Can crypto go mainstream without losing its soul? Stripe’s Tempo will test whether openness can survive at scale. Continue reading: Stripe Is Building A Blockchain: Can Openness Survive Branded Rails?...
Ten years ago, German banks operated more than 35,000 branches. A quarter-century ago, that number was closer to 60,000. Today, only 18,933 remain. Continue reading: The End Of Bank Branches: How Euro...
Podcast Episode · The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 27/05/2025 · 1h 27m Continue reading: 20VC: The Most Insane Story in Startups: Airwallex: The Angel That ...
Brex’s COO shares an inside look at Brex’s hard-earned lessons in scaling capital markets, all the way to AAA, the highest rating in the industry. Continue reading: The road to AAA: What w...
Podcast Episode · Tokenized · 05/12/2025 · 41m Continue reading: Should Banks Fear Stripe Stablecoin Accounts? Ft. Inversion Capital CEO Santiago Santos...
The social media giant is exploring how to use stablecoins to pay content creators, among other uses, according to sources familiar with the matter. Continue reading: Exclusive: Meta in talks to deplo...
xAI has teamed with Palantir to explore how financial services firms can employ AI. The partnership, announced Tuesday (May 6), is an extension of an Continue reading: xAI and Palantir Team to Promote...
Thinking Through the Topology of the Ring That Rules Them All Continue reading: # 66 | A Network Model of Money...
Breaking down a lending business from first principles into core components. TLDR: Lending is a complex beast of a business, much more than just giving out money and praying people will pay back. Cont...
In this edition of Fintech Wrap Up, I dove into the engine behind one of the most interesting players in global payments: Adyen Continue reading: Deep Dive: The Adyen Engine...
