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.
Aug 16, 2026
15 min read
Goldman, BlackRock and KKR line up $500bn to securitize GPUs. Plus Adyen wins OpenAI and Figure posts a Rule of 150.
Aug 13, 2026
16 min read
*They're just worse at protecting the consumer than the sportsbooks they're competing with. And that's something we have to fix.
Aug 9, 2026
Ten years after every company became a fintech company, the regulator may seed-fund the standards body. Plus Block runs Square on its own bank rails, Chime posts back-to-back profits, and Cloudflare gives AI agents a wallet.
Aug 6, 2026
12 min read
17 of America's biggest banks just put deposits onchain and skipped stablecoins. The reason is a 50-year-old trick, and stablecoins are about to steal it back
Aug 2, 2026
13 min read
Robinhood earns more from event contracts than stocks or crypto. New York wants Kalshi shut down. Plus Increase buys a bank, Dakota wants a charter, and X Money pays 6%.
Jul 30, 2026
Two came out with a charter. One came out with a letter.
Jul 26, 2026
Stripe is in talks to buy OpenRouter at ~$10bn and own both sides of the AI P&L. Revolut confirms $115bn. Augustus raises $180m to take on Citi's franchise.
Jul 23, 2026
10 min read
There aren’t any. Yet. But it’s now possible, because AI and tokenization remove the two barriers.
Jul 19, 2026
The biggest payments takeover ever attempted might be Stripe's biggest distraction. Plus: every US stock becomes a token in October, and GPUs get a futures market.
