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The CFTC has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to create federal rules for cryptocurrency exchanges after Congress failed to pass the Clarity Act. The agency is considering two connected regulatory frameworks for digital asset markets.
11:57 AMPYMNTS
Experian has launched the Experian Cashflow Data Bureau, a consumer reporting agency that lets financial institutions use consumer-permissioned cash flow data in underwriting. The bureau operates under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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Plaid has introduced AI models aimed at helping financial firms improve lending decisions, detect fraud and assess payment risk. The tools use financial data to support decisions across credit and payments.
4:40 PMFinextra
Plaid is adding AI models to help financial firms make decisions across credit, fraud and payments. Its Instant Link model lets eligible consumers share cash flow information with lenders, giving underwriting systems access to transaction-based financial data.
9:00 AMPYMNTSStablecoin payments infrastructure company Rain has applied to the OCC to establish Rain National Trust Bank, headquartered in New York.
2:01 PMFinextra
Singapore is seeking distance from Hyperliquid Labs, a homegrown crypto company behind the popular perpetual futures contracts known as perps. The products have drawn scrutiny because they let traders take highly leveraged positions without owning the underlying assets.
5:00 PMFinancial Times
Erebor, a startup bank founded by Palmer Luckey to serve technology companies, has attracted more than $7 billion in deposits since launching. The bank is positioning itself as a successor to some of the services lost after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.
11:32 AMFinancial Times
Anchorage Digital has acquired Routable, a payments company that helps businesses onboard payees, automate compliance and manage high-volume global payouts. The acquisition is intended to connect Anchorage's digital-asset rails with fiat payment infrastructure.
3:41 PMPYMNTS
Kalshi has launched perpetual futures linked to its US 500 index, allowing traders to maintain long or short positions without periodically rolling contracts. The product gives users another way to seek exposure to broad US equity performance.
3:42 PMEconomic TimesSummary
The CFTC has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to create federal rules for cryptocurrency exchanges after Congress failed to pass the Clarity Act. The agency is considering two connected regulatory frameworks for digital asset markets.
The CFTC is moving to fill a legislative gap through agency rulemaking, though the process
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Regulatory authority is shifting from a stalled congressional process to an agency-led effort that could reshape how U.S. crypto markets operate.
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Experian has launched the Experian Cashflow Data Bureau, a consumer reporting agency that lets financial institutions use consumer-permissioned cash flow data in underwriting. The bureau operates under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Experian is formalizing bank-account cash flow as a regulated credit signal, extending underwriting beyond traditional
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Cash flow data is moving from an optional fintech input into a formal part of the credit reporting system.
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Plaid has introduced AI models aimed at helping financial firms improve lending decisions, detect fraud and assess payment risk. The tools use financial data to support decisions across credit and payments.
Plaid is moving beyond data connectivity into decision infrastructure, putting its transaction-level data closer to
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The launch expands the competitive fight from financial data access to the automated decisions built on top of it.
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Plaid is adding AI models to help financial firms make decisions across credit, fraud and payments. Its Instant Link model lets eligible consumers share cash flow information with lenders, giving underwriting systems access to transaction-based financial data.
Cash flow data gives lenders another way to assess applicants who lack strong traditional credit
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The expansion turns open financial data into a more direct source of lending and fraud decisions.
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Stablecoin payments infrastructure company Rain has applied to the OCC to establish Rain National Trust Bank, headquartered in New York.
Rain is seeking a regulated banking structure for its stablecoin business, potentially bringing custody and
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Digital asset firms are pursuing bank charters to integrate stablecoin services more directly into the regulated financial system.
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Singapore is seeking distance from Hyperliquid Labs, a homegrown crypto company behind the popular perpetual futures contracts known as perps. The products have drawn scrutiny because they let traders take highly leveraged positions without owning the underlying assets.
Singapore's effort to separate itself from Hyperliquid reflects a sharper regulatory tradeoff: crypto activity can
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The dispute tests whether Singapore can host crypto innovation without importing the reputational and systemic risks of leveraged trading.
