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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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24 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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🧠 Poor AML Will Ruin Stablecoins*

Apr 12, 2026

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25 min read

🧠 Poor AML Will Ruin Stablecoins*

*If we don't figure out how to do it differently. Plus, Perplexity & Plaid Partner on Personal Agents

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 The Checkout is Dead pt2: Invisible Commerce

Apr 5, 2026

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19 min read

🧠 The Checkout is Dead pt2: Invisible Commerce

Walmart saw a 66% conversion drop adding agentic commerce. Proving agents needs invisible payments, not better checkouts.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Wallet Wars Pt 4: The Personal Finance Agent.

Mar 29, 2026

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19 min read

🧠 Wallet Wars Pt 4: The Personal Finance Agent.

The next wave of consumer fintech isn’t an app. It’s a personal agent. And nobody’s built the product yet.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Private Credit is Cooked*

Mar 22, 2026

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16 min read

🧠 Private Credit is Cooked*

Every bank will go onchain. It’s a question of when & with who?

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
The Intention Layer

Mar 18, 2026

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15 min read

The Intention Layer

How agents will pay on the internet—and the economy that emerges when they can

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 The Everywhere Insider

Mar 15, 2026

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20 min read

🧠 The Everywhere Insider

The MrBeast bust, the KPMG anomaly, and the Iran wallets. Plus; CFTC's new rules & Revolut finally gets a bank account.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 It's Time to Talk to Your CEO About Open Source AI

Mar 10, 2026

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13 min read

🤖 It's Time to Talk to Your CEO About Open Source AI

OpenClaw is Linux. We don't know who Red Hat is yet.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Agents will use cards first. Then stablecoins.

Mar 7, 2026

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19 min read

🧠 Agents will use cards first. Then stablecoins.

Not cards or stablecoins. Cards and stablecoins. Plus; first "skinny master account" granted and Bridge & Visa launch stablecoin-cards in 100 markets.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 The AI Doom Loop

Mar 3, 2026

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13 min read

🤖 The AI Doom Loop

Block fired 4,000 people. Stock ripped 24%, Was AI the Excuse or Reason or Both?

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
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