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Airwallex launches billing product as $8 billion fintech continues to compete with rival Stripe
A Stripe competitor aims to challenge the incumbent fintech in yet another vertical. Airwallex, the $8 billion payments startup founded in Australia, announced on Wednesday that it was rolling out a billing product that helps businesses generate…
Even JPMorgan Payments feels pressure to compete with fintechs
Key insights: As the largest credit card issuer and merchant acquirer in the country, JPMorgan Payments processes about $12 trillion in payments per day. But it still tries to emulate nimbler fintechs. What's at stake: New and emerging payment…
DraftKings Moves Deeper Into Prediction Markets With DKeX CFTC Filings
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Trump supports CFTC in battle for authority to regulate prediction markets
The president's comments come as the CFTC is engaged in multiple legal fights with states seeking to impose their own restrictions on prediction market platforms, which allow users to wager on outcomes ranging from weather patterns to elections and…
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…
Prediction Markets Have a Young Men Problem
Growing numbers of young male users are placing bets in prediction markets, raising concerns about gambling-like behaviour, unequal access to tools, and weak regulation on fast-growing trading platforms. Paul Golden dives in. He also explores…
Best Rising Star Brokers 2026: Feature Overview
Evaluating platform conditions at Hola Prime Markets, PU Prime, and VT Markets. The global retail brokerage industry is fiercely competitive. While established mega brokers dominate the tier one regulatory space, a new category of 'Rising Star'…
Hyperliquid Launches Prediction Markets With Validator-Based Settlement
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'Frustration With Uncertainty, Cost': FMA Chief Barrass on the Sandbox That Produced One Launch
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China to crack down on 'illegal' cross-border securities
China announced a major crackdown on cross-border investment on Friday and said it would punish brokers it accused of illegally moving money to foreign markets, sending their shares plunging. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Online brokers Tiger…
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…
Kira Financial Appoints Ex-FP Markets Exec Sophie Stabler as Head of Global Partnerships
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Exclusive: Capchase, The 'Affirm for B2B,' Secures $200M In Debt And Equity
Financing startup Capchase has secured a new round of funding, consisting of $26 million in equity and a $174 million credit facility, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively. 01 Advisors led the round, which included participation from…
ASIC Hands Euroclear a May 2027 Deadline to Get Australian
The Brussels-based settlement provider has a year to file for a clearing and settlement facility license. The move follows ASIC's June 2025 licensing of rival Clearstream, bringing both global ICSDs under domestic oversight for the first time. The…
Agents on a leash: Agentic AI remains mostly single-agent and monitored at work - Stack Overflow
AI's impact on software engineering continues, and more and more of that AI is packaged as agents as results from our newest pulse survey show agentic usage has almost doubled (59%) since we last asked about it in our annual Developer Survey.
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