Podcast Episodes

⚠️ The Senate Wants to Kill Stablecoin Yield. Ramp Just Launched It Anyway. Plaid Is Taking Its Sweet Time.

The Senate just locked in an April markup for the CLARITY Act — and the central fight is whether stablecoins can pay you just for holding them. That …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

🔎 The FTC Comes for PayPal. Public Opens the Crypto Retirement Door. ICE Pays $600M to See the Future.

The FTC just handed PayPal's brand new CEO a regulatory grenade on his first week on the job — and Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe aren't sleeping easy …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

🏠 Coinbase Rewrites the Down Payment. BitGo Goes Full Institutional. SoFi's Loan Machine Won't Stop.

Today we're breaking down three stories that all point in the same direction: crypto infrastructure is going fully mainstream, and the fintech compan…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

🦈 Klarna Brings in a Shark. Paychex Quietly Flexes. MrBeast Sparks a Fintech Fight.

Klarna invites in activist giant Elliott and signals a new era of discipline, Paychex drops a quiet earnings beat that says more about the economy th…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

🚨 Coinbase Slides on DC Drama. Circle Tanks 20 Percent. Robinhood Fires Back with Buybacks

Crypto stocks just got a reality check. Coinbase (COIN) slides as DC starts circling stablecoin yields, Circle (CRCL) gets absolutely smoked on regul…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

🔪 HSBC Considering Cutting 20,000 Jobs. Palantir Eyes Mortgages. Kalshi Hits a $22B Valuation.

HSBC is in cost-cutting mode. Palantir is poking around mortgages like “we can fix this.” And Kalshi just raised $1B to let you trade…reality.

This ep…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

🤳 Robinhood Turns Trading Into Following. Visa Doubles Down on Crypto. Ramp Says Code or Cope.

Robinhood launches social trading features, Visa accelerates its stablecoin strategy through new crypto hiring, and Ramp pushes AI adoption as a core…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

🪐 Gemini Defies Gravity After a Miss. TIGR Prints Growth With a Catch. Greenlight Gets Its Gold Star.

Today’s Fintech Stacks dives into one of the most confusing market reactions you’ll see this year—a crypto company misses earnings, gets hit with a l…

7 months ago

🏆 SoFi Wins JD Power’s Chill Investor Crown. dLocal Delivers a Quiet Banger. Ripple Goes Samba Mode.

SoFi just took the crown for investor satisfaction, but it’s not by chasing traders—it’s by winning the long game. Meanwhile, dLocal keeps quietly do…

7 months ago

🥊 SoFi vs Muddy Waters. PayPal Expands PYUSD. Mastercard Buys A UK Crypto Bank.

SoFi gets hit with a Muddy Waters short report—and the stock doesn’t break. PayPal pushes PYUSD into 70 markets to revive its growth story. And Maste…

7 months ago