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Crypto's biggest conversations for late 2026 — mapped out. From Seoul to Vegas, here's where the industry is heading next. At Capitalist, we move with it — supporting BTC, ETH, and USDT alongside multi-currency accounts.

Crypto's biggest conversations for late 2026 — mapped out. From Seoul to Vegas, here's where the industry is heading next. At Capitalist, we move with it — supporting BTC, ETH, and USDT alongside multi-currency accounts.

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💸 Payments consolidation, banking-charter ambitions, and stablecoin infrastructure moving further into mainstream card networks — here's what mattered this week. ⏩ 1. Mollie and GoCardless merge into Europe's leading payments partner Payments consolidation moved from theory to closed deal, with Mollie and GoCardless combining to create what they call Europe's leading payments and financial services partner. ⏩ 2. Visa pairs stablecoin cards with onchain lending Visa is integrating blockchain lending with VisaNet settlement data to offer working capital financing for fintechs and stablecoin-linked card programs — network volume on this front has grown nearly 200% year over year. ⏩ 3. TabaPay raises $155M to fund banking-charter ambitions TabaPay closed $155M in strategic growth financing while announcing a planned acquisition of Transact Bank, aiming to convert capital into owned banking infrastructure. ⏩ 4. DBS and Citi test Swift's new ledger to remove banking-hours limits on cross-border payments DBS and Citi are piloting Swift's new shared ledger to see whether cross-border payments can move outside traditional banking-hour constraints — one of the oldest bottlenecks in international settlement. ⏩ 5. Global fintech investment hits four-year high Fintech investment is up 85% in the Americas and 43% globally in H1 2026 versus H2 2025, with $103B in hard-dollar investment worldwide — putting the sector on track for its strongest funding year in four years. #digest

This year, Capitalist celebrates its 12th anniversary But back in 2014 when it was founded the world was busy with completely different things. Swipe through for the highlights 👉 Tell us what you did back in 2014 in the comments!

Some of them write. Some of them build. All of them shape how the rest of the fintech industry thinks 🟢 Here's who's actually worth your feed space.

⚡ Big consolidation moves across MENA, a major US banking breakthrough for one of the world's fastest-growing digital banks, and a widening gap in Asia's cross-border payment speed — here's what mattered this week. ⏩ 1. Revolut wins conditional approval for a US banking license Revolut received conditional approval from the US OCC, moving closer to launching as a national bank and eventually offering loans, credit cards, and insured deposits in the US. ⏩ 2. PayTabs acquires Amazon Payment Services' MENA business Saudi fintech PayTabs is buying Amazon's Middle East payments arm for over $100M, creating a combined platform processing more than $40B in annual transactions. ⏩ 3. Chainlink and Bottomline bring on-chain settlement to 600+ banks Bottomline, a top-3 SWIFT provider handling $16 trillion a year, partnered with Chainlink to let banks settle cross-border transactions on-chain — using existing SWIFT and ISO 20022 messaging. ⏩ 4. Alaan gets in-principle approval from the UAE Central Bank The Middle East's largest expense management platform received preliminary approval for SVF and RPS licenses from the CBUAE, clearing the path to hold funds and process cross-border payments. ⏩ 5. Asia's cross-border payment speed gap keeps widening Domestic ASEAN payments clear in seconds, but cross-border settlement is slowing: only 35.4% of transactions arrived within an hour in 2025, short of the G20's 75% target for 2027. #digest

💬 Sometimes the best product decisions don't start in a meeting room — they start with one person, one card, and one really good experience. Here's how a Capitalist client went from using their personal card for international purchases to running their entire company's payments through it.

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⏳ Walmart just broke a decade-long standoff with mobile wallets, Revolut entered the stablecoin race, and Mastercard sealed a major crypto infrastructure deal. Here's what mattered in fintech, stablecoins, and ad tech this week. ⏩ 1. Walmart finally accepts Apple Pay and Google Pay Walmart began accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay at select US stores — ending a holdout that dates back to 2016, when it backed the now-defunct CurrentC consortium. A full US store and Sam's Club rollout is planned by the end of 2026. ⏩ 2. Revolut launches its first stablecoin, EURR Revolut began a phased rollout of EURR, a euro-pegged token issued under MiCA through Bridge's Luxembourg e-money institution. It's currently available to eligible customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal, with wider EEA availability planned later this year. ⏩ 3. Mastercard completes its BVNK acquisition Mastercard finalized its takeover of BVNK, bringing one of crypto's most established stablecoin infrastructure providers directly into a global payments network spanning hundreds of millions of acceptance points. ⏩ 4. Coinbase brings tokenized US stocks on-chain Coinbase launched tokenized US stocks — starting with Apple, Nvidia, Meta, and Alphabet — natively on Base, its Ethereum layer-2 network, for eligible users outside the US. ⏩ 5. X opens ad data to AI assistants X launched an Ads Model Context Protocol server, letting advertisers connect campaign data to AI systems like Grok and Claude and query performance using natural language. It's part of a broader wave of platforms — including Meta, Google, and Threads — adding AI-driven ad analysis tools this month. ⏩ 6. Stablecoin card spending triples past $1 billion Consumer spending on stablecoin-linked cards has tripled to over $1 billion, signaling growing everyday use of stablecoins beyond trading and DeFi. #digest

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