Hester Peirce used her penultimate week as an SEC commissioner to urge replacing bulk KYC collection with zero-knowledge proofs of eligibility. She filed no proposal and spoke for herself, so the collection rules she criticized stay as written.
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Nu Holdings, the reported bidder behind an £8 billion to £10 billion Monzo valuation, said in a Sept. 30 filing that it is not pursuing a deal. Monzo's board now has to find that price among investors buying stakes of up to 15%.
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Monzo is in early talks to sell to Nubank at a reported £8bn to £10bn, against a £4.5bn valuation from an October 2024 employee share sale. A deal would likely end its plans to float, costing London one of the fintech listings officials hoped would revive a depleted market.
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Revolut charges merchants 0% processing fees on face-scan payments in a UK pilot built around Revolut Register, its point-of-sale device for hospitality. The waiver costs Revolut only as much as shoppers pay by face, a demand one Celent analyst calls unproven.
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Fraudsters posing as a verified government requester tricked Revolut into handing over sensitive records on about 640 customers. The breach defeated a human process.
Argentina's central bank approved Revolut's purchase of BNP Paribas's Banco Cetelem unit, handing the 80-million-customer fintech a banking licence there. Argentine press reports place a consumer launch in 2027, so the new bank starts life licensed but closed to the public.
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Revolut says an impersonation scam used a legitimate government agency domain to ask for customer records, and the fix it has described is blocking one email address. It has not said how many customers were affected.
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The request came from an unauthorized account on a real government domain, and Revolut acted on it. The company calls the number of affected customers limited, and it declined to say how many or name the agency.
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The fraudulent request passed domain authentication because it genuinely came from the agency's mail domain, sent by an account the agency had not authorised. Revolut found out only when it called the agency to check.
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The group calling itself iamnotavillain wants 6,000 Monero within 24 hours and Revolut says no demand has reached it. The data went out through a government email account the bank was obliged to answer.
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DriveWealth's September breach reached records on Revolut's UK, EEA and Australian customers that Revolut stopped sending 15 to 33 months earlier. Revolut's new trading model cut off fresh transfers but left older copies with the broker, where an intrusion could still reach them.
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Revolut answered fraudulent information requests sent from a real government email account for months. A group calling itself iamnotavillain now wants about $3 million in Monero for the roughly 680 customer files.
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Revolut's Pay with Smile is running at Kiss the Hippo cafes in London, matching a customer's face at the counter against the ID selfie they uploaded when they opened their account, with no processing fee for the merchant.
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Barney Wragg's Unit1 has money from Balderton Capital and U2's former manager to build hyper-realistic digital performers. Its first test rebuilt a KT Tunstall television appearance from twenty years ago.
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- Hype gap+38
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Malwarebytes found smishing texts exploiting Revolut's breach within two days of the bank confirming it. The phishing flow asks for the phone camera and imitates the bank's own video identity check.
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CVE-2026-76461 is one of three flaws confirmed under active attack in a single week. Revolut's customer records left by a different route, a request sent from an email address on a government agency's own domain.
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Colombia's approval is Revolut's sixth banking licence and the FINMA filing would be its seventh. The same week, the bank was still working through a fraudulent legal request it honoured from a real government domain.
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- Hype gap+20
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Nik Storonsky called a London listing "just not rational" in 2024 over the 0.5% stamp duty that is still charged today, and he now tells Les Echos that Revolut, valued at $115bn, plans to list in London as well as on the Nasdaq.
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- Adoption28
- Hype gap+22
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- Confidence55
A hacker used a government employee's infostealer-compromised mailbox to send fraudulent requests to Revolut's Lithuanian subsidiary for about five months, and roughly 680 customers' passports and financial data went out.
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- Adoption55
- Hype gap+20
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- Confidence50
Revolut says its own systems were not breached; the fraudulent European Investigation Orders arrived from an authentic pec.interno.it mailbox, and the actor behind them claims six months inside Italian law-enforcement systems.
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- Hype gap+15
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