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Diego Silveira, Ledge co-founder and CTO, grew up in a small town in Uruguay with no computer, no teachers, and no roadmap into cybersecurity. He built one anyway. This year, Microsoft noticed. El País just told his story. Here's the rest of it.

The Hidden Costs of Fragmented Compliance

Financial institutions spend enormous resources verifying customer identities and assessing compliance risk. Yet this process is largely repeated every time a person or business interacts with a new financial institution.

International payments are being redesigned around speed, interoperability, and programmable liquidity. Yet the way compliance decisions are structured and shared remains largely unchanged. This structural imbalance is becoming harder to ignore.

Traditional KYC processes are under pressure: Slow onboarding, rising costs, and growing security and compliance complexity. This article explores why decentralised identity is entering the conversation, and what it could change for financial institutions.