FinTekCafe Weekly: The Asset You Cannot Rent

This week: the AI moat you cannot rent, an agent readiness maturity model, cloud repatriation math, and what payments become when the buyer is an AI.

FinTekCafe Weekly: The Layer in the Middle

This week: the guardrail layer LLM features are missing, a production AI reference architecture, who profits in BaaS, and why prompt engineering died.

FinTekCafe Weekly: The Bill You Are Not Measuring

This week: testing LLM outputs before they fail, the real cost of model lock-in, lakehouse vs warehouse, why AI breaks FinOps, pay-by-bank, and real-time treasury.

FinTekCafe Weekly: When Bigger Stops Winning

This week: when small models beat frontier ones, the coming GPU glut, why banks build their own rails, fraud in milliseconds, and the AI coding wall.

FinTekCafe Weekly: The Year AI Got Repriced

This week: which AI agents actually ship, the coming ML salary correction, shadow AI out of control, stablecoins as bank rails, and embedded finance.

FinTekCafe Weekly: The Hidden Costs Hiding in Plain Sight

This week: the LLM bill nobody budgeted for, BNPL hits the bureaus, US open banking goes live, Postgres everywhere, and RAG vs fine-tuning.

FinTekCafe Weekly: RAG Architecture, FedNow Friction, and Why Agent Frameworks Keep Breaking

This week: RAG architecture and costs, service mesh in 2026, ISO 20022 stack impact, plus three Pro pieces on FedNow, AI agent frameworks, and confidential computing.

FinTekCafe Weekly: Vector Search, Knowledge Graphs, and Why Treasury AI Pilots Stall

This week: vector search and embeddings explained, real-time cross-border payments, edge computing in finance, plus three Pro deep-dives on knowledge graphs, treasury AI, and the Series B repricing.

FinTekCafe Weekly: AI Evals, the Embedded Finance Stall, and the End of the Table-Format War

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.

FinTekCafe Weekly: The Stablecoin Endgame, Per-Seat Pricing Breaking, and Why Most IDPs Fail

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.

FinTekCafe Weekly: Your RAG System Is Lying to You (And Three Other Uncomfortable Truths)