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Erebor, a startup bank founded by Palmer Luckey to serve technology companies, has attracted more than $7 billion in deposits since launching. The bank is positioning itself as a successor to some of the services lost after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.
The deposit total shows that technology companies still want a specialized banking relationship, despite the
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Erebor’s growth could reshape technology banking while testing whether a new specialist lender can avoid the risks that brought down SVB.
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Anchorage Digital has acquired Routable, a payments company that helps businesses onboard payees, automate compliance and manage high-volume global payouts. The acquisition is intended to connect Anchorage's digital-asset rails with fiat payment infrastructure.
Anchorage is targeting the operational layer that large companies need before they can use stablecoins
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The acquisition addresses the back-office friction that has kept stablecoins from becoming routine tools for corporate payments.
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Kalshi has launched perpetual futures linked to its US 500 index, allowing traders to maintain long or short positions without periodically rolling contracts. The product gives users another way to seek exposure to broad US equity performance.
The contract pushes Kalshi closer to the structure of a conventional financial exchange, extending beyond
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Kalshi is broadening its business model by competing for trading activity that traditionally flows through futures and brokerage platforms.
A curated list of other prominent stories from this day.
Auto dealers are connecting payments and banking functions directly to dealer management systems, which already hold customer balances, repair orders, invoices and accounting records. Tekion, Increase and Core Bank are among the companies building tighter links between dealership software and financial services.
7:02 PMPYMNTS
Stripe and FedEx Dataworks plan to combine Stripe's financial platform with FedEx supply-chain data to expand financing access for small and medium-sized businesses. The joint solution is expected to launch in 2027.
4:32 PMPYMNTSThe article examines why payment infrastructure in the Caribbean, with a focus on the Dominican Republic, must account for how services reach end users. The available information does not specify the article's detailed proposals or conclusions.
4:16 PMFinextra
Research from the Federal Reserve and PYMNTS Intelligence suggests that stablecoins have gained regulatory clarity, institutional support and infrastructure without generating comparable mainstream demand. The gap is adoption by businesses and consumers, not simply the availability of the technology.
3:20 PMPYMNTSOKX has secured strategic investment from Circle, QRT, Ripple and Standard Chartered's SC Ventures at a $25 billion valuation.
2:02 PMFinextraThe article argues that business-to-business payments remain inadequate because companies need more than the ability to send and receive funds.
12:51 PMFinextra
Wealthfront has expanded its mortgage business into Washington state. The digital lender says its mortgage rates are about 50 basis points below the national average.
12:30 PMHousing WireWells Fargo has added Mobile Card Design Studio to its mobile app, allowing customers to personalize eligible debit cards directly from their phones.
12:05 PMFinextra
Many consumers lack sufficient recent credit activity to produce a usable credit score, leaving lenders with an incomplete view of their repayment risk. Alternative data and broader underwriting signals could help identify creditworthy borrowers among thin-file and subprime consumers.
11:32 AMPYMNTSEdge Markets is building infrastructure for institutional trading on prediction markets that operate around the clock. Its platform aims to reduce the risk that margin calls force traders to liquidate positions during volatile periods.
11:26 AMCNBCCall Federal Credit Union has launched Mahalo Banking's Thoughtful Banking platform, adding self-service tools, stronger security and accessibility features, and a redesigned member experience.
11:26 AMFinextraLumin Digital has commercially launched Lumin Signal, a tool that shows banks and credit unions how retail and business users navigate digital banking and lets institutions act on those insights within the platform.
11:25 AMFinextraRipple and alternative investment manager Brevan Howard are expanding their relationship to include prime brokerage services. The move broadens their collaboration across traditional finance and digital assets.
11:20 AMFinextraThe discussion examines how banks can support small and medium-sized enterprises with increasingly international payment and transfer needs. It features Pratik Khowala of Mastercard's Transfer Solutions business at Sibos 2026 in Miami.
