Mined in America Act Aims to Bring Crypto Mining to the US
The bipartisan Mined in America Act, sponsored by Senators Bill Cassidy and Cynthia Lummis, proposes a voluntary certification program for U.S. crypto‑mining facilities. It seeks to eliminate hardware sourced from geopolitical adversaries while providing federal energy grants and technical assistance from NIST and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. The bill also formalizes a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, aiming to shift both equipment and hash‑rate control to domestic producers. If enacted, the legislation would create a coordinated supply‑chain and energy framework for American cryptocurrency mining.
RTGS CHAPS Industry Forum
The Bank of England has opened nominations for a new RTGS CHAPS Industry Forum, seeking about 15 senior external members from banks, fintechs, large corporates and other stakeholders. The advisory body will help shape the design, development and operation of...
Tim Draper On Bitcoin And The Future Of The Financial System: 'After The Automobile, People Still Ride Horses For A...
Tim Draper told Benzinga that Bitcoin will eventually reshape the financial system, likening its adoption to people still riding horses after the automobile arrived. He highlighted that AI is currently in an "assist" phase, enhancing rather than replacing banking processes....
Fintech Firms Scramble for Banking and Payment Licences as Nigeria's New Vision Reshapes Competition
Nigeria’s central bank unveiled a Payments System Vision at the Africa Capital Forum, prompting fintechs to rush for banking and payment licences. The move coincides with $706.84 million of foreign capital entering the country’s banking recapitalisation, underscoring the high stakes for...
Bureau Veritas and Trade Technologies Link Compliance and Finance Workflows
Bureau Veritas and Trade Technologies have formed a partnership to embed inspection and conformity documents directly into trade‑finance workflows. The integration targets document‑heavy markets in the Middle East and Africa, aiming to speed up letter‑of‑credit (LC) processing and reduce compliance...
A LatAm Fintech’s Guide to Florida and the US Market
LatAm fintechs eyeing the U.S. market face a choice between obtaining their own state money‑transmitter license—often starting in Florida—or partnering with Banking‑as‑a‑Service (BaaS) providers. A Florida license costs roughly $10,000‑$50,000, while a national rollout can exceed $250,000 in fees and...
LoanDepot Partners with Texas Builder for New Lender Launch
LoanDepot has launched Olive Branch Home Loans, a mortgage affiliate for West Texas builder Betenbough Cos., which sells over 2,000 homes annually across eight sales centers. The partnership gives Betenbough access to LoanDepot’s wholesale infrastructure, technology and customer‑service expertise while...
Mobile Payments Stall as Switzerland Clings to Cash and Debit
Switzerland’s payment landscape remains dominated by cash and debit cards, with mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Twint capturing only 17% of transactions in 2025, a slight decline from the previous year. Debit cards lead at 37% of all...
Bureau Veritas, Trade Technologies Partner to Streamline Global Trade
Bureau Veritas and Trade Technologies have signed a strategic agreement to embed inspection and conformity certificates directly into letters of credit workflows. The integration automates document validation, cutting delays that traditionally slow export shipments. By combining Bureau Veritas' inspection expertise...
Congress Aims to Make Digital Dollars Easier to Use than Bitcoin Solidifying the ‘Digital Gold’ Narrative
Congress is moving ahead with the GENIUS Act, establishing a federal framework for dollar‑backed stablecoins that includes reserve backing, consumer protection, and cross‑border efficiency. The White House and Treasury have labeled these stablecoins as the next wave of payment innovation...
BetMGM Is the Latest Gambling Platform to Move Away From Credit Cards
BetMGM announced it will no longer accept credit‑card payments for its online sportsbook, following a Pennsylvania regulator‑imposed settlement over fraud and inadequate identity verification. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board fined the operator $100,000 after uncovering schemes where fraudsters opened hundreds...
Expert Witnesses Essential as AI Advice Liability Gaps Grow
When Conversational AI Meets the Courtroom: Why Expert Witnesses Matter for Financial Services Question: if agentic AI becomes standard for financial advice, who's liable when the agent hallucinates? Expert witnesses assess training data + logs to reconstruct chatbot behavior, determine foreseeability...
