Fintech Brainfood
Food for thought about Finance, AI and the future of money.
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Fintech Brainfood by Simon Taylor
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Feb 4, 2026
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3 min read
Miami proved it. Now we're back. 19th and 20th November 2026.
Feb 1, 2026
14 min read
ACP, UCP, A2P, AXTP, x402. If your eyes just glazed over, you’re not alone.
Jul 16, 2026
8 min read
The most valuable consumer in America already shops through an AI chat. But they’ve drawn a line at paying.
Jul 12, 2026
16 min read
Circle's final approval drops. Klarna files in Utah, Sony's crypto bank wins conditional OCC approval, and four megabanks circle Fiserv's STAR network. Plus Kalshi loses in the SDNY and Ramp gives AI agents cards.
Jul 9, 2026
9 min read
The biggest capital boom ever measured has no unsold inventory. What that means for your dollars and your energy
Jul 5, 2026
Plus: Plaid flirts with an IPO, Erebor 4x's deposits in a quarter, and Meta tried to buy Kalshi
Jul 2, 2026
11 min read
140 companies just agreed to share a stablecoin. OpenUSD is a play for the trillions of dollars that never came onchain.
Jun 28, 2026
Meta enters prediction markets; Polymarket's ad scandal; and Anthropic puts Claude in your Slack.
Jun 24, 2026
One Friday night in June, Anthropic locked its own engineers out of its best model.
Jun 21, 2026
Plus: Coinbase's SEC-registered AI investment advisor, and Karta raises $15m for an international travelers' credit card (but don't stay stablecoins)
Jun 18, 2026
The Clearing House reached for tokenized deposits, Zelle went stablecoin, and why stablecoins are the rail above the rails.
