With 20+ years in banking, finance, and Fintech, I've done a little bit of everything. Some of the things I saw made me get a little Ranty, hence this newsletter.
Nov 10, 2026
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4 min read
Ft. Pedro Arnt (dLocal)
Nov 5, 2026
11 min read
Plus Washington’s crypto reset and Wall Street’s push toward 24/7
Nov 3, 2026
5 min read
Ft. Charlie You (RWA.xyz) and Chuk Okpalugo (Stablecoin Blueprint)
Oct 29, 2026
8 min read
AND HSBC puts its own stablecoin inside PayMe
Oct 27, 2026
Ft. Noah Levine (Andreessen Horowitz), Cameron Drinkwater (S&P Dow Jones Indices) and Liam Horne (Tempo)
Oct 22, 2026
6 min read
Plus JPM Coin on Ethereum, Coinbase and Marqeta's stablecoin cards, and Visa and Mesh's crypto spending for 175 million merchants
Oct 20, 2026
Ft. Manuel Godoy (Félix) and Jacquelyn Melinek (StrataMedia)
Oct 15, 2026
Plus Mastercard and BVNK, USDC in the EU, and Citi and Wells Fargo on tokenized deposits
Oct 13, 2026
Ft. Nassim Eddequiouaq (Bastion), Greg Bricca (Morse) and Paul-Adrien Hyppolite (Spiko)
Oct 8, 2026
9 min read
Plus Rain and Modern Treasury Seek Trust Banks as ICBA Sues the OCC
Oct 6, 2026
Ft. Christian Catalini (MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab)
Oct 1, 2026
10 min read
And Lloyds tests USDC settlement with Visa
Sep 29, 2026
Ft. Nick van Eck (Agora) & Shivani Siroya (Tala)
Sep 24, 2026
AND ECB's Pontes Is Live
Sep 22, 2026
Ft. Nikhil Chandhok (Circle) and Simone Maini (Elliptic)
Sep 17, 2026
AND Circle’s Arc Mainnet Goes Live With Wall Street Validators
Sep 15, 2026
Ft. Cyril Mathew (Latitude) and Matt Marcus (Modern Treasury)
Sep 10, 2026
AND Singapore's Big Three go live on Swift's tokenized deposit ledger
Sep 8, 2026
7 min read
Ft. Ada Vaughan (Stellar) and Darko Hajdukovic (London Stock Exchange)
Sep 3, 2026
14 min read
AND 21 Banks Back a Shared Stablecoin with No CEO Yet
Sep 1, 2026
Ft. Thomas Cowan (Bullish) and Hannah Arnold (Turnkey)
Aug 27, 2026
13 min read
Coinbase Takes Tokenized Stocks Into 24/7 DeFi
Aug 25, 2026
Ft. Anna Wroblewska (Dinari) and Ferdinand Dabitz (Augustus)
Aug 20, 2026
Visa and Mastercard Join Rain to Shape Agentic Payments
Aug 18, 2026
Ft. Luca Prosperi (M0) and Ryan Bozarth (Dakota)
