Credit Unions Excel by Executing Fintech Partnerships and AI
Strategy decks are everywhere in banking. Execution is where most institutions struggle. Jesus Garcia of @OceanAir_CU discusses what’s actually working in the credit union sector right now, from fintech partnerships to AI adoption. Watch the full episode, sponsored by @Q2_Software: //youtu.be/tGaZ5ZueuVs
DeFi Needs AI-Friendly Execution Rails, Not Token Governance
DeFi isn't broken It's just built for the wrong species Every protocol assumes humans are making decisions But AI agents don't need governance tokens They need execution rails
AI Boosts Productivity, but Also Fuels Fraud Surge
AI cuts costs. AI also cuts the cost of fraud. The same tooling driving efficiency is fueling the fraud surge. Financial services can't run an AI productivity strategy without a parallel fraud controls strategy. AI was meant to boost productivity. It...
Aave's GHO Supply Hits $565M, Targets $1B Year-End
Aave’s second business line, GHO, has now reached $565M in total supply. On the way to $1B by the end of the year. https://t.co/qyG76L2Z1L
OceanAir Bridges Credit Union Transformation Gap
[New Episode] How OceanAir Is Closing the Credit Union Transformation Gap. Interview with Jesus Garcia of @OceanAir_CU. Watch the latest episode on the Banking Transformed Podcast channel on YouTube. Watch the latest episode sponsored by @Q2_Software: https://t.co/VtR2LEbWma https://t.co/cisrp4Lmlv
US Users Test X Money by Donating to Shatner
If you are a US resident, willing to test X Money for feedback (need to donate to @WilliamShatner 's charity). More Greenback digitalization 😉 https://t.co/ZIp8QncQ4J
30‑Minute Window Holds 67% of Your Profit
"67% of your potential profit was hidden in a single 30-minute window each day." How do you get such stats? You need a powerful trading journal: https://t.co/Tv7Ihsxugk. Check the example below. 👇 This isn't luck. 🙂 ✅ It's deep data analysis made simple. @TradesViz's Multi-Timeframe...
Instant $68M Inter‑Company Settlements Using USDC
We’re eating our own dog food. We’ve begun using our own platform to settle inter-company settlements — $68M across 8 entities. Under 30 minutes. 24/7. Our Treasury team did this with USDC and Circle Mint — replacing fiat wires that take 1-3...
SpotPay Launches Universal Account Across 40+ Countries
SpotPay is building the Global Bank Account. One account that lets anyone send, receive, and spend money locally and across the globe. They’re already live in 40+ countries. https://t.co/RSc6UwlrDZ https://t.co/lV8KO2qvrJ
AI CFO and Back‑Office Revolutionize Business Banking
Interesting idea. If done right, this could change how banking works for business owners. An AI CFO that helps manage finances and an AI-native back office that speeds up things like underwriting could make the whole experience much faster and simpler.
Morgan Stanley's Crypto Push: Profit, Not Decentralization
Look Morgan Stanley isn't "rushing into crypto" They're rushing into revenue Bitcoin ETFs generate management fees Wealth advisors get commissions The firm captures flow This has nothing to do with decentralization It's the oldest game in finance wearing a new mask
Prohibit Government CBDC to Protect Privacy, Choice, Innovation
Americans deserve financial privacy, real consumer choice, and the freedom to innovate. Prohibiting a government-issued CBDC protects those values while allowing market-driven solutions like stablecoins and decentralized networks to modernize payments. The future of money should be open, competitive, and...
Stablecoins and Cards Unite to Supercharge Payments
It was never stablecoins vs. cards. The true opportunity for stablecoins to become a mainstream consumer payments option was always stablecoins *and* cards. We discussed this in our Q1 State of Stablecoins and this week, @Visa and @Stablecoin announced they’re expanding their...
Private Credit Drain Threatens Compute Expansion Funding
If private credit sucks liquidity out of the market The hyperscalers max out their cash Then there isn't enough money in the world for the compute build out
AI Agents Fuel Stablecoin Surge Ahead of Mainnet
Circle: AI agents are already driving stablecoin demand. Arc testnet hit 166M transactions. Mainnet hasn't launched yet. The infrastructure race for machine-speed payments is underway — KYC/AML frameworks are not. How Circle Is Marrying Stablecoins With Agentic Commerce https://t.co/QuY14r2lgr
Bilt Users Outraged over Rent Payment Delays and Dead‑end Support
Bilt users are PISSED. Delayed or bounced rent payments. Customer service from unhelpful AI bots with human agents seemingly missing in action. Any info on what’s happening? My DMs are open.
