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🧠 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
🤖 Anthropic is Winning by Trying to Lose

Jan 28, 2026

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8 min read

🤖 Anthropic is Winning by Trying to Lose

How treating AI like plutonium became the best enterprise strategy in tech

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠  Will AI Kill Fintech SaaS?

Jan 25, 2026

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20 min read

🧠 Will AI Kill Fintech SaaS?

The stock market thinks AI kills SaaS. Here's what I think they're missing. Plus; Capital One Acquires Brex for $5.15bn

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 The Enshittification of ChatGPT Has Begun

Jan 21, 2026

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7 min read

🤖 The Enshittification of ChatGPT Has Begun

AI isn't a bubble, but OpenAI's balance sheet sure is looking like one.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠  The Stablecoin Industry is on Notice

Jan 18, 2026

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15 min read

🧠 The Stablecoin Industry is on Notice

Plus; BVNK powers stablecoin payouts for Visa Direct & the Crypto Market Structure Bill is delayed

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 AI Just Grew Arms.

Jan 15, 2026

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7 min read

🤖 AI Just Grew Arms.

And it can do your whole job now

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Banks are not disrupted.

Jan 11, 2026

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24 min read

🧠 Banks are not disrupted.

Plus; Trump Caps Credit Cards at 10%, Stablecoin app Kontingo is hacked, and JP Morgan takes the Apple Card business from Goldman

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Everyone wants to be a bank

Jan 4, 2026

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23 min read

🧠 Everyone wants to be a bank

Plus; JP Morgan explores letting clients trade crypto, while also freezing the accounts of Blindpay and Kontigo

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
State of Fintech 2026: The Fintech Compounders

Dec 21, 2025

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6 min read

State of Fintech 2026: The Fintech Compounders

The year of Agentic Commerce, Stablecoins and Prediction Markets did not disrupt the banks, but they changed everything else.

Simon Taylor
Jevgenijs Kazanins
Simon Taylor, +1
The tokenized-deposit vs. stablecoin fight is a distraction.

Dec 7, 2025

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5 min read

The tokenized-deposit vs. stablecoin fight is a distraction.

Banks multiply money. Stablecoins move it. We need both.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
Financial Nihilism Has a Cure

Nov 30, 2025

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20 min read

Financial Nihilism Has a Cure

Plus; Why Klarna's stablecoin is anything BUT bandwagon jumping & Robinhood is doubling down on prediction markets for everything.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
AI is Rewiring the Economy

Nov 23, 2025

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15 min read

AI is Rewiring the Economy

It's cheaper to cover a hole in the wall with a flat screen TV than fill it. Stuff is cheap, services are expensive. AI is about to fix that.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
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