Capital One Landing at LaGuardia Just Opened — Best Lounge at LGA?
Capital One’s newest lounge at LaGuardia Airport opened Feb. 18 in Terminal B and is being billed as one of the airport’s best. The dining-focused facility, created in collaboration with chef José Andrés, features a 2,200 sq. ft. professional kitchen, table service, a tapas-style bar, roaming beverage carts and signature items like a caviar cone. With floor-to-ceiling windows, seating for about 180 guests and service to travelers from American, JetBlue, Air Canada, Southwest and United, the lounge aims to blend restaurant-quality dining with airport convenience. Early popularity is expected as passersby test the new offering.
Building a Startup as a Solo Founder | Techstars Founder Profile
The video profiles a solo Canadian founder who launched Hutsy, a fintech platform that streamlines short‑term lending for low‑income households. Drawing on years at TD Bank, he identified the predatory payday‑loan gap and built an app that matches borrowers with...
How Standard Chartered Is Positioning for the Future of Digital Assets
Standard Chartered is accelerating its digital‑asset agenda across investment banking, wealth management and retail, deploying capabilities on several blockchains rather than waiting for a single interoperability solution. The bank is integrating stablecoins to enable 24/7 cross‑border remittances and partnering with...
How Sinpex Is Building the Future of Banking Compliance in Europe
Sinpex is launching a harmonised compliance platform for banks, payment service providers and fintechs operating across the EU. The solution combines automation, AML controls and cross‑border reporting to reduce regulatory friction. By embedding a founder‑led culture of ownership, Sinpex aims...
Payment Spayce and Sagicor Bank: Innovating Fintech for the Caribbean Market
Payment Spayce and Sagicor Bank highlighted how wallet‑to‑wallet transfers abstract ACH, SWIFT and card networks, delivering instant, auditable payments. They emphasized that compliance—KYC, KYB, OFAC, PEP screening—is embedded directly into the transaction flow, turning regulation into an accelerator rather than...
How Low Can Mortgage Rates Go with Tariff Ruling and Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair?
The episode opens with Logan Modos Shami analyzing the Supreme Court’s decision that former President Trump’s use of a national‑emergency declaration to impose tariffs was unlawful, effectively ending the “Godzilla” tariffs that have loomed over trade policy. Modos explains that the...
Repo Market Stress Is Back (And Bigger Than You Think)
The video warns that repo market stress has resurfaced, tying together a sudden $30 billion surge in borrowing from the Federal Reserve’s repo facility, a historic jump in primary dealers’ Treasury holdings, and the recent turmoil at private‑credit manager Blue Owl. Since...
The Truth About Bitcoin’s Regulatory Win
The conversation frames Bitcoin’s recent regulatory breakthroughs as a classic Uber‑versus‑taxi story, with crypto platforms like Coinbase and Tether positioned to eat traditional banks’ lunch. Host Anthony Pompliano and guests argue that recent policy shifts—most notably the approval of Bitcoin...
Techstrong TV - February 20, 2026
TechStrongTV’s February 20 episode spotlights Kevin Green, co‑founder and chief marketing officer of Hapix, a startup building AI‑driven solutions for community banks and credit unions. Green explains that beyond product features, controlling the narrative around AI adoption is critical in a...
Phil McCall on Smarter Servicing with Data, AI, and Proactive Quality Control
In a Dallas‑based interview, Phil McCall, President and COO of ACES Quality Management, outlined how mortgage servicers can become "smarter" by leveraging data analytics, artificial intelligence, and proactive quality control. He emphasized that predictive models and AI‑driven automation enable early...
ING’s AI Roadmap: Platform, People, and Agentic AI
ING outlined a three‑pronged AI roadmap aimed at rapidly scaling agentic AI across its core business lines—contact‑center operations, know‑your‑customer (KYC) processes, and retail customer interactions. The bank plans to embed advanced AI models that can autonomously handle routine tasks while...
How Eastnets Is Using AI to Transform Banking Compliance
The video features Dian Nab, deputy CEO of Eastnets, outlining how the firm is leveraging artificial intelligence to overhaul banking compliance. He explains that Eastnets, with four decades in payments and security, is shifting AI from a mere efficiency tool...
