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Luffa secures strategic investment from GoFintech Quantum at US$220 million valuation, pioneering AI + fintech frontier
HONG KONG, May 26, 2026 — Luffa AI, a leading innovator at the intersection of Web3 and Artificial Intelligence, today announced a strategic equity investment from Hong Kong-listed GoFintech Quantum Innovation Limited (“GoFintech…
Forget Palantir Technologies: This Cash-Flow Fintech Pioneer Under $30 Is a Considerably Better Buy
PayPal (PYPL) generated $5.56B in free cash flow, trades at 8x trailing, compared to Palantir (PLTR) which trades at 154x trailing earnings with a $328B market cap despite generating $2.27B in free cash flow. PayPal's fortress balance sheet and…
UK fintech hiring to surge as focus switches from neobanks
UK fintech is forecast for another hiring surge as the sector matures past the high-growth era of neobanks and focus turns to the rise of software and payments focused firms. Figures from City recruiter Morgan McKinley forecast fintech hiring to…
How a former institutional investor built a six-figure media business - and then pivoted into fintech
When David Stein launched his investing podcast in 2014, podcasting was still early enough in its history that Apple's search engine could be gamed with a few clever metadata tweaks. Stein discovered that if he included the names of popular finance…
Prompt is Not Runtime: Why I Rejected LLM State-Machines for Deterministic FinTech
There is an excellent article trending on Hacker News right now titled 'Prompt Is Not Runtime.' It targets a major architectural delusion of the current AI-hype cycle: the idea that we can use natural language prompts as a reliable execution…
Hyperliquid Launches Prediction Markets With Validator-Based Settlement
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AI | Alipay's AI Wallet and Token Pay a big bet on the future by Ant Group
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group is betting its future on a world where smart glasses are able to autonomously order, customise and pay for your coffee before you even step into a cafe. The Hangzhou-based company on Tuesday launched a new suite of…
Swinney asks parliament to 'put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar gets a chance to replay and he takes the opportunity to highlight former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell's admission that he embezzled more than £400,000 from the party over a 12-year period. Sarwar says…
Binance Embeds Event Trading into Its Wallet as Prediction Markets Grow into Core Infrastructure
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Digital payments: AI, stablecoins, and the new tech arms race (PYPL:NASDAQ)
SA Spotlight uses AI to summarize content published on Seeking Alpha. All summaries are reviewed by human editors prior to publication. Investors Should Know: Digital payments and fintech companies are drawing renewed attention as banks, fintech…
Indian central bank sets up panel on quantum technology for financial sector
The Reserve Bank of India has constituted an eight-member committee to examine questions linked to quantum technology and draw up a roadmap and framework aimed at making India's financial system quantum-secure. The group will be led by Anil…
Kira Financial Appoints Ex-FP Markets Exec Sophie Stabler as Head of Global Partnerships
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Equiti Jordan Signs Three-Year Tennis Federation Deal as Local Broker Market Crowds
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China's Cross-Border Crackdown Smacks of Nasdaq Envy
In a surprise move, China punished three brokerages for offering mainland investors access to overseas stocks without licenses, in an escalating attempt to control cross-border capital flows. The question is why now. Beijing's regulatory campaign…
Acuity Trading CEO Andrew Lane Takes Top Job at MarketReader Two Weeks After Equity Deal
Co-founder Jens Nordvig steps back to a board role at the New York AI startup. The dual-hat appointment comes weeks after Acuity disclosed an undisclosed-value stake. Andrew Lane, chief executive of London-based Acuity Trading, has taken on the…
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