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Atlanta Fintech Week 2026
A citywide week of panels, meetups and networking in one of the US payments capitals: roughly 70% of US card transactions are processed through Georgia. Five days, five themes, for...
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Banks Spent a Decade Building Apps. Now the Fight for the Customer Is Back in the Text Inbox.
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Europe's Fintechs Talk About Sovereignty. Most of Them Still Run on American Clouds.
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EBICS vs. PSD2: Europe Built Two Bank Interfaces. They Were Never Meant to Compete.
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BlackRock Says AI Agents Will Run on Stablecoins. The Agents Have Not Shown Up Yet.
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Europe's Central Banks Want Stablecoin Reserves Out of Bank Deposits. Here Is Why.
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The FCA Is Building a Sterling Stablecoin Market. The Rules That Kick In When It Succeeds Could Kill It.
Rosalia Mazza
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Washington Froze Crypto's Legislative Future on Sunday. By Monday, the Industry Had Already Moved On.
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Musk’s SpaceX–xAI Merger Plan Puts Orbital Data Centers at the Center of the AI Infrastructure Race
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When Washington waits, criminals move: The hidden cost of the CLARITY Act delay
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BlackRock Launched a Bitcoin ETF That Dominated Inflows. Then It Launched a Second Product That Changes What a Crypto ETF Can Do.
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SEP 28 - OCT 2, Atlanta Fintech Week 2026
A citywide week of panels, meetups and networking in one of the US payments capitals: roughly 70% of US card transactions are processed through Georgia. Five days, five themes, for...
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SEP 28 - OCT 1, Sibos 2026 Miami
Swift's annual conference for banks, market infrastructures and corporates comes to Miami for the first time. Expect the big payments topics of the year: tokenised assets and interoperability, instant cross-border...
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SEP 29 - 29, Investor and Consumer Protection in Crypto Markets (ZEVEDI Conference)
Interdisciplinary conference by ZEVEDI's project group on investor and consumer protection in crypto markets. Sessions cover stablecoins, finfluencers, collective redress, secure information systems and private-law legal certainty under EU crypto...
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Banks Spent a Decade Building Apps. Now the Fight for the Customer Is Back in the Text Inbox.
RCS is turning the humble text message into a verified, app-like channel — and banks are being pushed back into an inbox they thought they had left behind. The verified-sender pitch is real, but for regulated institutions the encryption story is more complicated than the marketing slide suggests.
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Europe's Fintechs Talk About Sovereignty. Most of Them Still Run on American Clouds.
DORA, the Data Act, a proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, Wero and the digital euro all point in the same direction: Europe wants control over its financial infrastructure. The hard part is that most of its banks and fintechs depend on three US hyperscalers.
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EBICS vs. PSD2: Europe Built Two Bank Interfaces. They Were Never Meant to Compete.
Open banking was supposed to make old bank channels obsolete. Eight years after PSD2, corporates still move their money over EBICS, and the next wave of EU rules (PSD3, the PSR and a slimmed-down FiDA) is more likely to cement that split than end it.
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SEP 28 - OCT 1, Sibos 2026 Miami
Swift's annual conference for banks, market infrastructures and corporates comes to Miami for the first time. Expect the big payments topics of the year: tokenised assets and interoperability, instant cross-border...
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SEP 29 - 29, Investor and Consumer Protection in Crypto Markets (ZEVEDI Conference)
Interdisciplinary conference by ZEVEDI's project group on investor and consumer protection in crypto markets. Sessions cover stablecoins, finfluencers, collective redress, secure information systems and private-law legal certainty under EU crypto...
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BlackRock Says AI Agents Will Run on Stablecoins. The Agents Have Not Shown Up Yet.BlackRock's new paper on the "machine-native economy" argues that autonomous AI agents will need stablecoins and tokenised compute. The thesis is dominating fintech feeds this week. The on-chain data tells a more cautious story, and Europe's rulebook adds a twist.
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Europe's Central Banks Want Stablecoin Reserves Out of Bank Deposits. Here Is Why.In their response to the Commission's MiCA review, the ECB and the EU's national central banks ask Brussels to drop the rule forcing large stablecoins to hold 60% of reserves as bank deposits. The reason is financial stability, not crypto friendliness.
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The ECB Just Answered Tokenisation's Hardest Question: What Do You Pay With?With Pontes, live since 21 September, banks can settle tokenised securities in central bank money for the first time. The technology is not the story. The story is that Europe has decided the cash leg of on-chain markets should not depend on stablecoins or private deposit tokens.
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