Hyperliquid Rolls Out Options Platform, Adds $30 Million Share Buyback
Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (NASDAQ: PURR) debuted options trading on its common shares on the Nasdaq Options Market, pairing the launch with a $30 million share repurchase program. The move is designed to deepen liquidity, broaden crypto exposure for institutional and retail...
Stablecon Launches First Policy Council of Stablecoin Experts
I'm excited to announce our inaugural @TheStablecon Policy Council: 🧠 @JoAnnBarefoot of @AIRinnovate 🧠@ChrisBrummerDr of @blupryntco and @Georgetown 🧠@CodyCarboneDC of @DigitalChamber 🧠@ccatalini of @MITSloan 🧠@_jikim of @crypto_council 🧠@Amanda_S_Wick of @AWICglobal 🧠And Stablecon's Head of Policy, Justin Friedman. These are current and former regulators, founders,...
Sumsub and Approvely Unite on Identity and Payments
Sumsub, a global verification and anti‑fraud platform, has partnered with Approvely to embed its KYC and AML screening directly into Approvely’s payments and risk‑management stack. The integration gives gaming merchants a single, compliant path from identity verification to transaction processing...
Mastercard's Pivot: A Bullish Strategic Bet on AI and Data
Mastercard's shares have fallen over 15% year‑to‑date as the company weighs selling its real‑time payments unit, acquired for $3.2 billion in 2019. Meanwhile, its high‑margin Value‑Added Services division posted 22% currency‑neutral revenue growth in Q4, far outpacing the 9% rise in...
Wirex Teams With Crossmint to Enable Easier Spending Via Stablecoins
Wirex has deepened its partnership with Crossmint to fuse its card‑issuance platform with Crossmint’s smart‑wallet and stablecoin‑orchestration layer. The integration lets fintechs and consumers spend stablecoins directly from digital wallets without juggling separate wallet and card providers. Crossmint will manage...
U.S. Bank Names Next COO
Toby Clements will assume the role of chief operations officer at U.S. Bank effective April 13, succeeding Souheil Badran, who is retiring after a three‑year tenure. Clements, a 2017 hire, has overseen operations in Europe, cards, merchant payments and client services,...
Ani Tech Launches Free AI Cash Flow App for Advisors
Ani Tech has introduced a free AI‑driven cash‑flow modelling app for UK financial advisers, allowing them to build and compare complex scenarios using natural‑language commands. The tool, powered by an agentic AI called ‘Flo’, automates data entry and provides real‑time...
Zeidler Advises on UCITS Eligibility for Structured Notes
Zeidler Group has highlighted the regulatory hurdles UCITS funds face when seeking exposure to structured debt securities, noting that eligibility must align with Article 50(1) of the UCITS Directive and the Eligible Assets Directive. The firm recently guided a Luxembourg‑based...
Zelle Renews Its Outreach to Minority Deposit Institutions
Zelle is renewing its outreach to minority deposit institutions by expanding partnerships with Velera and Jack Henry, making integration easier for community banks and credit unions. A survey of 250 banking executives shows 99% feel pressure to move money faster,...
Visa’s Stablecoin Ally Falls for Mastercard
London‑based stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK, which earlier announced a strategic investment and partnership with Visa to power Visa Direct stablecoin pilots, is being acquired by Mastercard for approximately $1.8 billion. The deal, announced on March 17, marks Mastercard’s biggest bet on on‑chain...
EToro Announces Upcoming Launch of eToro App Store
eToro announced the forthcoming eToro App Store, a marketplace that brings together investors, AI‑builders, and developers to share and install custom investing tools. The store will feature live apps from select eToro Pro investors and allow users to connect instantly...
Stripe’s Slow Rollout of Payment Cards Invites Competition
I think @Stripe needs to add payment cards ASAP to spend your balance Because I still don't have one and others are adding them fast Once the other fintechs also add checkout options (like @Airwallex has) there's a real switching opportunity for...
