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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.