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🧠 Nubank takes on America | Meta wants your wallet

Sep 13, 2026

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13 min read

🧠 Nubank takes on America | Meta wants your wallet

Plus: Nu goes global with stablecoins, Chime’s $590m bank deal, Ramp’s rumored $60bn valuation, and $125m to split your rent.

🧠 Not all bank charters are created equal

Sep 10, 2026

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14 min read

🧠 Not all bank charters are created equal

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.

🧠 2 New Bank Charters in 24 Hours

Sep 6, 2026

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11 min read

🧠 2 New Bank Charters in 24 Hours

OpenReserve and Revolut are very different animals. TabaPay is buying a bank, and Félix raised $200m to build around WhatsApp.

🧠 Instinct Made the Consumer Agent Feel Real

Sep 3, 2026

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8 min read

🧠 Instinct Made the Consumer Agent Feel Real

The consumer agent just started to feel real. Most businesses are not ready.

🧠 Kalshi loses in the Ninth Circuit

Aug 30, 2026

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15 min read

🧠 Kalshi loses in the Ninth Circuit

Stripe and Advent walk away from PayPal. Revolut hits 80m customers, and Socure grows into its 2021 valuation.

🧠 AI Created New Customer Problems

Aug 27, 2026

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9 min read

🧠 AI Created New Customer Problems

Solving them is where the next generation of finance products are forming. Token spend, agent identity, and model routing barely existed before AI.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Stripe is buying the AI economy

Aug 23, 2026

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9 min read

🧠 Stripe is buying the AI economy

The 7bn OpenRouter deal puts Stripe on both sides of the AI P&L.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Nvidia is the Fannie Mae for Compute

Aug 20, 2026

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11 min read

🧠 Nvidia is the Fannie Mae for Compute

AI can be real, the GPUs can be full, and your 401k can still end up holding the paper.

🧠 Nvidia is the worlds largest fintech company

Aug 16, 2026

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15 min read

🧠 Nvidia is the worlds largest fintech company

Goldman, BlackRock and KKR line up $500bn to securitize GPUs. Plus Adyen wins OpenAI and Figure posts a Rule of 150.

🧠 Prediction Markets are better markets*

Aug 13, 2026

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16 min read

🧠 Prediction Markets are better markets*

*They're just worse at protecting the consumer than the sportsbooks they're competing with. And that's something we have to fix.

🧠 The FDIC wants a rulebook for bank fintech partnerships

Aug 9, 2026

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14 min read

🧠 The FDIC wants a rulebook for bank fintech partnerships

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.

🧠 Netting is all you need

Aug 6, 2026

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12 min read

🧠 Netting is all you need

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

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