Fintech
Charles Schwab Turns the S&P 500 Into a Yes-or-No Button
Schwab's reported Cboe deal shows prediction markets becoming ordinary brokerage product, wrapped in options language and aimed at retail traders.
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.
Launch
Cash App Turned Tap to Pay Into a $25 Magic Wand
Cash App's $25 NFC wand is equal parts fintech hardware, Gen Z charm bracelet, and excellent bit. Against reason, it also makes a weird amount of sense.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: Stablecoins Turned Dollars Into Software. Now Everyone Wants the Toll Booth.
Stablecoins are becoming payment plumbing for merchants, platforms, and bots. This guide explains the tech, incentives, regulation, and hype.
AI
Ramp Raised $750 Million to Put AI Agents on the Company Card
Ramp’s $750 million June 4 raise says autonomous finance is leaving demo mode. The controls look smarter than the slogan, which is not always true in agent land.
Startups
PredictionBell Wants Traders to Stop Drowning in Polymarket and Kalshi Tabs
PredictionBell is a free no-signup dashboard for scanning Polymarket and Kalshi across equities, crypto, macro, sports, venue gaps, and market pulse signals.
Fintech
Coinbase and PPRO Turn Stablecoins Into Just Another Checkout Button
Coinbase and PPRO's May 27 stablecoin deal shows crypto payments going mainstream by hiding inside merchant software and PSP plumbing already in place.
Startups
ExpensumAI Wants to Find Your Receipts Before Finance Finds You
ExpensumAI finds receipts in Gmail, matches them to card charges, and shows busy professionals only what is missing before expenses become a chase scene.
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
Circle Built an Agent Wallet So USDC Can Charge the Bots
Circle's Agent Stack turns USDC into payment middleware for bots, APIs, and micropayments, showing where fintech wants the next checkout button to live.