📘 Check Kiting Explained with Example — CPA Exam (AUD) | Auditing Course
The video breaks down check kiting, illustrating how a fraudster moves funds between two bank accounts to artificially boost cash balances. By writing checks from an account with insufficient funds and depositing them into another, the scheme creates a temporary...
Who Calls the Shots in OCBC’s Corridors of Power?
The video, titled “Who calls the shots in OCBC’s corridors of power?” ostensibly aims to examine the internal power structure of OCBC, a major Asian bank. Such a focus would typically explore senior executives, board dynamics, and strategic decision‑making processes. However,...
MBA’s Marina Walsh on the Housing Market Outlook
In a HousingWire interview, MBA vice‑president Marina Walsh presented the Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest housing market outlook at the MBA Servicing conference. The outlook projects modest home‑price appreciation, steady mortgage‑originations, and a slight easing of delinquency rates as the economy...
How Temenos Is Delivering Banking Modernisation at Global Scale
Temenos is enabling global banks to modernise at pace by shifting from risky, multi‑year core replacements to modular, incremental transformation. The firm leverages AI to analyse legacy code, automate testing and speed upgrades, while a partner ecosystem expands delivery capacity....
Figma's AI Outlook, Blue Owl Stokes Credit Concerns | Bloomberg Businessweek Daily 2/19/2026
Bloomberg Businessweek Daily highlighted two contrasting stories on Thursday, February 19: Figma’s AI‑driven growth trajectory and Blue Owl Capital’s liquidity curtailment in a private‑credit fund. The market backdrop featured modest equity declines, a VIX edging toward 21, and oil prices...
How Temenos Is Powering the Future of Global Money Movement
Temenos is positioning its Money Movement and Management platform as the backbone for the accelerating global payments ecosystem, promising banks, fintechs and non‑bank payment service providers a unified solution to handle everything from instant domestic transfers to complex cross‑border settlements. The...
What Are Payment Rails?
The video defines payment rails as the infrastructure that lets money move instantly across multiple channels, from card networks to paper‑based banking, and argues that a single, unified platform is the ideal solution for merchants. It stresses that fragmented data—separate feeds...
How Commercial Real Estate Loans Actually Work
The video breaks down the mechanics of commercial real‑estate financing, emphasizing that loan sizing is driven by four core ratios—debt service coverage ratio (DSCR), debt yield, loan‑to‑value (LTV) and loan‑to‑cost (LTC). These metrics collectively cap the maximum loan amount a...
Trapped Equity and the Next Mortgage Opportunity
HousingWire’s Housing Economic Summit highlighted the shift from securitization to whole‑loan trading, emphasizing that liquidity on the secondary market now rivals loan origination importance. John Toohig of Raymond James explained that after the 2021‑2022 refinance surge, lenders should target HELOCs,...
How Global Tokenisation Deposits Are Unlocking New Economic Value
At the Digital Assets Forum in London, Jacob Mikkel Hansen of the Nordic Blockchain Association said the Nordic region has shifted from skepticism to active engagement with blockchain as practical use cases, supportive regulation (including MiCA) and stablecoins have accelerated...
How FreedomPay Is Powering Global Merchant Payments Innovation
FreedomPay is scaling its agnostic commerce platform across North America, Europe, the UK, APAC, South America, and the Caribbean, enabling merchants to process payments globally with local expertise. The company leverages partnerships such as WorldPay and deep integrations with POS,...
Senators Press SEC Chair on Agentic AI Guardrails During Senate Banking Committee Hearing
Senators pressed SEC leadership during a Senate Banking Committee hearing to address risks from 'agentic' AI systems that can autonomously execute trades, raising questions about who would bear liability if such tools commit illegal or harmful acts. Lawmakers warned that...
They’ve Scamming with AI Clones of YOUR Voice
The video warns that AI‑generated voice clones are being weaponised in the United Kingdom to bypass bank authentication and steal money from vulnerable consumers. Criminal groups first conduct seemingly innocuous lifestyle surveys, harvesting health, financial and personal details. Using that data...
