USA

Stablecoin-by-committee launches with 140+ partners

Will stablecoin issuers eventually look like TelCo's?

Banks may soon be able to charge fintechs for customer data, per CFPB (TWIF 6/26)

Also: JP Morgan succession battle, Meta's prediction markets, and the end of 'Britcoin'

Can fintech close the financial access gap? (TWIF 6/19)

Also: Visa and Revolut roll out new payment tools, Mercury launches AI banking, Rain cards drive 25% uplift in Avalanche cardholder spend

In prediction markets, the house always wins (TWIF 6/12)

Also: Mastercard and Visa battle in agent payments, Revolut expands high-interest savings in Europe while maneuvering around the ECB

Everyone is going to have a stablecoin strategy (TWIF 6/5)

MoneyGram, Coinbase, Checkout, Fireblocks, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and more companies launch stablecoin products. Also, Cash App launches a wand.

A major US bank launches its own stablecoin (TWIF 5/29)

Also: Mastercard gets its Bitlicense, Airwallex gets into corporate billing, and Whop launches a stablecoin card

EMEA is the next big stablecoin growth market (TWIF 5/22)

Also: The US proposes Fed accounts for fintechs, Revolut launches crypto card, and Plaid's super launch week

A Tale of Two Clarities (TWIF 5/15)

Also: Revolut private banking, the State of Stables, and Klarna earnings

Coinbase's stablecoin volume on Base grows 10x (TWIF 5/8)

Also: Revolut hits 70M customers, Polymarket insider winning concentration, Anthoropic launches finance agents, and Parker shuts down after raising $200M+

What happens when a stablecoin goes unstable? (TWIF 5/1)

Also: Thank you to the 7,500+ people who joined New York Fintech Week, more AI + fintech launches, and US banks in good shape

Circle mints $1B in 24 hours and launches managed payments (TWIF 4/10)

Also: TWIF USA break until May 1st, JP Morgan rings the tokenization bell, Bolt lays off 1/3 of workforce, World Liberty Financial in hot water

Private credit investors head for the door (TWIF 4/3)

Also: Agentic payments, NY Fed outflows, and the Stablecon Policy Council

Plaid & The Front Page of Fintech (TWIF 3/27)

Mastercard's Bvnk Shot (TWIF 3/20)

Also: Stablecon ticket prices go up at midnight!

Banks lobby against stablecoins as Wells Fargo registers WFUSD (TWIF 3/13)

Also: Mastercard dives head-first into AI and stables with Google, Binance, PayPal, Ripple partnerships

It's stablecoins *and* cards (TWIF 3/6)

Also: Kraken gets Fed Master access, Robinhood goes Platinum(ish), and X Money teases features

New York Fintech Week is Open (TWIF 2/27)

The State of Stables (TWIF 2/20)

Will the SaaS selloff hurt fintech? (TWIF 2/13)

Credit cards are booming and nobody cares about the rate cap (TWIF 2/6)

Also: Kalshi PR, agentic finance, Visa in China, and stablecoins for Y Combinator

Who are agentic payments actually for? (TWIF 1/30)

Also: Tether lands in America, Revolut comes to Mexico, Nubank gets US charter conditional approval

Tokenization stole the show at Davos, but will we get Clarity? (TWIF 1/23)

Banks only like crypto if they're the ones doing it (TWIF 1/16)

One Fintech Battle After Another (TWIF 1/9)

JP Morgan plans to be a crypto exchange; Mercury plans to be a bank (TWIF 12/27)