Fintech Wrap Up

Fintech Wrap Up

Deep Dive: The AI Model Gateway/Router Directory For Fintechs and Banks
Stripe just acquired OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, roughly five times the valuation OpenRouter carried three months ago.
 • Sam Boboev
Why Banks Spend $60 Billion a Year on Core Banking - Martin Della Chiesa, (CEO,Skaleet)
Banks spend more than $60 billion a year on core banking, yet much of the industry still runs on decades-old technology.
 • Sam Boboev
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Reports: Non-banks are winning business banking; AI in Index in Banks - LATAM; The next era of commerce will be won on payments intelligence
This week’s reports focus on how AI, data, and new financial infrastructure are reshaping banking and commerce.
 • Sam Boboev
Deep Dive: The US Expense/Spend Management Companies Directory
I built a structural map of the US spend management category because the space has quietly split into distinct business models that get lumped together…
 • Sam Boboev
Can Stablecoins Really Compete With Visa and Mastercard? - Jess Houlgrave (CEO, WalletConnect)
Why would someone pay with stablecoins when they already have a Visa or Mastercard?
 • Sam Boboev
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Reports: Defining Agentic Global Payments; The global expansion of stablecoins; China’s Central Bank Digital Currency 2.0
The reports highlight major shifts across fintech, with AI governance, tokenisation, stablecoins, CBDCs and agentic payments moving from experimentation…
 • Sam Boboev
Deep Dive: Engineering the Agentic Control Orchestration in Banking
Banks often fail to derive meaningful value from AI because they tend to layer sophisticated automation on top of rigid, inefficient legacy workflows.
 • Sam Boboev
The Stablecoin Stack Every Fintech Will Eventually Build - Bentzi Rabi (CEO, Utila)
Stablecoins are getting all the attention.
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Reports: Agentic Payments from the Ground Up; Building An AI-Ready Finance Function; Agentic Commerce: Who Gets To Transact
This week’s reports explore how AI agents are reshaping finance and commerce.
 • Sam Boboev
Deep Dive: The EU and UK Expense/Spend Management Companies Directory
I built a structural map of the spend management category because the space has quietly split into distinct business models that get lumped together…
 • Sam Boboev

July 2026

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