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The UK's Newest Way To Buy Stocks Is A Crypto App
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Coinbase sells stocks now.
British users can now trade U.S. stocks directly through Coinbase. No second app, no separate brokerage account needed.
Everyone's building the same product from different corners.
For example, Robinhood started with stocks and bolted on crypto. Coinbase started with crypto
Klarna vs. Affirm: Who Is Winning The BNPL Race?
Starling's Profit Dip And The Plan To Fix It
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Bernadette Smith, appointed to lead Starling's banking operations in June, sat down with City AM just six weeks into the role.
Pre-tax profit fell 3% to £217m last year, and revenue slipped 5.6% as falling interest rates exposed how dependent Starling still is
zerohash Powers Visa Direct: Stablecoins Go Live
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Visa Direct just got a stablecoin upgrade.
zerohash is now powering stablecoin prefunding and payout capabilities for eligible Visa Direct clients, unlocking 18 billion endpoints across 195+ countries.
Think about what that means: businesses can now prefund accounts and disburse payouts in stablecoins through one of the
Western Union Just Put Its Stablecoin Card On Rain's Rails
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Western Union just launched a stablecoin-powered card.
The 175-year-old remittance giant rolled out Stablecard, built on Rain's stablecoin infrastructure. Remittances now land as USDPT, Western Union's own stablecoin on Solana, and can be spent instantly anywhere Visa is accepted.
The
🚨It's OFFICIAL: Mastercard Just Bought BVNK
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Mastercard just closed the deal on BVNK, and it's a statement move. 🚨
The payments giant has completed its acquisition of BVNK to advance its global stablecoin capabilities. If you've been watching Mastercard's strategy over the past year, this isn't
The Banking License Everyone's Chasing
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Another FinTech company is making its move toward becoming a federally regulated bank.
Dakota, currently operating as a registered Money Services Business, has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank charter. The goal: become a federally regulated provider of digital asset custody, stablecoin issuance, and
The $12M Behind Sokin's $90M RR Net Revenue
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Sokin just dropped its H1 numbers, and they're the kind that make you do a double-take 🤯
The B2B payments company closed the first half of 2026 at $90M RR Net Revenue, up more than 100% year-over-year, and is tracking to $120M+ by
The New FinTech Playbook? Own the Bank
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For years, FinTech companies built great products on top of banks.
Now, some of them are deciding that's no longer enough.
Darragh Buckley, Stripe's first employee and founder of Increase, has acquired and rebranded a U.S. bank to build the infrastructure he
American Express Keeps Momentum Going in Q2 2026
AI Is Changing More Than Products
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For years, AI in FinTech was mostly about building better products and improving customer experiences.
Now it's starting to reshape the companies themselves.
Visa announced it will reduce its workforce by around 7% as it shifts resources toward areas such as AI, cross-border payments,
The Next FinTech Arms Race Is Intellectual Property
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For years, FinTech companies competed by launching new products faster than everyone else.
Now they're also competing to own the technology behind them.
Circle's acquisition of IBM's blockchain patent portfolio—more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued patents—
FinTech's Next Battleground Is AI
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Payments companies spent the past decade building the infrastructure for moving money.
The next race may be about building the infrastructure for AI.
Stripe is reportedly in talks to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace that helps businesses route requests across hundreds of AI models. If the