Thought Leaders – Securities.io

May 29, 2026

By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR

AI Visibility Is the New Licence to Be Considered.

By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR

A direct read for crypto communications teams — and the moves the brands surviving the regulatory consolidation are already making.The 5W Crypto Regulation Brief documents three...

May 27, 2026

By Dmitri Laush, CEO & Co-Founder, Perfect.Live

Personal Assistance as a Service: Why Financial Firms Are the First to Deploy It at Scale

By Dmitri Laush, CEO & Co-Founder, Perfect.Live

Financial institutions have been debating the role of artificial intelligence in customer service for over two years now. Will it replace a human manager? At what...

May 22, 2026

By Jeff Scott, VP of Product, Fraud Intelligence, Q2 Holdings

Moving Fast Without Breaking Trust

By Jeff Scott, VP of Product, Fraud Intelligence, Q2 Holdings

How Modern Fraud Teams Win on Speed and SafetyThe speed paradox in fraud preventionWhether it’s paying bills just before the overdue penalties start, getting checking account...

May 20, 2026

By Anndy Lian

The Calm Before the Storm: Why Crypto’s Liquidity Is Signaling a Structural Break, Not a Healthy Pullback

By Anndy Lian

Across trading desks, social media channels, and mainstream financial commentary, a comforting narrative has firmly taken root. Bitcoin’s recent volatility is merely a healthy correction, a...

May 13, 2026

By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR

Why BlackRock Won the Bitcoin ETF Citation War in 24 Months — and What It Means for Every Other Issuer

By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR

When BlackRock listed the iShares Bitcoin Trust on January 11, 2024, the working assumption across the spot Bitcoin ETF cohort was that competition would settle out...

May 6, 2026

By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR

The Self-Custody Narrative Is Losing Inside ChatGPT — and Hardware Wallet Brands Need to Notice

By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR

In November 2022, in the weeks after FTX collapsed, a single phrase rewrote how the crypto industry talked about storage. “Not your keys, not your coins”...

A cinematic, wide-angle shot of a grand legislative boardroom divided by two worlds: on the left, a group of traditional bankers in suits stands before a cracked wall leaking physical currency; on the right, a younger group of tech-forward professionals monitors a glowing, holographic digital map of global capital flows. Through the central window, the U.S. Capitol dome is visible under a dramatic, high-stakes twilight sky.

April 29, 2026

By Anndy Lian

The Great Decoupling: Why the Failure of the CLARITY Act Will Bury the Banks, Not the Blockchain

By Anndy Lian

As we stand in late April 2026, the halls of Congress are thick with the scent of a desperate, last minute legislative push. The CLARITY Act...

A professional woman in a navy suit standing on a modern rooftop terrace overlooking a financial district, viewing a transparent digital display showing a green upward-trending financial graph and market data next to a large silver coin featuring a shield and dollar-link emblem.

April 23, 2026

By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR

Stablecoin Brands Just Got Their First Real Marketing Playbook

By Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5WPR

When 5W opened our specialty cryptocurrency and NFT division in 2021, the conversation with every crypto founder started the same way. Do we need PR yet?...

April 16, 2026

By Fatmire Bekiri, Head of Tokenization, Sygnum Bank

The Foundations Are In: What Nasdaq, DTC and Moody’s Just Did for Tokenization

By Fatmire Bekiri, Head of Tokenization, Sygnum Bank

In 2021, a Fillet au beret by Pablo Picasso became the first artwork to have its ownership rights broadcast onto a public blockchain by a regulated...

A stream of glowing data spheres passing through a series of translucent, digital glass panels on a rocky coastline at twilight, changing color from blue to purple as they emerge.

April 13, 2026

By Dave Krauthamer, Field CTO & Board Member, QuSecure

Utilize Policy-Driven Network Security to Protect Data in the Age Of AI

By Dave Krauthamer, Field CTO & Board Member, QuSecure

Traditionally, enterprises have embedded cryptographic choices deep within applications and hardware appliances. When vulnerabilities arrive, whether due to newly discovered flaws in an algorithm or accelerated...

March 30, 2026

By Alexander Rugaev

What It Really Takes to Deploy AI Robotics in the Real World

By Alexander Rugaev

An autonomous patrol vehicle on the streets of Dubai’s Global Village is easily perceived as a striking symbol of the future that is already here. But...

March 24, 2026

By Julia Maslennikova, Founder and CEO of 25/8 PR

AI Crises Rewrite Reality in Real Time — Most Companies Lose Before They Respond

By Julia Maslennikova, Founder and CEO of 25/8 PR

In today’s era of rapid AI development, cutting-edge startups are emerging literally every week – just as quickly as new types of crises arise. Autonomous AI...

March 18, 2026

By Vugar Usi Zade Chief Operating Officer at MEXC

Vulnerability to Vigilance: AI Must Become Crypto’s Risk Engine

By Vugar Usi Zade Chief Operating Officer at MEXC

The recent Anthropic episode matters to crypto because it showed how dependent modern markets have become on shared intelligence layers. Anthropic said more than 24,000 fake accounts...

March 11, 2026

By Maksym Sakharov, Co-Founder and Group CEO of WeFi

Finance Should Be a Network, Not an Institution

By Maksym Sakharov, Co-Founder and Group CEO of WeFi

The modern banking system presents itself as a marvel of accessibility, which only needs a swipe of a phone or a tap on a screen, and...

March 10, 2026

By Anndy Lian

Why the ‘All Tokens Are Securities’ Doctrine Is Wrong And What the CLARITY Act Gets Right

By Anndy Lian

The question of whether all digital tokens are securities by default has become the defining regulatory battleground of the modern financial era. For years, the United...