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Smaller Fintech Markets Should Stop Trying To Out-AI Silicon Valley
Murad Salikhov – serial investor and visionary | Partner at Schwarzwald Capital, empowering fintech and creator economy projects. Every fintech founder I talk to outside the U.S. eventually asks the same question: How do we compete…
View: Fintech startups that hated banks are now becoming them
“This is the beginning of a bankless world,” proclaimed a 2016 ad for SoFi, which embodied the sneering disdain its generation of fintech startups had for the banks they were out to dethrone. SoFi is now a bank, the 46th biggest in…
In a first, fintech company cracks U.S. top 50 in deposits
Key insight: Between July 2025 and June 2026, the number of U.S. banks fell by the largest amount in six years. Supporting data: At the end of June, there were 4,249 banks in the United States, down sharply from 13,002 in 1994. Forward look: The…
Russian FinTech Allegedly Laundered $6.9 Billion Via Global Banks
An investigation by the Financial Times (FT) published Monday (Sept. 21) found that A7, a company established as an alternative to western payment systems, used “old-fashioned money laundering” to move more than $6.9 billion through…
Fintech Stocks To Watch Today - September 22nd
3 Stocks Built for Higher Rates—And 2 That Could Break Rocket Companies, Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz, DeFi Development, Wealthfront, IDT, UP Fintech, and Netcapital are the seven Fintech stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's…
White Hats Send 52 Bitcoin to Coldcard Recovery Trust
Cointelegraph is committed to providing independent, high-quality journalism across the crypto, blockchain, AI, and fintech industries. All news, reviews, and analyses are produced with full journalistic independence and integrity. For more details…
Grab's Chief Operating Officer Buys Nearly 300,000 Shares for $867,000 After Stock Hits 52-Week Low
Alexander Charles Hungate, President and Chief Operating Officer, purchased 299,571 Class A Ordinary Shares in Grab Holdings Limited (GRAB +9.79%) on September 21, 2026, according to a recent SEC Form 4 filing. MetricValueTransaction…
Mastercard Divests 4.31% Stake in Pine Labs for Rs 933 Crore via Block Deals
Global payments giant Mastercard has completed its exit from Indian fintech firm Pine Labs, divesting its entire 4.31 per cent stake for a significant Rs 933 crore through strategic block deals on the BSE. Mastercard Asia/Pacific Pte Ltd sold its…
Business Culture Podcaster Sammi Cohen Is Launching Social Commerce Network (SCN), a Livestreamed News Show Inspired by TBPN and Aimed at Being a Next-Gen CNBC
Sammi Cohen has hundreds of thousands of followers who tune in to her podcast focused on the intersection of business, tech and culture — and she thinks they're hungry for a live dose of her brand of news and analysis. Next month, Cohen is…
Crypto's Wild Market Swings Are Fading, Solstice CEO Says
Ben Nadareski, CEO of Solana-based decentralized finance platform Solstice, said crypto markets are unlikely to return to the extreme boom-and-bust cycles as deeper liquidity brings stability to digital assets. Speaking on Cointelegraph's Chain…
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185 Years of Private Banking Heritage, A Legacy of Forward-thinking Stewardship
Innovation begins with trust. For nearly two centuries, the J. Safra Sarasin Group has built a reputation for financial strength and disciplined stewardship. It was ranked as the Best Performing Bank in Switzerland in The Banker's Top 1000 World…
JazzCash Named Finalist for Digitising Government Welfare Disbursement and Insurtech at The Money Awards 2026
Islamabad – September 22, 2026: JazzCash, Pakistan's leading digital financial services provider and a subsidiary of VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), has been named a finalist at The Money Awards 2026 in two categories: Strategic Alliance &…
Is Copper Giant Resources A Buy After The Stars Aligned In August? (TSXV:CGNT:CA)
Copper Giant Resources Corp. is a junior copper explorer with a major Mocoa deposit in Colombia, showing significant resource scale and recent positive drilling results. Recent catalysts include a $22.4M strategic financing, better-than-expected…
Exclusive: Can You Trust That AI Agent? Baselayer Raises $35M To Help Companies Decide
Baselayer, an AI-powered startup that helps financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, has raised $35 million to expand its identity technology to AI agents. M13 led the San Francisco-based company's Series A, with…
The AI advice gap: what happens when the machine says 'yes'?
Ask a UK bank for investment advice, and you get a lawful recommendation. If it was negligent, you will have the right to make a claim using the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Ask ChatGPT, or, more fashionable, Claude, the same question…
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