Fintech
The CLARITY Act Just Made Crypto Regulation a Race to August Recess
The Senate’s revised CLARITY Act adds crypto ethics rules and stablecoin oversight, but its August deadline may be harder than the blockchain.
Fintech
TIPS Clone Just Made Balkan Banking Boring in the Best Possible Way
TIPS Clone went live July 20, bringing 24/7 instant-payment settlement to the Western Balkans and turning payment plumbing into policy for banks.
Fintech
Strivve Wants Your Bank Card to Win the AI Shopping Race
Strivve is extending card-on-file placement to AI shopping agents, turning “top of wallet” into a fight over which issuer gets picked by software.
Fintech
CSI Bought Qolo to Give Community Banks Better Payments Plumbing
CSI's Qolo acquisition shows embedded-finance plumbing getting pulled into bank tech stacks as community banks chase real-time treasury and payments tools.
Fintech
Circle Got a Trust Bank for USDC and Made Crypto Wear a Tie
Circle's new OCC-approved trust bank pulls USDC deeper into the federal perimeter, proving stablecoin ambition now looks less bankless and more chartered.
Fintech
Big Banks Built Tokenized Deposits So Stablecoins Stop Stealing Treasury Work
The Clearing House tokenized-deposit push shows big banks absorbing stablecoin-style speed and programmability into regulated treasury and settlement rails.
Fintech
Klarna Launched a Savings Account So BNPL Can Keep Your Cash Too
Klarna's new U.S. savings account shows BNPL maturing into a full cash-habitat play, with partner-bank plumbing, membership hooks, and sticky deposits.
Fintech
Trump Wants Fintechs on the Fed's Rails. Banks Reach for the Smelling Salts.
Trump's fintech order and the Fed's payment-account proposal reopened the fight over who gets direct access to America's money pipes at all.
Fintech
Mercury Raised $200 Million to Stop Renting a Bank and Become One
Mercury's $200 million round is really a bank charter story: the startup-fintech stack wants to stop renting sponsor banks and own the pipes.
Fintech
SoFi Started Minting a Stablecoin, Because the Super App Wasn't Complicated Enough
SoFi has started minting SoFiUSD, revealing a bigger ambition: turn a national bank, a stablecoin, and Mastercard rails into one settlement stack.
Fintech
Stripe Turned Stablecoins Into a Business Account, and the Card Was the Tell
Stripe’s latest Treasury and card launches show stablecoins becoming business banking infrastructure, with cashback and custody hiding the crypto.
Fintech
The ECB Wants a Digital Euro That Taps Like Visa and Bills Like Sovereignty
The ECB’s new digital euro standards push is really a bid to stop Europe renting payments from Visa, Mastercard, and wallet gatekeepers.