StoneX, Pathfinder Team up to Deliver Institutional-Grade Cross-Border Payment Capabilities for Financial Institutions
StoneX Group announced a partnership with The Pathfinder Group to embed its institutional‑grade payment infrastructure into Pathfinder’s WITS™ platform. The integration enables financial institutions, including community banks and credit unions, to access StoneX’s global payments network without intermediary banks, delivering...
Glia Wins Excellence Award for Safer AI in Banking
Glia, the AI‑powered customer‑service platform for banks, won the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award in the Banking and Financial Services category. The company’s solution automates up to 80 % of routine interactions while embedding safeguards against hallucinations and prompt‑injection attacks. Industry...
Nium Launches Dual-Network Stablecoin Card Issuance Platform
Nium has unveiled a dual‑network stablecoin card issuance platform that lets enterprises issue Visa and Mastercard cards through a single API. The service converts stablecoin balances to fiat at the point of sale, extending digital currency spend to hundreds of...
The State Of Stablecoin In Japan
Japan’s first regulated yen‑pegged stablecoin, JPYC, launched in October 2025 after the 2023 revision of the Payment Services Act. Operating under a Type II funds‑transfer license, JPYC can issue and redeem up to ¥1 million (≈US$6,700) per user daily and targets roughly ¥10 trillion...
Progress Ochuko Eyaadah Is Building the Blockchain Infrastructure Africa’s Payments Ecosystem Deserves and Teaching Women to Do the Same
Progress Ochuko Eyaadah, a senior blockchain engineer at Toyow and developer‑relations mentor at Women in DeFi, is designing Africa‑focused blockchain frameworks that tokenise real‑world assets and link fiat with crypto. Her work on platforms like Toyow and Sytemap creates transparent,...
The Evolution of B2B Payments in Europe: Interview with Rene Stynen, SVP of Business Development, EMEA at Boost Payment Solutions
Boost Payment Solutions’ SVP for EMEA, Rene Stynen, says Europe’s B2B payments are moving beyond SEPA’s simple money‑movement to focus on automation, reconciliation and integrated procurement workflows. Finance leaders are balancing working‑capital pressures with supplier liquidity needs, turning to commercial‑card...
Reverse Thinking Reveals Hidden Risks in FICO
"The mental habit of thinking backwards forces objectivity." – Charlie Munger. Many investors look at $FICO and see a perfect toll-bridge. But to truly understand it, you have to try to disprove the thesis. That's what I did. I just published Part...
Proactive Data Use Keeps Customers, Inactive Banks Lose Them
Customers expect their financial institution to use the data they already have to help them, not just react when problems occur. If your bank isn’t proactive, someone else will be. https://t.co/lAKdvKwfQg
PayPal Doesn’t Have a Growth Problem – It Has a Positioning Problem
PayPal’s Q4 2025 results show modest top‑line growth but a stalled premium checkout segment. Net revenue rose 4% to $8.7 billion, while total payment volume jumped 9% to $475.1 billion. Branded checkout – the high‑margin engine – grew only 1% year‑over‑year, far below...
Mobile Wallets Boost Security and Credit Card Utilization
Using payment services like Apple Pay and Google Pay can offer extra security and encourage you to maximize your credit cards. https://t.co/VPFoaKTwsB
USDC Accounts Now Essential for Growing Businesses
One of fastest growing financial platforms for businesses just launched USDC-based stablecoin accounts for use across treasury and payments. Pretty soon, if you're an SME, Startup or growth company, not having USDC support will be a competitive disadvantage.
STARTRADER Unveils Web STAR Copy to Enable Derivatives Copy Trading
STARTRADER introduced Web STAR Copy, a web‑based copy‑trading feature that allows retail investors to follow and automatically replicate options, futures and other derivative strategies. The tool promises greater transparency, risk controls and a new revenue stream for experienced signal providers.