Why Payments Can’t Be Modernised in Isolation
The video argues that payment modernization cannot be pursued in isolation; banks must view payments as one component of a complex ecosystem that includes core banking, fraud detection, sanctions screening and multiple channels. Volante positions itself as a partner that delivers...
The Largest Banks in the World Just Did the Unthinkable
The video examines unprecedented stress in China’s banking sector, highlighting that the world’s four largest banks are Chinese and that recent data suggest a “Japanification” scenario. It details record‑low one‑year loan rates, the PBOC’s hidden rate cut, and S&P’s warning that...
Google’s Take on the Future of Fintech: Beyond Neobanks and BNPL
In a recent talk, Google analysts warned that the fintech boom built on neobanks and buy‑now‑pay‑later (BNPL) products is reaching saturation, and the industry’s next wave is a pivot toward business‑to‑business (B2B) banking‑as‑a‑service. The speaker explained that many neobanks have already...
How Loomis Pay Is Unifying Cash, Card & Digital Payments | NRF 2025
Loomis Pay used its NRF 2025 stage to unveil a unified payments solution that combines cash, card and digital transactions into a single, end‑to‑end package. The fintech arm of the Loomis group, celebrating its fifth anniversary, highlighted its presence in...
A Banking Crash May Start Soon If You See What People Are Saying...
The video warns that a banking collapse could materialize soon as higher interest rates and reduced central‑bank stimulus tighten liquidity, forcing banks to scramble for deposits. It contrasts the traditional bailout approach with a possible bail‑in, where depositors might receive...
How Spayce Is Turning Barbados Into a Fintech Hub | Money20/20 USA 2025
At Money20/20 USA 2025, Marilyn Brathweight, chief of staff for Space Technologies Inc. in Barbados, outlined the company’s strategy to transform the Caribbean nation into a fintech hub. She highlighted Barbados’ 50‑year‑old, stable banking sector, supportive fintech legislation, and an abundant...
Home Loans Surge… But the RBA Just Hit the Brakes | Property Insiders
Australia’s December-quarter ABS data show a sharp rise in home lending—total home loans up 5.1% in the quarter and 13.4% year‑on‑year—with first‑home buyer and investor lending notably stronger (first‑home buyers +6.8% quarter, +9.1% year; investors +5.5% quarter, +23.6% year). New...
Petr Baron - Opportunities From Creating A Challenger Bank In SE Europe
The video features Petr Baron discussing the opportunities of launching a challenger bank in Southeast Europe, highlighting the region’s untapped potential and the broader fintech wave reshaping banking. He notes that traditional banking has been static for years, while fintech startups...
Zero Interest Funding: A Game Changer for Entrepreneurs
The podcast introduces Jack McCall, co‑founder of Scale With Funding, which markets a zero‑interest financing model that lets entrepreneurs secure $50,000‑$150,000 in capital without traditional income verification. McCall explains that business credit cards with 0% APR for 12‑18 months are the...
Why Is Now the Right Time for More Sovereign Tokenisation Developments?
London’s Digital Assets Forum highlighted Lloyd’s Banking Group’s Great British Tokenized Deposit (GBTD) initiative, a UK‑driven effort to issue interoperable, bank‑backed digital money on blockchain. The project aims to replace a fragmented stable‑coin market with a single, regulated token that...
Roque Martinez - What Are Some SmartStream Use Cases?
The video spotlights a SmartStream deployment at a large European bank, focusing on how the platform streamlines the notoriously time‑consuming reconciliation process. Roque Martinez explains that the bank sought to shrink the duration of reconciliations and improve overall workflow efficiency. SmartStream...
Bilt 2.0 Explained: Messy Rollout or Hidden Opportunity?
The video dissects Bilt’s recent rollout of three new credit cards and the accompanying Bilt Cash currency, a move that has sparked criticism for its intricate reward architecture. While the core promise remains—unlimited points on rent and mortgage payments—the program now...
Integrating Geopolitical Risks and Emerging Trends: How Can Risk Leaders Conquer Complexity?
