


Europe’s digital euro is a sovereignty project disguised as a payment product
On January 28, 2026 (Pacific Time), Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU’s

Capital One’s $5.15bn Brex bet: the bank wants the CFO’s dashboard
The US lender is buying a corporate card and spend

The UK just won the right to cap post-Brexit card fees — now the real fight begins
When a shopper in France clicks “pay” on a UK

The Valuation Gap: Why Traditional Credit Scoring Fails the Fintech NPL Market
By Jeffery Hartman, Managing Partner of Fitzgerald Advisors The Fintech
The Missing Link in FinTech: Why EqoFlow Is Building a Privacy-First Financial Infrastructure for the Creator Economy
By Trevor Henry, Co-CEO, EqoFlow Technologies LLC We talk a

SoFiUSD: When a bank turns “digital dollars” into infrastructure
SoFi’s new stablecoin looks, sounds, and (almost) behaves like a

PayPal’s bank charter bid: the quiet return of the ILC loophole
The payments group is applying to open an FDIC-insured “industrial
From Sovereign Strength to Smart Regulation, FIDA Makes Abu Dhabi the Natural Home for $100 Trillion in New Wealth
At Abu Dhabi Finance Week this year, I watched the

Britain’s fast-track fintech licences: can speed alone save the UK’s edge?
The UK government wants to let start-ups operate under “provisional

AI agents, stablecoins and the quiet reset in fintech funding
Global investors aren’t walking away from fintech. They’re rotating into

When the Bot Says No: How Agentic AI Could Kill Junk-Fee Finance
When Max Levchin says the bots are coming for junk

Singapore Just Turned Itself Into the World’s Testnet for Tokenised Money
If you want to see what “money on-chain” actually looks

Why Wall Street just wrote Ripple a $500m check — and what it says about stablecoins in 2026
Citadel Securities and Fortress led a half-billion dollar investment that

PayPal plugs into ChatGPT: what “agentic checkout” really changes
On October 28, 2025 (Pacific Time), PayPal said it will

HTTP 402 is back: Coinbase’s “Payments MCP” gives AI agents wallets — and puts fintech on notice
Coinbase has shipped a developer tool that lets popular AI

OCC’s conditional charter for Erebor Bank hints at a new template for digital‑asset banking
Inside the fine print: what the approval implies for compliance,

Revolut comes to UPI. Can a foreign super-app really win on India’s domestic rails?
Standfirst: Revolut will roll out UPI payments and Visa prepaid

PhonePe’s IPO tests the economics of India’s ‘free’ payments rail
Walmart-backed PhonePe has filed confidentially for a domestic IPO of

After the U.S. Stablecoin Law: Who Issues First – Banks, Big Tech, or Merchants?
A New Era of Regulated Stablecoins In July 2025, the

How a 97-year-old Missouri bank became fintech’s $1.47bn “bank of record”
Lead Bank’s fresh $70m round isn’t just another fintech raise.

Licence, code, carry: inside Kapital’s $1.3bn push into regulated banking
The headline news is simple enough: Mexico City–based Kapital says

From lender to network: Klarna’s $26bn forward-flow gambit
If you only read the headlines, you’d think Klarna’s story

Corporate Bitcoin Treasuries Go Public: Amdax Bets on Euronext
Amsterdam’s Amdax wants to list a dedicated bitcoin treasury company
A Quiet Fix with Big Implications: How the FDIC’s Appeals Office Could Unblock Bank-Fintech Innovation
Banking regulators aren’t usually associated with innovation-friendly policies. But in






























