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🧠 Fintech Nerdcon 2026. San Diego. Tickets Live!

Feb 4, 2026

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3 min read

🧠 Fintech Nerdcon 2026. San Diego. Tickets Live!

Miami proved it. Now we're back. 19th and 20th November 2026.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 The Agentic Payments Map

Feb 1, 2026

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14 min read

🧠 The Agentic Payments Map

ACP, UCP, A2P, AXTP, x402. If your eyes just glazed over, you’re not alone.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor

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🧠 Getting a charter was the easy part

Jul 12, 2026

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16 min read

🧠 Getting a charter was the easy part

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.

🤖 Will AI make dotcom look like a blip?

Jul 9, 2026

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9 min read

🤖 Will AI make dotcom look like a blip?

The biggest capital boom ever measured has no unsold inventory. What that means for your dollars and your energy

🧠 Where Robinhood's 7% yield comes from

Jul 5, 2026

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8 min read

🧠 Where Robinhood's 7% yield comes from

Plus: Plaid flirts with an IPO, Erebor 4x's deposits in a quarter, and Meta tried to buy Kalshi

🧠 The Coin Nobody Owns

Jul 2, 2026

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11 min read

🧠 The Coin Nobody Owns

140 companies just agreed to share a stablecoin. OpenUSD is a play for the trillions of dollars that never came onchain.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Prediction Markets: A Messy Path to Mainstream

Jun 28, 2026

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9 min read

🧠 Prediction Markets: A Messy Path to Mainstream

Meta enters prediction markets; Polymarket's ad scandal; and Anthropic puts Claude in your Slack.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 Who holds AI’s off switch?

Jun 24, 2026

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9 min read

🤖 Who holds AI’s off switch?

One Friday night in June, Anthropic locked its own engineers out of its best model.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Stablecoin Issuer KYC Rules Proposed

Jun 21, 2026

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8 min read

🧠 Stablecoin Issuer KYC Rules Proposed

Plus: Coinbase's SEC-registered AI investment advisor, and Karta raises $15m for an international travelers' credit card (but don't stay stablecoins)

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Why Zelle wants to launch a stablecoin

Jun 18, 2026

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9 min read

🧠 Why Zelle wants to launch a stablecoin

The Clearing House reached for tokenized deposits, Zelle went stablecoin, and why stablecoins are the rail above the rails.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 The Benchmark Will Eat Finance

Jun 14, 2026

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14 min read

🧠 The Benchmark Will Eat Finance

AI will transform whatever we can measure first. And the first measures are here. Plus; Visa & Mastercard finally settle swipe fees lawsuit & Kalshi requires job disclosures.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
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