The interview with Massimo focuses on how financial institutions are integrating geopolitical risk into their broader risk‑management agenda, moving the issue from strategic planning into the daily purview of chief risk officers and finance teams. He argues that vendors such...
How Risk Transformation May Define Firms Ability to Stay Competitive
The discussion centers on why 2026 will be a pivotal year for risk transformation in B2B fintech, especially within asset and dealer finance. Adam Tate argues that overlapping pressures—from tighter credit regulation to rapid technological advances—are forcing firms to rethink...
Market Growth & Digitisation: Advancing Mortgage Lending in 2026
Alex Lipitch and Paul Walton discussed the outlook for UK mortgage lending, projecting a modest 4% rise to roughly £320 bn by 2026. The conversation highlighted that the real battleground will be retaining the 1.8 million borrowers whose fixed‑rate deals expire this...
Crypto Winter or Correction? This Analyst Explains the Difference
The interview centers on whether today’s crypto slump constitutes a prolonged "crypto winter" or merely a market correction. Analyst Andrew argues the former is inaccurate, noting that while Bitcoin has fallen about 45% and Ethereum roughly 55% since October, development...
Russia Is Becoming a Second-Rate State Under Putin, Says Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group warned that Russia is slipping into a second‑rate state under Putin, while the United States is abandoning its traditional role as the guarantor of collective security, free trade and democratic norms. Bremmer argued that the U.S....
PayPal Is Running Out of Time, Says Former President
In a candid interview, former PayPal president and LightSpark CEO David Marcus warned that Bitcoin’s recent price weakness is less a market correction than a structural shift toward institutional ownership. He argued that the October 10, 2026 events accelerated the transition from...
Bastion CEO Says Stablecoin Adoption Depends on Enterprise-Grade Financial Infrastructure
The video features Bastion's CEO outlining how stablecoin adoption hinges on robust, enterprise‑grade financial infrastructure, especially in the Asia‑Pacific region. He notes that firms in Japan, South Korea and other APAC jurisdictions face shrinking domestic populations, prompting them to seek growth...
Why the Rising Federal Debt Could Limit AI and Overall Economic Growth
The Wharton Future of Finance conference tackled a looming fiscal dilemma: the United States’ trajectory toward $2 trillion‑a‑year budget deficits could starve the economy of the capital needed to sustain AI research and broader digital transformation. Professors Gomez and Goldstein warned...
Bread Financial CEO Unveils Game-Changing AI Strategy
Bread Financial CEO Ralph Andreda highlighted a strong finish to 2025, reporting fourth-quarter results that included 23% tangible book value growth and adjusted EPS up 57% to $12.16, alongside a 12% reduction in share count and a 10% dividend increase....
President Lagarde Presents the Latest Monetary Policy Decisions – 5 February 2026
President Christine Lagarde’s February 5 press conference confirmed that the European Central Bank kept its three key policy rates on hold, emphasizing a data‑dependent stance as inflation eases toward the 2% medium‑term target. The meeting also marked Bulgaria’s accession to...
ECB Governing Council Press Conference - 5 February 2026
The European Central Bank’s Governing Council met on 5 February 2026 and left its three policy rates unchanged, underscoring a data‑dependent, meeting‑by‑meeting approach. The press conference also marked Bulgaria’s formal entry into the euro area on 1 January, bringing the bloc’s membership to...
From Quantum to Stablecoins: Regulation Predictions for 2026
Finextra’s Predict 2026 special edition examined how regulatory timelines will shape payments and digital assets in 2026, from the final phases of ISO 20022 migration to emerging quantum legislation and the US‑driven stable‑coin push. Dominique Diggs noted that the coexistence period between MT...
Core Banking: Why 2026 Will See Progressive Modernisation Soar
The FinextraTV interview with Will Moroney, Temenos’ chief revenue officer, spotlights core‑banking transformation as the defining agenda for 2026. Moroney frames the conversation around three enduring pillars—reliability, adoptability and customer‑centricity—and argues that banks must modernise the underlying core platforms to...