Sitemap - 2026 - Fintech Wrap Up

Reports: Digital Wallets: A New Paradigm; Public Blockchains and Regulated Financial Institutions; The vision for account-to-account payments in Australia

Deep Dive: How to Add Data Intelligence to a Multi-PSP Payment Stack

The Real Reason Banks Aren't Seeing Results From AI - Charbel Safadi (CEO, Zafin)

Reports: How Acquirers Prepare for Agentic Commerce; Treasury 2.0: Built for a new era; Agentic commerce: The rise of the delegated buyer

Deep Dive: A Definitive Strategic Guide to MiCA Compliance and Institutional Market Architecture

AI Agents Are About to Change Payments Operations - David Rosa (General Manager, Rapyd)

Reports: Blockchain-Enabled & Stablecoin Banking; The strategic role of stablecoins and tokenization for Canadian institutions; Project Agorá

Deep Dive: Open USD vs Tether and Circle, and Bank Tokenized Deposits

The stablecoin neobank challenging Revolut - Raagulan Pathy (CEO, KAST)

Reports: How Digital Assets Are Reshaping the Foundations of Finance; Digital Money – a perspective on stablecoins, tokenised deposits, and CBDCs; Digital Assets

Deep Dive: The Directory of US Card Issuing and Program Management Platforms

Why payments infrastructure is a moat, not a commodity - Myles Stephenson (Founder and CEO, Modulr)

Reports: The B2B Embedded Finance Landscape; The Thunes Cross-Border Payments Interoperability Index; Agentic Commerce: Market Insights & Outlook

Deep Dive: Adyen’s Agentic a universal translator for agentic commerce

Why Stripe bet on AI agents and stablecoins - Neetika Bansal, (Business Lead, Stripe)

Reports: The $400T Future of Tokenised Assets; Mapping the Top 100 Stablecoins and Their Future; State of AI in FinTech

Deep Dive: Tokenized Money Validates the Need for Unified Bank OS Infrastructure

AI just killed your banking career or gave it a second life - Tim Rutten (CMO, Backbase)

Reports: Tokenization 2030; The Race for Frictionless Machine Payments; The emerging architecture of on-chain money

Deep-Dive: The Directory Of The UK and European Card Issuing and Program Management Platforms

Why Adyen, Stripe, and PayPal still can't fix global payments - Davi Strazza (CBO, Lightspark)

Reports: Beyond Concentration: Where Non-USD Stablecoins Can Scale; Stablecoin Strategy for Asia 2026; Global Banking Annual Review 2026

Deep Dive: Inside Wise’s Products, Licenses, Rails, and the Technology Stack

Banks are about to lose their monopoly on money - Keith Grose (Coinbase, UK CEO)

Reports: Card issuing in 1,000 words; Banking in the tokenized economy; Three Types of Digital Money

Deep Dive: Structural Analysis of Visa’s Value-Added Services

Banks are still fighting AI fraud with yesterday’s playbook - Tyler Allen (CEO, Unit21)

Reports: Blockchain for banks; 2026 Global AI in Financial Services Report; The new stack for global finance: Stablecoins edition

Deep Dive: Ant International’s Multi-Product Commerce Infrastructure

Why every company will launch its own stablecoin - Sam Broner (CEO, The Better Money Company)

Reports: Five startup opportunities in stablecoins; The next age of fintech; Asset Tokenization in Financial Markets

Deep Dive: The 2026 Directory of Stablecoin Card Program Enablers

The real reason cross-border payments stay expensive - David Messenger (CEO of Global Businesses, Pingpong Payments)

Report: AI in banking; Next-Gen Acquiring Processing; Stablecoins could reshape Africa’s digital payments landscape

Deep Dive: The Transaction Foundation Models

Agentic commerce won’t start with shopping - Noah Levine, (Partner, a16z)

Reports: Stablecoin Payments Infrastructure; Technology Trends Redefining Banking; The Agentic Banking Blueprint

Deep Dive: The Emergence of the Bank Operating System

What most fintechs get wrong about scale - Shannon Scott (CPO, Airwallex)

Reports: The Know-Your-Customer Agentic AI Revolution; The Definitive Stablecoin Landscape Series; The Shift to Agentic Payments

