Fintech Confidential

What if the biggest change in money doesn’t look exciting at all? What if the real signal is that nobody talks about it anymore? Tedd Huff, CEO of Voalyre, raised the big question in Leaders One on One, and Nik Milanović, Founder of This Week in Fintech and Stablecon, gave an answer that should make bank leaders, fintech founders, and product teams stop and think. He wasn’t talking about hype. He was talking about adoption becoming normal. Nik Milanović said, "all of a sudden it's gonna feel like overnight every financial institution is just using stable coins and using blockchain." That’s the part a lot of people probably miss. The end state may not feel dramatic to the customer at all. It may just feel like payments work better, settlement happens faster, and fewer people need to explain why money is delayed. 📍 Stablecoins may become standard bank infrastructure 📍 Customer experience may feel mostly unchanged 📍 The biggest shift may happen behind the scenes 📍 Payments teams will need new operating assumptions 📍 Banks that wait too long may lose ground quietly Tedd Huff does a good job pulling practical answers out of big topics, and Nik Milanović makes a strong point here. The market may spend years talking about stablecoins, then wake up and realize they’re already built into everyday finance. Would your company know how to respond if stablecoins became standard faster than expected? #Fintech #Stablecoins #Blockchain #Banking #CryptoPayments #CrossBorderPayments #PaymentInfrastructure #TreasuryManagement #LeadersOneOnOne #TeddHuff #NikMilanovic #Voalyre #ThisWeekInFinTech #Stablecon Tedd Huff DD3 Media Fintech Confidential Voalyre

For Victor D. Lombard (DIVINE), CEO and Co-Founder of Notes, tech isn’t a luxury, it’s survival. He grew up watching his community get left out of banks, services, and opportunities. So he built something that opened the door for others who’ve been overlooked for far too long. 📩 Get more stories like this weekly: https://lnkd.in/g98UMh5r 1️⃣ He started with Blak 2️⃣ He evolved through Solvent 3️⃣ He built Notes to scale access for those left behind In this episode of Fintech Confidential, hosted by Tedd Huff CEO of Voalyre, you’ll hear what it takes to go from locked out to leading the charge. Victor’s vision is about ownership, equity, and tools that actually work for regular people. This one will change how you think about building. #Fintech #Leadership #TechForGood #Startup #BlackFounders #BusinessSuccess #CEO #Entrepreneurship #FounderFocus #UnderservedCommunities #WealthCreation #FinancialInclusion #Equity #NotesApp #FinancialServices #PodcastHighlight #BusinessAccess #TeddHuff #FintechConfidential #CommunityImpact #MoneyMatters #BankingSolutions #StartupPodcast #RealLeadership #UnderrepresentedVoices Tedd Huff DD3 Media Voalyre Fintech Confidential

Our Las Vegas Studio is getting an upgrade just in time for Fintech Meetup next week. Looking forward to hosting a number of guests during the week. Want to sit down with Tedd Huff of Voalyre and Fintech Confidential in studio send us a DM to schedule time.

Are merchant payouts about to move a lot faster than most teams expected? On Web3 with Fintech Confidential, Tedd Huff talks with Keith Vander Leest, US General Manager at BVNK, about why stablecoin payments matter in issuing and merchant acquiring. Keith Vander Leest of BVNK said, "On the issuing side the issuer can settle 24/7." That line matters because timing changes operations. If an issuer can settle all day, every day, the pressure on old funding schedules starts to loosen. This is where the conversation gets useful. Teams that issue cards or manage payout flows care about speed, funding pressure, and what happens over weekends. 📍 24/7 settlement changes issuer operations 📍 Faster merchant payouts improve cash access 📍 Weekend settlement reduces waiting time 📍 Stablecoin payment rails can ease funding friction Tedd keeps the focus on practical use cases, and Keith gives a grounded answer that payment leaders can actually use. That makes this one worth paying attention to if you work in issuing, acquiring, treasury, or merchant services. If your team could settle 24/7, what would you fix first? #Fintech #StablecoinPayments #MerchantPayouts #Issuing #Acquiring #Payments #OnChainSettlement #Web3 #FintechConfidential #TeddHuff Tedd Huff DD3 Media Fintech Confidential

