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Big week in fintech. A £10B neobank megadeal, a $350M exchange hack, and tokenized stocks inching closer to Wall Street — here's what mattered September 21–27. 1. Nubank eyes £10 billion buyout of Monzo Brazilian neobank giant Nubank is reportedly in talks to acquire UK favorite Monzo for roughly £10 billion, according to Sky News. If it closes, the deal would merge two of the world's most prominent digital banks and mark one of the biggest consolidation moves in global fintech history. 2. Binance buys $100 million stake in Circle The world's largest crypto exchange is deepening ties with the issuer of USDC, expanding an existing partnership as stablecoins become central to both companies' strategies. 3. Bitget hacked for roughly $350 million The crypto exchange confirmed a major breach, reviving concerns about security across the industry even as stablecoin adoption accelerates elsewhere. 4. NYSE and Blockchain.com explore selling tokenized stocks The exchange operator is in talks with Blockchain.com about issuing tokenized versions of listed equities, another sign traditional markets are moving toward round-the-clock, blockchain-based trading. 5. DriveWealth security incident exposes Revolut, Stake and Hatch customer data A breach at brokerage infrastructure provider DriveWealth compromised customer data belonging to multiple fintech clients, including Revolut, highlighting how vulnerable shared backend providers can leave an entire ecosystem of consumer apps. #digest

A decade ago, stablecoins were a shaky experiment nobody trusted with real money. Today they're a $300B+ market moving billions across borders every day. That's exactly the problem Capitalist was built to solve: moving money fast, without the banking system in the way.

From a two-bedroom apartment to the world's biggest hedge fund In 1975, Ray Dalio started Bridgewater Associates out of his NYC apartment — today it's managed as much as $160 billion and became the largest hedge fund on the planet. Swipe to see the principles behind his rise 👉 The same discipline that built an empire starts with getting the fundamentals right — including how your business handles money. That's where Capitalist comes in.

Offboarding matters more than you think When someone with access to company finances leaves the team, their access needs to disappear the same day — not "eventually." We've seen what happens when it doesn't.

A former employee once still had login credentials to a company's Capitalist account — no verification method, but enough to give it a try. He asked our support team to reset the account's 2FA, hoping to set it up his own way and move funds out. Our team caught the mismatch, verified with the real owner, and shut it down before any damage was done.

That case ended well. Not every company gets that same safety net. Financial access is easy to overlook in an offboarding checklist, buried under laptop returns and exit interviews. But if a role touches company funds or payment platforms, offboarding isn't complete until that access is fully revoked — same day, no exceptions. Capitalist — protecting your funds since 2014.

💸 This week: a big court ruling against Google's ad tech, a legal precedent against Meta in Europe, and stablecoins keep growing fast. ⏩1. Google must open up its ad tech, but avoids a breakup A federal judge ordered Google to stop giving its own ad exchange special bidding advantages and let competitors in — but didn't force it to sell off any part of its ads business. ⏩2. Meta ruled liable for fake ads in Germany A German court said Meta must remove fraudulent ads faster and share what it earned from them — a new legal precedent for how platforms handle scam ads in Europe. ⏩3. Taboola buys finance-focused adtech firm Dianomi for $25.4M The deal gives Taboola access to premium finance publishers like The Wall Street Journal and Reuters, as it pushes further into advertising outside Google and Meta. ⏩4. Stablecoin supply hits $303B A new report shows stablecoin supply reached $303 billion in August, with Tether and Circle controlling most of the market — payment volume for 2026 so far is already in the hundreds of billions. ⏩5. JPMorgan and Tether disagree on stablecoin demand JPMorgan said big institutions aren't rushing into stablecoins yet. Tether's CEO pushed back publicly — a small sign of the bigger tension between banks and stablecoin issuers. Explore international payments in 100+ GEOs with Capitalist #digest

Capitalist is heading to TES! Our team will be at TES Affiliate Conference this year — find us at booth D2. Whether you want to talk payouts or how we help move money across 100+ GEOs, or you just want to grab some merch and say hi — we'd love to meet you. Ready to schedule a meeting? DM us! Jon Anna Irina And see you in Prague!

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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