Deep Dive: The Ultimate Directory of Agentic Commerce and Payment Protocols / Tools

AI will control your payments sooner than you think - Bunita Sawhney (CPO, Mastercard)

Reports: Let's dive into 9 fintech predictions in 2026; From Click to Command: The Shift to Agentic Payments; The Agentic AI Advantage: Finance agents that move the numbers

Deep Dive: An Analytical Breakdown of Revolut’s 2025 Performance

Michael Tannenbaum (CEO, Figure): Most tokenization projects are solving the wrong problem

What is Ramp actually building?; How Institutional Tokenization Is Actually Structured Today; What is actually driving fintech adoption in the Middle East right now?

Deep Dive: The Machine Payments Protocol

Marc Boiron (CEO, Polygon Labs): Payments Will Define Blockchain’s Future

Digital Commerce Payment Platforms; Not All Rails or Stablecoins are Equal; Fiat-to-crypto infrastructure is not a payments problem

Deep Dive: The hidden liability of agentic commerce

John Caplan (CEO, Payoneer): Cross-Border Payments Are Still Broken

The stablecoin infrastructure framework; Neobank Market Map by Artemis; European Banks Prepare for Tokenized Finance

Deep Dive: Agentic AI in Financial Crime Fighting

Ben Winter (COO, Stuut): AI Coworkers in Finance

Understanding BNPL Landscape & Credit Dynamics; Neobanks entering new markets will poach consumer deposits from banks; The Agentic Commerce Market Map by Artemis

Deep Dive: Mastercard Verifiable Intent vs Visa Trusted Agent Protocol

Revolut eyes $100bn valuation with fresh share sale; Understanding Agentic Payments; Stripe vs Adyen

Deep Dive: How Fintech Block Is Replacing Processes and People with Agents

Georgios Kolovos (Fintech Lead, Nvidia): Inside NVIDIA’s Vision for AI in Payments

What is a payment gateway?; Singapore payments landscape; The Hidden Risk of Agentic Commerce for Merchants

Deep Dive: Why Fintechs and Crypto Companies Want US Bank Charters

Matt Marcus and Sam Aarons: The New Infrastructure for Instant, Multi-Rail Payments

UK Fintech Unicorns: What the Multiples Are Telling Us; Mastercard Q4 FY 2025 Results; Agentic Commerce Market Tracker

Deep Dive: How Zelle Scaled to $1.2 Trillion by Embedding Into Banking

Ruston Miles: What Agentic Commerce Actually Means 2026

Visa Q1 FY26 Results; The Architecture of the Onchain Bank; Overview of Roles in the Cards Ecosystem

Deep Dive: JPMorgan’s Payments Strategy and Systems-Level Integration Analysis

How Fintechs Should Approach Stablecoins in 2026; Comparison of successful digital payments systems; Paypal's Strategy Map

Deep Dive: Citi’s Strategy to Dominate Institutional Payments

Andrew Helms: How SumUp Takes on Square and Clover in the US Payments Market

Visa's strategy map is not about payments; Five essential uses of agentic AI in banking; Three Layers of Crypto Card Infrastructure

Deep Dive: Global Payments' Merchant Solutions Strategy

Why AI Fails in Banks; Examining Card Issuing Value Chains in the UK; Agentic Payments Impact on the Pass-through Payment Model

Deep Dive: Unwrapping FIS’s Technology Stack and Architecture

Janelle Sallenave (COO, Chime): How Chime Uses AI to Transform Customer Experience

What's underneath Visa Direct?; Retail banking AI readiness index; KYC in an Agentic Architecture

Deep Dive: Breaking Down Shopify and Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol

Real banking use cases by Agentic AI; Understanding How "Wise Platform" Powering Banks and Enterprises; The architecture of orchestrated mulitagent systems in banking

Deep Dive: Inside Circle’s Payments Network

Fintech Is Cool Again? AI, Funding Cycles, and What Investors Want in 2026

JPMorgan Strategy Breakdown; JPMorgan's Real Advantage Is Platform Compounding; How Agentic Commerce Reshapes the Online Travel Agent (OTA) Merchant of Record Model

Deep Dive: Mastercard’s Value-Added Services & Solutions