Since the original Handala “we hacked Verifone” claim dropped, there has been very little in the way of hard new facts. The core picture is basically unchanged: - Handala continues to list Verifone as a victim and circulate screenshots that appear to show internal admin interfaces. - Verifone has said it has found no evidence of an intrusion tied to this claim and reports no service disruption to clients. - Independent analysts and threat‑intel teams still classify this as a claimed incident with no independent technical verification of payment‑system impact. - Law enforcement and media attention around Handala over the last week has focused on the confirmed Stryker attack and the FBI seizure of Handala’s leak domains, not on new Verifone evidence. Bottom line: as of today, the Verifone situation remains a claimed, not confirmed, breach. We’re continuing to track primary sources, threat‑intel reporting, and any payment‑network or regulatory moves; if this ever shifts from allegation to something independently corroborated, you’ll see a fresh update here.

One of the Biggest Names in Payments Just Got Called Out by Hackers,  and the Details Are Worth a Closer Look. This one caught my attention early this morning, and I haven't stopped  watching it since. On March 11, Iran-linked hacktivist group Handala Hack  publicly claimed they breached Verifone's systems in Israel and extracted  transaction and financial data. Screenshots with a Handala Hack logo overlay,  appearing to show Verifone internal systems, are already circulating, and  The Register confirmed they viewed them directly. Verifone responded quickly. In a statement to The Register, a spokesperson  said: "We have observed recent allegations on March 11, 2026 from threat  actors claiming an intrusion into our systems in Israel. Verifone has found  no evidence of any incident related to this claim and has no service  disruption to our clients." That is the right statement to make, and it may well be accurate. Handala  has a track record of overstating the scope and severity of their claims. What makes this harder to simply move past: this claim is running alongside  a confirmed Handala attack on Stryker, the global medtech company, which  acknowledged a real network disruption on the same day. That context matters. Verifone is deployed across the payment environments of merchants, acquirers,  processors, and financial institutions globally. Their POS terminals are in  more checkout lanes, fuel stations, and retail locations than most people  realize. Even an unconfirmed claim at this scale gets risk and compliance  teams moving fast. For anyone running Verifone-connected environments right now: review remote  access controls, validate your monitoring coverage, and confirm your incident  response plan is current. Good operational hygiene, not panic. We'll keep tracking this and share updates through Fintech Confidential as  credible information surfaces. Payments and fintech community, I want to hear from you: - Are you seeing any unusual activity in your Verifone environments? - What questions are your compliance and risk teams asking right now? - How are you communicating this to leadership and clients? Drop your thoughts below. 👇 This one is worth watching. Source: The Register, March 11, 2026 https://lnkd.in/gPuZUY4w #Fintech #Payments #Cybersecurity #Verifone #FintechConfidential  #PaymentSecurity #RiskManagement #BankingTech

What happens when your AI strategy collects everything, and still tells you nothing useful? That gap is where most teams lose time, money, and trust. On Fintech Confidential, Leaders One on One, Tedd Huff, CEO of Voalyre, sat down with Mamta Rodrigues, Chief Client Officer of Banking at TP, and the point hit hard. Mamta said: “So the so what is why it's so important is it's the personal effect, It's personalizing what you get Tedd versus what I get at the end of the day.” That line matters. Because AI in finance, banking AI, and customer personalization only work when the output changes based on the person in front of you. Too many teams stop at dashboards. They can see activity. They can count events. They can report trends. They still can't answer the real question, which is, what should happen next for this customer right now? Tedd pushes into that issue in this episode. Mamta Rodrigues, Chief Client Officer of Banking at TP, brings it back to the consumer view, and honestly, that's where more leaders need to focus. 📍 Data has to lead to action 📍 Personalization has to feel relevant 📍 Consumer context has to shape the offer 📍 AI models need clear business purpose 📍 Teams need to define the “so what” early This is where a lot of AI pilots fail. They start with access to data, then stall because nobody tied the data to a decision, a product moment, or a customer need. That's expensive. And it's avoidable. If you're building AI in banking, customer experience in finance, or personalization programs, ask yourself one simple thing. Can your team explain the “so what” in one sentence? What’s one customer signal your business collects today, and still doesn’t use well? #AIinFinance #AIinBanking #Fintech #Banking #Payments #CustomerExperience #Personalization #DataAnalytics #FinancialServices #TeddHuff #Voalyre #FintechConfidential #LeadersOneOnOne #TP Tedd Huff DD3 Media Fintech Confidential