Gen Z Demands Transparency, Speed, Empathy—Banks Must Adapt
Are Gen Z customers worth it? Absolutely. But they’re going to demand more transparency, more speed, more empathy, and more control. The real question is: Are banks ready for the friction that comes with higher expectations? https://t.co/pgkCkSGKYM
Crypto Moves From Retail to Autonomous Machine Economy
Look at the pattern: • Stripe adds USDC support • Coinbase builds Base L2 • Ethereum upgrades for scalability They're not competing for retail users anymore They're competing for autonomous agents that will process trillions in microtransactions The machine economy is the endgame
Banking's Future: Tech‑First Solutions Over Branches
Forget old banking playbooks. The future is not about branches or products. It is about building tech-first solutions that scale globally. https://t.co/5GhOAJ3m8S
UAE Launches World's First Sovereign Financial Cloud
The UAE Central Bank just built the world's first sovereign financial cloud — AI for AML, fraud, CBDC, zero-trust access, quantum-resistant encryption. Sovereign compute is now a national infrastructure decision, not a vendor one. World's First Sovereign Cloud System for Finance...
Interoperability Ensures Uniform Rights for Digital Assets
Same asset, same rights, same outcome: The complex undertaking of interoperability in transacting and settling with #DigitalAssets across distributed ledgers. 🆕White Paper by @The_DTCC, @Clearstream, @EuroclearGroup, @BCG: https://t.co/WMoLfjd8GT #DLT #blockchain #securities https://t.co/94oTorfiKP
Tokenisation Is Finally Reshaping Markets as Predicted
#FlashbackFriday In 2020, I argued that tokenisation would remake markets, with public and private money becoming digital assets on shared rails. We seem to be edging that way. https://t.co/Hx9fOy0aBT Yesterday’s future. Progress optional.
Polygon's Lisovo Hardfork Stabilizes Fees and Enables Passkey Wallets
Yesterday @0xPolygon shipped the Lisovo hardfork. This now enables: 1. Dampening of Gas fees spikes via dynamic block gas limits. This makes gas fees stable and predictable 2. Increasing transaction quality by re-broadcasting dropped txns 3. Passkey wallet support - Face ID and...
Swedish Central Bank Urges Cash Hoarding Amid Payment Risks
Swedish central bank urges public to horde cash in case of payments disruption https://t.co/ckNfNUQsve "The Riskbank is currently working on improving the possibility of making offline payments by card to strengthen resilience." https://t.co/yLYmWsDoh0
AI Agents Need Locked, Capped Cards—Lithic Leads
giving ai agents specific cards that can be locked per merchant and have spending caps is an obvious payment solution. probably more obvious than stablecoins which have a ton of payment adoptions. @lithic is probably the only fintech platform company...
Strike Secures NY BitLicense, Launches Premier Bitcoin Experience
Announcing @Strike in New York. We have secured our BitLicense. The finance capital of the world now has the world's best Bitcoin experience. Built by Bitcoiners, for Bitcoiners 🫡 https://t.co/tLvYOHBLnF
Prediction Markets Threaten Security Like Bloomberg Terminal
A ‘Bloomberg Terminal’ for espionage? In this episode of DEX in the City, hosts @TuongvyLe12, @kkirkbos & Jessi Brooks discuss: ⚠️ Whether prediction markets are becoming a national security concern 👀 Whether alleged programmatic Bitcoin sales by Jane Street qualify as market manipulation ❕️...
Fintech's Future Lies in Infrastructure, Not Consumer Hype
European fintech is entering a phase where the underlying structure matters more than the story. For most of the past decade, consumer challengers defined the category. Neobanks like Monzo and Revolut proved that better interfaces could acquire millions of users quickly. But...
Early Draft Review Uncovers Fresh Views
Complex Systems this week is a tiny experiment: I did a read of a work-in-progress essay rather than the finished version with author's commentary. It's about secondary authentication/authorization, particularly for payments.
Institutions Rarely Ask About Solana, Focus on Ethereum
“I have had hundreds of conversations with institutions. Only once I’ve been asked about Solana” @dannyryan
Institutions Seek Open Neutral Infrastructure, Boosting FOCIL
"Institutions WOULD want FOCIL. They want an open, neutral infrastructure. This is a mega boost for that." @dannyryan https://t.co/1PTN6HaUfE
Global USD Demand Fuels Stablecoin Profits, Threatens Banks
One of reasons banks are freaking out about stablecoins, even though stablecoins don't pay yield, is bc there is more demand for USD outside the US than there is inside the US. And that means billions (no...trillions) of profits going...
