Podcast Episodes

AI Wants Your Wallet — OpenAI’s Fintech Flex, Fifth Third’s $10B Bank Merge, and Galaxy’s Yield

OpenAI just bought a personal finance app to teach ChatGPT how to manage your money. Fifth Third and Comerica are fusing into a $10.9 billion regiona…

1 year ago

🛠️ Affirm’s BNPL for drills, DailyPay CEO shakeup, UBS goes blockchain

Fintech is creeping into your hardware store, your paycheck, and even your Swiss bank account. In today’s Fintech Stacks, we break down three big mov…

1 year ago

Fiserv Stablecoin Play, SoFi Options Confusion, Jack Henry Buys Victor

Today on Fintech Stacks:

Fiserv (FI) buys StoneCastle to fuel a stablecoin strategy regulators might actually like.

SoFi (SOFI) finally launches Level …

1 year ago

Nubank Goes U.S., Stripe Prints Coins, Robinhood Bets Big

If fintech were an NBA trade deadline, yesterday would’ve blown up your group chats. Nubank (NU) is going for a U.S. bank charter. Stripe just launch…

1 year ago

💸 Stripe + OpenAI Commerce, Robinhood’s Prediction Boom & Wealthfront’s IPO

Today on Fintech Stacks:

Stripe and OpenAI link up to bring checkout directly into ChatGPT

Robinhood’s prediction markets hit 4 billion contracts, send…

1 year ago

Fintech Stacks: Bancorp’s Valuation Check, MercadoLibre’s Identity, Revolut’s IPO Flirt

In today’s episode, we cover:
🏦 Bancorp (TBBK) earnings spark valuation questions
🛒 MercadoLibre (MELI) proves it’s more than “Amazon of Latin America”…

1 year ago

🚀 Cloudflare’s Stablecoin, PayPal’s Crypto Payroll, Citi’s $2.3B Banamex Deal

Today on Fintech Stacks: Cloudflare ($NET) mints a stablecoin, PayPal ($PYPL) wants to pay you in crypto, and Citi ($C) sells a $2.3B slice of Baname…

1 year ago

FIS Buys In, Coinbase Bets on Stablecoins, SEC Rethinks Day Trading Rules

Today’s stack:
🏦 FIS gets acquisitive — buying Amount to modernize digital onboarding.
🎮 Coinbase invests — partnering with Sony & Samsung to bring sta…

1 year ago

Fintech Soap Operas, Bitcoin Loot Boxes, and Tether’s $500B Flex

Today’s Fintech Stacks is a triple feature of money drama:
🕺 Future Fintech ($FTFT) swaps leadership and dilutes shareholders in a small-cap soap oper…

1 year ago

FinWise Breach Fallout, Mastercard’s Fintech Talent Show, Rocket’s Debt Cleanup

In this episode of Fintech Stacks, we cover three major fintech stories shaping the markets:

FinWise Bancorp (FINW) faces an insider data breach impac…

1 year ago