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.
Sep 24, 2026
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10 min read
AND ECB's Pontes Is Live
Sep 22, 2026
5 min read
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
11 min read
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
6 min read
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
8 min read
Ft. Luca Prosperi (M0) and Ryan Bozarth (Dakota)
Aug 13, 2026
And Rain Adds Merchant Balances to Its Card Stack
Aug 11, 2026
Ft. Natalya Thakur (Knova) and TuongVy Le (Veda)
Aug 6, 2026
AND BlackRock Turns a Collateral Trade Into a Permanent Product
Aug 4, 2026
Ft. Rob Hadick (Dragonfly), Stephen Sikes (Public) and Ethan Chan (Allium)
Jul 30, 2026
9 min read
Plus, Project Agorá Tests How Global Banks Could Settle Around the Clock
Jul 28, 2026
Ft. Luke Tuttle (MoneyGram), Charles Yoo-Naut (Rain) and Darko Hajdukovic (LSEG)
Jul 23, 2026
AND CLARITY Still Lacks the Votes, as Marqeta Brings Stablecoin Cards to Its Issuing Base
Jul 21, 2026
Ft. Noah Levine (a16z), Didier Lavallee (Tetra Digital Group) and Eric Queathem (Velocity)
Jul 16, 2026
AND Circle Wins Final OCC Approval for Its National Trust Bank
Jul 14, 2026
Ft. Paul Faecks (Plasma) and Guillermo Goncalvez (El Dorado)
Jul 9, 2026
AND Three G-SIBs Pull Stablecoins Into the Bank Relationship
Jul 7, 2026
Ft. Stephen Richardson (Fireblocks) and Ido Ben-Natan (Blockaid)
Jul 5, 2026
3 min read
Robinhood Chain goes mainnet, Earn ships 7% on USDG with Lloyd's insurance, and 27 million accounts get a door into DeFi
