Fintech Highlights — Banks Draw the Line on AI Agents
Banks are blocking unauthorized AI agents, identity providers are building delegated access, and financial infrastructure keeps consolidating around them.
Fintech Highlights — Who Owns the Financial Operating Layer?
Banks are funding shared infrastructure, AI agents are entering real financial workflows, and tokenized money is becoming practical financial plumbing.
Fintech Highlights — Banks Buy Fintech. Who Banks the AI Agent?
Valley National buys Bluevine as financial AI moves beyond copilots toward agents that need accounts, permissions, spending limits, monitoring and controls.
Fintech Highlights - 9/29/2026
AI agents move deeper into banking, lending and insurance, while tokenized stocks, stablecoins and major fintech deals reshape financial services.
Fintech Highlights - 9/22/2026
AI is moving from pilot projects into real financial-services workflows — from fraud and lending to mortgage sales, insurance and employee-built agents.
Fintech Highlights - 9/16/2026
Chime buys the bank behind its banking platform, AI moves deeper into financial services, and payments, lending and wealth technology keep evolving. Here’s what caught our attention this week across banking, fintech, insurance and investing.
Fintech Highlights - 9/8/2026
Stripe and Advent abandon their PayPal bid. Stripe’s AI-marketplace expansion continues independently. BitGo acquires NYDIG’s institutional trading business. And more...
Fintech Highlights - 9/3/2026
This week’s signals point to financial services becoming more integrated, more specialized and increasingly infrastructure-driven.
Fintech Highlights — August 2026
A look back at the fintech stories, deals, and IPOs that stood out this month.
Fintech Highlights — July 2026
A look back at the fintech stories, deals, and IPOs that stood out this month.
Fintech Highlights — June 2026
A look back at the fintech stories, deals, and IPOs that stood out this month.
Fintech Highlights — May 2026
A look back at the fintech stories, deals, and IPOs that stood out this month.