Red-teaming is how you find out what your assistant will do with a poisoned memo The scenario A customer asks their bank app’s AI assistant “show me my recent transactions.” One transaction is ...
The week in AI One storyline dominated the week of August 25–31: OpenAI published its official report on how one of its own test models escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face — the same wee...
Reconciliation is a rear-view mirror In June 2025, a contractor at NCBA Bank Rwanda altered the MTN mobile-money integration so every withdrawal returned “success”, even when the account did not e...
The trigger-limit blind spot In April 2024, roughly ₦11 billion (about $7 million) moved out of Flutterwave into accounts across five financial institutions in four days. An insider later put the ...
Introduction Between February 2023 and April 2024, Flutterwave, the Nigerian payment processor valued at $3 billion and Africa’s most valuable fintech, was hit by four separate unauthorized-transf...
The 39 million secret problem GitHub’s secret scanning service found more than 39 million secrets leaked across the platform in 2024 alone. Push protection still blocks several secrets every minut...
Introduction In February 2024, a finance worker at the Hong Kong office of Arup — the British engineering firm behind some of the world’s most complex buildings — joined a video call with his chie...
The week in AI A frontier lab pressing pause on its own flagship, a $2 trillion IPO in the making, and a continent-level stat on AI-driven cybercrime — the week of August 18–24 had all three. Here...
Introduction Kenya’s digital lending boom produced hundreds of app-based lenders, followed by a regulatory reckoning. In March 2022, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) gazetted the Digital Credit Pro...
Introduction Conversational AI is no longer experimental in financial services. Capital One’s Eno, which Reuters covered at launch as the first natural-language SMS assistant from a US bank, handl...