Wells Fargo Forces Bilt Users to Opt Out
Kind of crazy, given Wells Fargo’s history, that Bilt users had to opt OUT of receiving a WF card during the “Bilt 2.0” transition https://t.co/j8RxDGWQh5
Finance Should Be Frictionless, Not App‑driven
The neobank era taught us one thing: People don't want to think about money Agentic finance takes that to its logical conclusion Zero cognitive load Zero manual intervention Zero friction We're not building better apps We're building systems that make apps obsolete
FAB Hosts Virtual AI Agentathon with Presight and Microsoft to Boost Enterprise AI
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) convened a virtual AI Agentathon on March 30, 2026, partnering with AI specialist Presight and tech giant Microsoft. The one‑day sprint brought together four cross‑functional teams to prototype AI‑driven solutions for real banking challenges, marking...
On‑chain Private Credit Will Outvalue Fiat Tokenization
Stablecoins are the first step in tokenization, but digital money is just where it starts. Many fintech and payments companies rely on access to responsive, reliable debt funding. Moving private credit on-chain will unlock even more value than on-chain fiat. https://t.co/0IXFQyd2Ti
Aave V4 Launches on Ethereum, Redefining Lending Protocol
Today marks the beginning of a new chapter for Aave as we launch Aave V4 on the Ethereum mainnet. Aave V4 is a next-generation lending protocol designed to expand Aave’s lending capabilities and establish the foundation for lending market structure...
FTC Report Shows $12.5 B Lost to Bank‑Account Fraud, Up 25% YoY
The Federal Trade Commission released its 2024 annual fraud report, finding that Americans lost $12.5 billion to bank‑account scams—a 25% increase from 2023. The surge underscores growing vulnerabilities in digital banking and puts pressure on fintech companies to upgrade fraud‑prevention tools.
Monument Bank Launches Tokenized Deposits for Mass‑Affluent
Tokenized deposits on a public blockchain. Not Citi. Not HSBC. Not the Big Six. A UK challenger bank targeting the mass affluent - @monument_bank Full post + carousel 👇 https://t.co/Kg4TjAbsqA https://t.co/ooy6zhmCvb
Execution, Not Clarity, Holds Back Banking Transformation
Clarity is not the problem in banking transformation. Execution is. In this episode, we explore why efforts around digital, AI, payments, and partnerships are falling short and what leaders must do differently. Watch the full episode: https://t.co/qrsFZDRVT6 https://t.co/ly49Ctb5m9
RedotPay Earns ISO/IEC 27001 Certification, Bolstering Stablecoin Payment Credibility
RedotPay, the Hong‑based stablecoin payment fintech, received ISO/IEC 27001 certification from SGS, confirming its information‑security management system meets global standards. The audit highlights robust encryption, data‑access controls and a security‑first culture, positioning the firm for deeper institutional partnerships.
BlackRock Hires Head to Drive Crypto Expansion
NEW: BlackRock is hiring a Head of Digital Asset Strategy in NYC to lead its expansion into crypto, stablecoins, and tokenization
Plaid CFO Says Fintech Company Has Earned the Right to ‘Pick Our Time’ for IPO
Plaid’s CFO Seun Sodipo says the fintech firm can afford to wait for the optimal moment to go public after posting a 40% jump in annual recurring revenue to over $500 million and delivering a full‑year adjusted EBITDA profit. The company...
Credit Card Annual Fees Are Soaring Past $800. Here’s Why People Keep Paying Them—Even as Perks Are Harder to Come...
Premium credit cards are now charging annual fees that top $800, with Robinhood, JPMorgan Chase, American Express, and Citi all offering high‑fee products packed with travel credits, dining allowances and exclusive lounge access. Issuers argue that stacked monthly credits and...
My Key Takeaways From MPE 2026 in Berlin.
The 2026 Money Payments Europe (MPE) conference convened in Berlin, spotlighting AI, cross‑border payments, stablecoins, and the emerging digital euro. Panels explored agentic commerce, pragmatic innovation in payment stacks, and the next generation of tokenization aimed at eliminating PANs by...
Pay10 Rolls Out Global Payments Platform with New Campaign
Pay10 has secured RBI authorization under the Payment Aggregator‑Cross Border framework and launched Pay10 World, a cross‑border payments platform for Indian businesses. The service lets firms accept multiple foreign currencies and settle in INR while automating FIRA compliance. A concurrent "No...