Morgan Stanley's Crypto Shift: Competition, Not Risk, Drives Change
The irony: Morgan Stanley spent years keeping advisors away from crypto to "protect clients" Now they're racing to capture allocation before Merrill, UBS, and Wells Fargo eat their lunch Risk management was never the issue Competition always was
Decentralized Finance Ensures No One Can Pause Your
If your financial life can be paused by someone else, you do not truly own it. Blockchains allow decentralization, which allows distributing control to individuals, which ensures no single entity can pause your financial life and own them.
Digital Features Aren’t Transformation; Culture and Process Matter
The industry has confused adding digital features with true transformation. Having a mobile app and digital account opening doesn’t make you digitally mature. Real transformation changes culture, processes, and mindset. Download the free report now: https://t.co/gNGFxphUMy https://t.co/bz0SeOWTSW
CashApp's Credit Risk Management Highlights Intentional Crime Controls Lapses
Still thinking about @AlexH_Johnson & my pod convo about @CashApp's plan to sell its internal credit scores to third parties That the company seems to be able to manage *credit risk* reasonably effectively makes its financial crime control failures look even...
Bitcoin Rebounds, Proving Market Fit Amid Geopolitical Shock
Bitcoin dropped on the Iran strike news — then bounced back to $70k while gold hit $5,400. Ram Ahluwalia. Austin Campbell, Chris Perkins say that's a signal. Plus: 🤖 Is Anthropic principled and Sam Altman mercenary? 🏛️ Why stablecoin legislation...
Agentic Commerce Starts with Cards, Moves to Stablecoins
Agentic commerce will use cards first, then stablecoins. The "stablecoins agentic payments" discourse is missing so much nuance. @nlevine19 did a great job starting the conversation. I think we can go much further. Here's my thesis: https://t.co/yNzQdwx3hS
CreditOneBank Actually Serves Underserved Consumers, Others Don't
Almost all financial institutions say they want to support underserved consumers, but few actually ‘walk the walk’ like @CreditOneBank. #creditaccess #financialwellness #ad https://t.co/FvCz5e7Jnp
Plaid Poised to Replace Budgeting Apps via API
Feel like @Plaid is very well positioned to make a good user facing api to eat all the garbage budgeting software (mint, monarch, etc) They did the hard part already by building connectors with banks Let me auth in, connect a read...
AI Agents Get Full On‑Chain Wallet Toolkit
You need to understand something. AI agents are going to need real financial rails, i.e. real wallets, real identity, real payments. The team just shipped exactly that. One CLI, everything an agent needs to go onchain on Polygon. We literally just gave...
Zero‑Human Companies Are Already Redefining Work with Crypto
The first zero human companies are already using crypto DAO treasuries managing themselves AI agents settling in stablecoins Smart contracts as the entire org chart We're not ready for what this means for employment Or equity Or anything, really
Elon Musk Announces BAAS Beta Test for X Money
Elon Musk confirms the BAAS setup for X money as beta testing has shyly started https://t.co/2l00gddeOG
Crypto's Long-Term Outlook Better Than Ever, Says Hadick
War in the Middle East. Rate confusion. A stablecoin bill stuck between banks and crypto. And yet: Rob Hadick says the long-term setup for crypto is "as good as it's ever been." Institutional flows, tokenization momentum, DeFi finally showing product-market...
Revolut Seeks U.S. Banking Charter After Securing UK License
Revolut, which struggled but eventually obtained its U.K. bank charter, has applied for one in the U.S., the company announced this morning: https://t.co/rNHcC6IgWC
Matt Hougan Reveals Weekend Events That Shook Finance
🔥 @Matt_Hougan explains why this past weekends events SHOOK Finance👀🌐 $BTC $ETH $SOL $XRP https://t.co/jmMohP7J34
Five Unexpected Companies That Could Acquire PayPal
Who Should Acquire PayPal? 5 Potential Acquirers Nobody’s Talking About PayPal is now considered to be a prime acquisition target. Who besides Stripe would be a good acquirer? Here are 5 potential candidates. Try to keep an open mind. https://t.co/rrD4BdDrG8
Beyond Features: Redefine Value in an AI-Driven Market
Your products are no longer differentiators. Digital is expected. Rates are aligned. AI compares features instantly. Competing on what you offer is a losing game. We discuss a different path with Allison Netzer, founder and CEO of BrandThnk. Watch the...
Paperclip Enables Fully Autonomous, Zero‑Human Companies
We are nearing economic liftoff and financial singularity And banks are still trying to automate away document ingestion
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