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.
Fintech
PayPal Made Wallet Funding Weird Enough for the FCA
The FCA's PayPal wallet probe spotlights who controls checkout when cards, bank accounts, and digital wallets all want to be the front door.
AI
Addepar Turns Portfolio Plumbing Into an AI Product for Nervous Adults
Addepar's new ADX pitch is simple: before finance gets agentic, someone has to stop the spreadsheet feuds. Boring? Yes. Useful? Uncomfortably so.
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.
Layoffs
Coinbase Discovered AI, So 700 Humans Became a Cost Structure
I like Coinbase. I want Coinbase to win. Which is why watching it dress a plain old layoff in AI-native cosplay is so irritating.
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.
Fintech
Stablecoin Founders Keep Applying for Bank Charters, Because Apparently the Endgame Was Banking All Along
OCC stablecoin rules and a growing bank-charter queue show crypto’s next act is less anti-bank rebellion, more reserves, audits, and supervision.
Fintech
PayPal Added Pix in Brazil, Which Is What Global Wallets Do When the Local Rail Already Won
PayPal’s Pix launch in Brazil shows where fintech is headed: global wallets survive by embedding the local payment rails users already trust.