About PaymentLeaks
Ignacio De Navascués
Founder, PaymentLeaks
Over 12 years in payments infrastructure, correspondent banking, and international settlement. Has worked in the systems that move money between countries — interbank messaging, clearing, and instant payment networks. Built PaymentLeaks because no intelligence source spoke the language of the people who actually operate the infrastructure.
What is PaymentLeaks
Daily payments intelligence with international coverage — including markets the Anglophone press misses: systemic-impact analysis, regulation, competitive moves, and the signals other outlets overlook.
Why it exists
“The payments industry moves too fast to rely on English-only sources.”
Editorial methodology
Every piece is built on three verification pillars: (1) a daily automated scan of public sources across many jurisdictions — regulators, central banks, trade press and local media in multiple languages, with emphasis on non-Anglophone markets; (2) semantic retrieval over a historical archive of tens of thousands of articles to connect today's news with how we got here; (3) verification of every cited URL — publication date, canonical domain and snippet presence — before publishing.
No URL ships without passing the verifier in the current session. No figure ships without backing in the cited source. No headline from the last 96 hours is recycled as if new. These rules are non-negotiable and block publication if they fail.
Editorial standards
PaymentLeaks does not write headlines for clicks. The daily TOP 3 is picked by systemic impact — what move actually shifts the needle for someone running infrastructure — not by search volume. Predictions carry a horizon, an observable metric and a verifiable source; the ones that miss publish as MISS in the next briefing's Prediction Scorecard.
Anti-fabrication policy: zero tolerance for invented URLs, inferred figures, or quotes rephrased to dodge a checker. If a claim cannot be verified at its original source, it does not ship. If a section flags entity repetition, the item is replaced wholesale — never reworded to hide the name.
Corrections policy
If you spot a factual error, a misattributed quote, stale data, or a dead URL, email us at hola@paymentleaks.com. Material corrections publish in the next briefing under a "Correction" tag and the original stays on the historical record — past pieces are never silently edited.