FinTech Newsletter
Skip through our archive to read past issues of FinTech Weekly. Enjoy!
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Washington Froze and Fintech Kept Moving - Issue #620
Legislation stalled. The technology did not.
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Banks Selling Data - Issue #619
Lloyds’ plan to monetize anonymized customer information and automate compliance reveals where large banks now see their next revenue engine.
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Trust Ranks First - Issue #618
Claude’s rise over ChatGPT suggests AI competition is shifting from performance to governance and deployment choices.
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AI Shrinks Firms - Issue #617
Block’s layoffs signal a structural shift in how fintech companies scale, as AI changes the economics of building and running platforms.
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Settlement Goes On-Chain - Issue #616
Stablecoins are moving from crypto instruments to core financial rails as fintech and institutions adopt programmable settlement.
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IPO Window Shifts - Issue #615
Clear Street’s withdrawn listing shows how AI anxiety and fintech sentiment are reshaping the path to public markets
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Payments Without Borders - Issue #613
From PayPay’s Nasdaq push to wallet–telecom convergence, digital payments are expanding across markets, platforms, and daily services
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Settlement Comes First - Issue #614
Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron writes in FTW that delayed finality, not payment speed, is finance’s structural constraint
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Pricing the Window - Issue #612
Agibank’s IPO highlights how fintech listings are returning with tighter expectations, where credibility and discipline matter as much as growth.
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The Cooperation Phase - Issue #611
Stablecoins force banks and crypto to design systems together instead of arguing past each other.
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Stablecoins, Still “Crypto”? - Issue #610
Who controls settlement, liquidity, and the next layer of global payments infrastructure is now the real question.
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AI in the Space - Issue #609
As AI infrastructure hits physical limits on Earth, the next bottleneck is power, space, and control over where computation actually happens.
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Shareholders = Platform Users - Issue #608
Trump Media’s token experiment shows how public companies are testing blockchain to reshape investor engagement without crossing regulatory lines.
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Testing Before Scaling - Issue #607
Why sandbox partnerships are becoming the preferred gateway for banks entering blockchain finance.
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A Visionary Enters the Room - Issue #606
A tech leader moves from observing global forums to shaping the conversation from within.
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When Politics Reenters the Market Equation - Issue #605
Why renewed trade uncertainty is becoming a structural risk for Europe’s economy, investment climate, and financial stability.
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The Pause Before the Rules - Issue #604
Coinbase’s CLARITY Act reversal highlights the growing tension between speed, structure, and control in U.S. crypto regulation.
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When Payments Stop Needing Devices - Issue #603
What PayPal’s investment in Klearly says about where European payments are really heading
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When Credit Starts to Think Back - Issue #602
Agentic AI is pushing lending beyond automation and into a new phase of decision architecture.
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Common Ground - Issue #601
Cross-border finance rarely fails on innovation. It fails on alignment.
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Shared Language - Issue #600
Agentic AI is advancing quickly, but its real ceiling is being set by how fragmented financial systems still are.
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Not the Same - Issue #599
Gold, silver, and bitcoin are no longer answering the same question as uncertainty returns to markets.
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Stable Value - Issue #598
How 2025 turned stablecoins from a crypto experiment into financial infrastructure.
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All I Want - Issue #597
Holiday demand shows whether payment systems can deliver reliability when it matters most.
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Borrowed Trust - Issue #596
Why fintechs are choosing familiar institutions to anchor their next phase of growth.
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When Boring Wins - Issue #595
Digital finance is discovering that credibility, not creativity, is what decides who survives the next cycle.
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Terms of Power - Issue #594
A shift in chip policy reveals how control over compute now defines influence more than the hardware itself.
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Broader Payment Routes - Issue #593
Klarna’s expansion to France and Italy shows how installment tools continue to integrate quietly into established payment channels.
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Quiet Rewiring - Issue #592
A French banking group is introducing something new, especially for European banks.
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When Scale Rewrites Power - Issue #591
As Global Payments moves to absorb Worldpay, the real question is how consolidation reshapes the financial systems built on top of it.
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Cracks in the Story - Issue #590
When a market darling meets its loudest critic, the real debate is about how truth is built in modern finance.
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The Fraud Reckoning - Issue #589
Rising precision attacks reveal how unprepared Europe remains for a future where identity itself becomes a moving target.
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New Frontiers Rising - Issue #588
Tether’s move toward Parfin signals a turning point for digital assets in regions where financial change accelerates fastest.
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Polygon Moves In - Issue #587
Revolut adds a blockchain layer that could pressure banks, cards, and remittance providers.
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Paid Pipes - Issue #586
U.S. open banking is shifting as JPMorgan formalizes paid data access, pushing fintech and aggregators into a new cost reality.
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Shutdown Aftermath - Issue #585
The U.S. government reopens, but political fatigue and regulatory cuts raise deeper risks for the economy and finance.
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They Track You - Issue #584
What happens when financial technology starts watching not just what we do — but how we feel?
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Fed Fractures - Issue #583
Rare dissent within the Federal Reserve signals deep uncertainty about policy, leadership, and the path ahead.
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Open Banking Pause - Issue #582
The injunction on the CFPB’s open banking rule exposes the U.S.’s unfinished path toward secure and competitive data sharing.
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Banking Meets Blockchain - Issue #581
ClearBank joins Circle’s network — a sign that fintech and traditional banking may finally be learning to share the same rails.
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Central Bank–Fintech Talks - Issue #580
At the IMF–World Bank meetings, Nigeria’s central bank tests a partner-led path for fintech policy, with stability as the guardrail.
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The Stablecoin Strategy - Issue #579
What U.S. and European banks’ new focus reveals about the future of money.
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Data as Business Strategy - Issue #578
Private markets grow fast; pricing, access, and research rules push data to the center of investment decisions
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Talent in Transition - Issue 577
Automation, taxation, and AI shift how financial work—and ambition—are defined in London
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Reasoning in Finance - Issue #576
Ant’s trillion-parameter model invites reflection on AI judgment and financial responsibility
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