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The Blue Wave Hits Financial Services
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Episode 2: What Africa Can Teach the Industry About Credit & Collections
Collections Conversations, Season 2 (with C&R)
Banks Could Use Some Guidance on AI as Well
3 news stories, 2 reading recommendations, & 1 question.
Are We Ready for AI Agents?
No! And 19 other takeaways from the Agentic Readiness Summit.
Episode 1: Fintech’s Next Test Across the U.S. and U.K. Products
Collections Conversations, Season 2 (with C&R)
Bots, Blockchains & Bad Ideas
Highlights from Fintech Recap
AI Agents, SoFi, & the OCC’s “Irrefutable” Report
Listen to Fintech Recap on the Fintech Takes podcast.
Centralization for the Win
3 news stories, 2 reading recommendations, & 1 question.
Difficult, Not Impossible
A Plea for Builders (and some personal news!)
What Is Tempo? And Why Do We Need It?
Highlights from the Fintech Takes Podcast
The SOFIE Test
3 news stories, 2 reading recommendations, & 1 question.
Small Business, Big Onboarding Problem
How AI agents can handle the wild heterogeneity of SMB onboarding
Money2026
What I saw, heard, and thought about during a busy week.
Symphony, Spoolis, Piston, & MoneyStack
Highlights from Not Fintech Investment Advice
Symphony, Spoolis, Piston, MoneyStack
Listen to Not Fintech Investment Advice on the Fintech Takes podcast.
I Wish You Good Fortune in the Wars to Come
3 news stories, 2 reading recommendations, & 1 question.
A Digital Wallet For Agents
AI agents have arrived to unlock the digital wallet
Engineered to Never End
PayPal, Stripe, Ramp, and the state of venture-backed fintech companies in 2026.
Money’s Public Cloud Moment
And the work we have to do to meet it.
An Agent Walks Into a Bank...
Highlights from the Fintech Takes Podcast
Anatomy of an Agentic Transaction
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How Do You Verify if an AI Agent is Acting as a Fiduciary?
3 news stories, 2 reading recommendations, & 1 question.
Fintech's Rebundling Cycle
Unbundling wins customers. Bundling keeps them. The industry tends to cycle through both, in that order.
