Rosalia Mazza

FinTech writer, data scientist, and crypto trader. Passionate about fintech and obsessed with organic growth. Founder of The Bright Minded — because the good side of Fin-Tech deserves to be told.

Intesa Sanpaolo Google Cloud Migration: What Keeping 800 Banking Applications on Italian Soil Actually Secures

Intesa Sanpaolo Google Cloud Migration: What Keeping 800 Banking Applications on Italian Soil Actually Secures

Intesa Sanpaolo moved over 800 core banking applications to Google Cloud regions in Turin and Milan hosted by TIM. Here is what data residency secures.

Fable 5 Export Controls Lifted: Why Anthropic's Model Came Back One Government Decision at a Time

Fable 5 Export Controls Lifted: Why Anthropic's Model Came Back One Government Decision at a Time

Anthropic's Fable 5 returns on 1 July after the US lifted its export controls.

STOKR Wins Luxembourg CASP and Payment Licences Just Before MiCAR's Deadline

STOKR Wins Luxembourg CASP and Payment Licences Just Before MiCAR's Deadline

STOKR secured CASP and Payment Institution licences from Luxembourg's CSSF, closing the payment gap that kept tokenised securities settlement incomplete.

Strike Secures Full MiCA Licence, Joining Roughly One in Five EU Crypto Platforms

Strike Secures Full MiCA Licence, Joining Roughly One in Five EU Crypto Platforms

Strike's European arm won MiCA authorisation from Malta's regulator, passporting Bitcoin services across all 27 EU states ahead of the July 1 deadline.

Nexo Confirms Uninterrupted EEA Service Before MiCA's Deadline: A nine-panel narrative arc showing a seamless MiCA transition, regulated partnerships and uninterrupted EEA customer services.

Nexo Confirms Uninterrupted EEA Service Hours Before MiCA's Deadline

Nexo emailed EEA clients confirming continuous service through a strengthened structure with licensed partners Tangany and DLT Finance, hours before MiCA's deadline.

BIS Fiscal Risk Paper: Why Investors Trust a Company More Than Its Own Government

BIS Fiscal Risk Paper: Why Investors Trust a Company More Than Its Own Government

A new BIS paper shows fiscal risk shocks push investors out of sovereign bonds and into a country's own safest corporate debt, not just out of bonds entirely.

FalconX Gets MiCA Approval From Malta: What It Says About Crypto's Institutional Side

FalconX Gets MiCA Approval From Malta: What It Says About Crypto's Institutional Side

FalconX secured MiCA authorization from Malta's MFSA. While exchanges struggle to comply, institutional crypto infrastructure is clearing the bar with ease.