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Simon Taylor

With 20+ years in banking, finance, and Fintech, I've done a little bit of everything. Some of the things I saw made me get a little Ranty, hence this newsletter.

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
🧠 PayPal has become an M&A target.

Mar 1, 2026

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21 min read

🧠 PayPal has become an M&A target.

And Meta just re-entered stablecoins. And the card networks lost $50bn in market cap. It was that kind of week.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 The Claw Economy

Feb 23, 2026

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11 min read

🤖 The Claw Economy

What if the SaaSpocalypse was just the beginning?

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Legacy Finance is Perfect for AI

Feb 22, 2026

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20 min read

🧠 Legacy Finance is Perfect for AI

Nearly all money moves as structured text files. AI agents communicate in markdown. Think about that for a second.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 Its time to talk to your friends about AI

Feb 17, 2026

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10 min read

🤖 Its time to talk to your friends about AI

There’s something almost polite about how some AI labs are warning us. They’re doing podcasts and writing blog posts. It is the most civilized fire alarm in history

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 Mr Beast Just Bought A Bank*

Feb 15, 2026

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22 min read

🧠 Mr Beast Just Bought A Bank*

If it works, he’s building the primary financial institution for the next generation. Plus Robinhood's prediction markets on fire & BlackRock is going full degen.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🤖 The SaaSpocalypse - The week AI killed software

Feb 9, 2026

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9 min read

🤖 The SaaSpocalypse - The week AI killed software

The models didn't get smarter this week. They got out.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 The Great Re-Aggregation of Banking

Feb 8, 2026

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19 min read

🧠 The Great Re-Aggregation of Banking

Plus; PayPal's CEO is pushed out & why the most profitable regional bank in the US chose to sell.

Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor
🧠 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 AI That Called Its Human

Feb 3, 2026

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8 min read

🤖 The AI That Called Its Human

OpenClaw, Moltbook, and the birth of AI that actually does things.

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
🤖 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
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