Fintech
Ribbon Built a Super-App for Global Indians. It Ran Out of Runway.
Ribbon is closing its e-money accounts after expected funding failed, exposing the capital, safeguarding, and regulatory plumbing behind fintech super-apps.
Fintech
Bloxley Turns Cross-Border Money Into One App and Several Compliance Footnotes
Bloxley’s EU launch bundles multi-currency accounts, AI finance, payment handles, and virtual cards while outsourcing the regulated plumbing.
Fintech
Telcoin Took Stablecoins to Nebraska. The Bank Charter Is the Product.
Telcoin’s Nebraska digital-asset bank puts eUSD on-chain with a charter, reserves, and risk disclosures. The bank part is the fintech story.
Fintech
Mastercard Beat the Quarter. Your Payment Still Gets Declined for Buying a Sandwich.
Mastercard’s Q2 2026 beat shows resilient payments growth, but the real fintech story is who controls trust, fees, and financial plumbing.
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.