Weekly fintech digests from the FinTekCafe archives.
This week: AI evals, the embedded finance stall, vector DBs and pgvector, the AI capex bubble, FedNow adoption, and why the Iceberg vs Delta vs Hudi war is over.
This week: agentic AI tiers, the bank tokenized-deposit pivot, when service mesh actually pays off, AI pricing breaking per-seat, ISO 20022, and why most IDPs fail.
This week: why most platform companies are just vendors, the true cost of AI infrastructure, DORA enforcement, data lakehouses, VC economics, and prompt engineering.
Plus: the CTO playbook that actually works, why your cloud bill is 40% too high, and a 30-day enterprise software framework.
PayPal Zettles ‘Commerce In Box’ for SMB. US Job numbers look good. JP Morgan makes more inroads into fintech through acquisition.
Visa buys Tink for $2B.Review of Visa's failed acquisition attempt of plaid. New U.S tech regulations bills are in motion. Housing prices continues to rise in the U.S. Fintech Crypto startups to get boost from V.C funds.
AmEx provides new checking account feature.Learn about small business banking needs . Stripe launches new identity verification platform. New antitrust lawsuit on Visa and MasterCard. How were recent ransomware bitcoins recovered ?
Learn about antitrust regulation from economic and market perspective. Google settles antitrust suites in EU on default search engine options for android smart phones ,and in France related to its AD practices. Inflation continues to rise in latest CPI numbers.
What is DeFI? DeFI leads to cryptocurrency volatility. Will EPI use Russia's Mir Playbook to break MasterCard and Visa domination in Europe? U.S May jobs numbers are out,they were better but not great.
Learn about recent Ransomware attacks and some mitigation steps that companies can follow. Square in works to launch merchant saving and checking account. Klarna faces a account security issue.
U.S retail companies announce earnings (Walmart,Target and Home Depot). more about the bitcoin crash this week.
Inflation Scare?. Google pay supports transfer of money to India and Singapore from U.S. Tesla backs out of Bitcoin for car purchase. Facebook DIEM updates. updates on new round of fintech venture funding
PayPal and Square earnings report. U.S April job numbers. Bill.com acquires Divvy. WhatsApp payment to start in Brazil. Tala and Visa partnership on cryptocurrency.eBay NFT plans.
Big tech companies report quarterly earnings. New Features in Google Pay. MasterCard and Visa earnings report. Stripe buys Taxjar
Below are news related to fintech industry this week. General News. * Square (NYSE: SQ) announced Q4 results earlier this week.Net Income of $294 Million, a
Below are news related to fintech industry this week. General News. * Goldman Sachs launches Marcus Invest-a fully digital investment management service aimed at the mass market;
Below are news related to fintech industry this week. General News Robinhood, online no fee based stock broker, is facing scrutiny from Congress and regulators over
Venture Capital Investing app Stash raises $125M Stock trading app Stash raised $125M and is planning to use the new round of funding to add new
Below are news related to fintech industry this week. New US nominations * Janet Yellen, Professor Emeritus of U.C Berkeley, becomes the first woman to serve
Below are some of the top news from fintech industry this week. Walmart moves into Fintech. Walmart announced that it is partnering with leading financial technology
Fintech Venture Deals this week. 1) Greenlight Financial Technology,Head quartered in Atlanta ,GA $215 million in latest round of funding with valuation of $1.2
