Fintech
Payward Bought Magic’s Wallet Business. Crypto Infrastructure Is Eating Its Seedlings.
Payward is buying Magic Labs’ embedded-wallet business as Magic becomes Newton Labs, revealing where crypto infrastructure value is moving.
Fintech
Ripple Mint Turns Stablecoin Paperwork Into an API, Because Money Finally Needed a Dashboard
Ripple Mint adds APIs, webhooks, and multichain controls for RLUSD, turning stablecoin operations into institutional payment infrastructure with receipts.
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
Cordant Raised $8 Million to Watch Your Money Get Lost Between Systems
Cordant raised $8 million for software that helps banks and fintechs trace payments across fragmented systems, adding visibility before AI automation.
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
T. Rowe Price Just Put a Crypto Variety Pack in Your Brokerage Account
T. Rowe Price launched TKNZ, an actively managed multi-token crypto ETP that gives investors one ticker for a volatile digital-asset basket.
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
Open USD Turns Stablecoin Reserve Revenue Into a Group Project
Open USD is a new stablecoin backed by Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, BNY, and 140-plus partners that shares reserve revenue.
Startups
KapitalGPT Turns Financial Education Into Games, Because Flashcards Had It Coming
KapitalGPT is gaming software for financial education, covering credit repair, real estate, stock market lessons, options, insurance, and FINRA exam prep.
Fintech
MoneyGram Built a Stablecoin for Remittances and Kept the Cash Window Open
MoneyGram's MGUSD launch shows stablecoins growing up into remittance infrastructure, where cash-out, FX, and settlement timing matter more than crypto ideology.