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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)

The first fintech just applied to be a bank - but will it be the last? (TWIF 12/19)

Hedge funds and VCs spar over the future of tokenized assets (TWIF 12/12)

An end-of-the-year mega-issue (TWIF 12/5)

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving (TWIF 11/28)

Do consumers care about decentralization? (TWIF 11/21)

Will Coinbase become a neobank or a superapp? (TWIF 11/14)

Do public markets matter anymore? (TWIF 11/7)

Canadian fintech Venn offers 2% yield to lure Canadian SMBs from big banks

Stables stables stables stables stables (TWIF 10/31)

The hub-and-spoke model of payments is coming to an end (TWIF 10/24)