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Plus; The OCC Drops "Reputational Risk" from exams and the SEC Drops appeal against Ripple.
Plus; Block gets FDIC approval for consumer loans via bank subsidiary, Moonpay pays $100m for Iron, $12.5bn lost to scams.
Plus; Klarna's $15bn IPO, Ramp's $13bn secondary and why the IPO window might be closing causing a mad scramble.
AI is magic that will transform finance, but only when we get out of our own way. Here's the playbook. Plus; Stripe's big year, BofA stablecoins & Brex to IPO?
AI Agent Commerce, Bridge, Stablecoins & $1.4trillion TPV: A conversation and Q&A with John Collison President of Stripe about their 2025 Annual Letter.
Agentic payments are evolving in four distinct models, and gradually making the "checkout" obsolete. Plus; The $LIBRA scam, and Unbundling Visa.
Here's your guide to Stablecoins. Plus; Robinhood, Adyen and Coinbase all CRUSH earnings, and the JPMC/Klarna partnership is a big deal
How tokens, wallets and stablecoins collide. Plus; Stripe CEO shocked by Stablecoin growth & FDIC Pause letters released.
Plus; Trump's Fintech, X and Visa partnership announced & Robinhood wants Tokenization
AI Agents break payments and identity security models. Plus; Crypto Executive Orders, Ramp Treasury and the coming age of Tokenization.
A now sitting US President just turned a meme into $60bn of market cap. It's simultaneously a masterclass in attention economics, a warning sign for finance, and a glimpse of what's coming. You need to understand why.
Meet the hedge fund run entirely by AI Agents. Plus, Nubank does Stablecoin rewards, and Coinbase does Bitcoin-secured Stablecoin lending.
