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Polymarket and Kalshi Turn Election Night Into a Margin Call for Your Personality
Polymarket and Kalshi election betting can wipe out a stake even when the forecasts work. The 2026 midterms bring big volume, fees, and expensive certainty.
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Upstart Grew Its AI Loan Machine. The Economy Ignored the Demo.
Upstart’s Q3 2026 earnings show growing AI lending and a lower annual forecast. Here’s why better underwriting cannot make funding costs or credit risk vanish.
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Sunrate Gives AI a Corporate Card With a Very Short Leash
Sunrate launches an AI payment card with spending controls. Here’s how agentic business payments work, who benefits, and what a card limit cannot prevent.
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DTCC Puts Securities on Blockchain. The Bouncer Is Still at the Door.
DTCC launches securities tokenization with 34 eligible assets. Here’s how registered wallets, ownership rights and transfer limits shape the fintech rollout.
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SoFi Made $241 Million. Your Financial Life Is the Bundle.
SoFi’s Q3 2026 earnings reveal how its everything app makes money, why lending still matters, and what customers trade for financial convenience in one place.
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MAJORITY Sends Stablecoins Home. Mom Still Has to Pay the Grocer.
MAJORITY launches USDC transfers to Latin America with zerohash. The real test is what families pay to turn digital dollars into money they can spend locally.
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BOB Raised $5.5 Million to Put a Finance Department in Your Texts
BOB raised $5.5 million for an AI finance agent for small businesses. Inside its messaging pitch, approval controls, banking questions, and free-CFO economics.
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Visa’s Reported $2.5 Billion Fireblocks Deal Has Already Acquired a Denial
Fireblocks denies reported $2.5 billion Visa acquisition talks. Inside the stablecoin stakes, the valuation gap, and the very speculative leak theories.
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Tether Backs Peso to Get Digital Dollars Past the Dinner Menu
Tether backs Bolivia’s Peso to expand USDT payments across Latin America. The real test is everyday spending, exchange rates, and getting money back out.
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Visa Gives Invoice-Paying AI a Badge to Get Past the CAPTCHA
Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot AI invoice payments through supplier portals. The useful breakthrough is authentication; the bigger question is who benefits.
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Money20/20 USA 2026’s Five Weirdest Finds Include IV Drips and Fraud Escape Rooms
Money20/20 USA 2026’s weirdest first-full-day finds: IV drips, fraud-company escape rooms, robot portraits, golden licenses, merch coins, and Timbaland.
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BILL Gives Finance AI an Off Switch. Accountants May Finally Exhale.
BILL rolls out AI invoice checks and finance controls. Here’s what the launch promises, what its savings claims miss, and why accountants still hold the keys.