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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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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'Frustration With Uncertainty, Cost': FMA Chief Barrass on the Sandbox That Produced One Launch
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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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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…
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