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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Sep 20, 2026
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11 min read
Plus the SEC’s five-year tokenized-stock exemption, Ramp’s UK launch, Monzo Aura and reusable bank ID.
Sep 17, 2026
9 min read
Why banks are using tokenized deposits to move money on weekends—and where stablecoins still win.
Sep 13, 2026
13 min read
Plus: Nu goes global with stablecoins, Chime’s $590m bank deal, Ramp’s rumored $60bn valuation, and $125m to split your rent.
Sep 10, 2026
14 min read
Full bank, industrial bank, trust bank. What each one buys, what it costs the parent, and why none of them comes with a Fed account.
Sep 6, 2026
OpenReserve and Revolut are very different animals. TabaPay is buying a bank, and Félix raised $200m to build around WhatsApp.
Sep 3, 2026
8 min read
The consumer agent just started to feel real. Most businesses are not ready.
Aug 30, 2026
15 min read
Stripe and Advent walk away from PayPal. Revolut hits 80m customers, and Socure grows into its 2021 valuation.
Aug 27, 2026
Solving them is where the next generation of finance products are forming. Token spend, agent identity, and model routing barely existed before AI.
Aug 23, 2026
The 7bn OpenRouter deal puts Stripe on both sides of the AI P&L.
