezos’ Amazon plans to invest up to $25 billion in startup Anthropic, strengthening its position in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence market. The deal becomes one of the largest in the industry and emphasizes the scale of competition between the tech giants.
Jeremy Allaire, CEO and co-founder of Circle Internet Group (issuer of the world’s second-largest steiblcoin USDC), said there is a “tremendous opportunity” to create a Chinese yuan-backed steiblcoin.
The National Bank of Moldova (NBM) is tightening consumer credit rules from June 2026 to prevent over-indebtedness of the population. The new measures include limiting the maximum term of consumer loans to 5 years, mortgage loans – to 30 years, and leasing – to 7 years. The list of income to be taken into account when assessing solvency has also been expanded. The relevant regulations have been approved and will enter into force in June 2026.
Interest-free offers of stores, interpreted as “goods on installments”, and other products of lending activities hidden from consumers’ eyes will come under the regulator’s close supervision. The National Financial Market Commission (NFMC) has developed a new regulatory framework for consumer credit agreements.
Tips for waiters and couriers can be received through the MIA system. More and more workers in the service sector are connecting this service, which allows them to receive instant transfers by QR code without commission.
Since its launch, there was a computational error in the bitcoin mining algorithm, which allowed to mine blocks at extremely high speeds. This was revealed by researcher Loic Morel.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Carreyrou of the New York Times has suggested that British cryptographer Adam Back may be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
The Asian artificial intelligence market is entering the center of global competition, as clearly demonstrated by the GITEX AI Asia 2026 forum held on April 9-10 in Singapore. It brought together more than 23,000 participants from 110 countries, including corporations, startups and investors, demonstrating the accelerating shift of technological leadership towards the Asia-Pacific region.
The procedure for paying for goods and/or services through the MIA instant payment system is simplified. Payments made through this system will be immediately reflected in the cashier’s check.
The MIA instant payment system, launched in 2024, has become widespread and is now used by almost 50% of the country’s adult population. The number of users exceeds 900 thousand. And the network has been expanded to more than 18 thousand outlets across the country.
Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (MSTR), believes bitcoin probably bottomed out in early February at the $60,000 level.
Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence (AI) technology company founded by former OpenAI employees and creator of a family of large language models collectively named Claude, has announced a partnership with Google and Broadcom for “several gigawatts” of next-generation TPU computing power planned to launch starting in 2027.