11:00 AMFinextra
Polly launched PollyOS, a platform that combines mortgage pricing and eligibility with Polly Hedge and a relaunched Loan Trading Exchange.
10:19 AMHousing Wire
Trading on Robinhood Chain briefly surged during a memecoin frenzy before volumes fell 96%. The episode adds Robinhood and Circle to the list of financial companies exposed to the rapid boom-and-bust cycle of speculative crypto assets.
9:00 AMFortune
Earnnest has named Russell Smith as CEO and Rick Altizer as vice chairman. The company says it has processed 1 million transactions and $4 billion in volume since 2019.
9:00 AMHousing Wire
Tokenization could reduce settlement delays and intermediary friction in financial markets, but the transition may remove liquidity-management mechanisms that institutions currently rely on.
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A PYMNTS Intelligence study finds that rewards should be a higher technology priority for credit unions, with 27% of consumers expressing a relevant preference in the research.
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Auto dealers are connecting payments and banking functions directly to dealer management systems, which already hold customer balances, repair orders, invoices and accounting records. Tekion, Increase and Core Bank are among the companies building tighter links between dealership software and financial services.
Dealer management software is moving from an administrative system toward a financial operating layer. That
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Embedded banking could shift economic power in auto finance and payments toward the software platforms that control dealers' daily operations.
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Stripe and FedEx Dataworks plan to combine Stripe's financial platform with FedEx supply-chain data to expand financing access for small and medium-sized businesses. The joint solution is expected to launch in 2027.
The partnership adds operational signals such as shipping activity to the data lenders can use
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Supply-chain data could become an important alternative underwriting signal for small businesses that lack conventional credit records.
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The article examines why payment infrastructure in the Caribbean, with a focus on the Dominican Republic, must account for how services reach end users. The available information does not specify the article's detailed proposals or conclusions.
The central issue is not simply whether payment rails exist, but whether consumers and businesses
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Payment modernization fails when infrastructure stops before the customer, merchant or cash-dependent community.
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Research from the Federal Reserve and PYMNTS Intelligence suggests that stablecoins have gained regulatory clarity, institutional support and infrastructure without generating comparable mainstream demand. The gap is adoption by businesses and consumers, not simply the availability of the technology.
Stablecoins have improved their supply-side conditions, but users still lack a compelling reason to replace
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More stablecoin infrastructure will not create adoption unless it solves a problem users already feel.
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OKX has secured strategic investment from Circle, QRT, Ripple and Standard Chartered's SC Ventures at a $25 billion valuation.
The investment gives OKX backing from major players across stablecoins, payments, trading and banking. It
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The deal brings deeper institutional support to one of the crypto industry's largest exchanges.
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The article argues that business-to-business payments remain inadequate because companies need more than the ability to send and receive funds.
The central shift is from payment execution to the broader workflow around approvals, reconciliation, visibility
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B2B payments remain a software and workflow problem as much as a transaction problem.
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Wealthfront has expanded its mortgage business into Washington state. The digital lender says its mortgage rates are about 50 basis points below the national average.
The expansion gives Wealthfront access to another housing market as it uses pricing to compete
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The move shows digital lenders continuing to use geographic expansion and lower pricing to challenge established mortgage providers.
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Wells Fargo has added Mobile Card Design Studio to its mobile app, allowing customers to personalize eligible debit cards directly from their phones.
Wells Fargo is turning debit cards into a more visible digital engagement channel rather than
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Large banks continue to use small personalization features to make mobile apps more competitive and habit-forming.
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Many consumers lack sufficient recent credit activity to produce a usable credit score, leaving lenders with an incomplete view of their repayment risk. Alternative data and broader underwriting signals could help identify creditworthy borrowers among thin-file and subprime consumers.
The core shift is from score-based lending toward more expansive risk assessment. That could widen
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Better underwriting could expand lending to overlooked borrowers, while raising new questions about privacy, bias and regulatory scrutiny.
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Edge Markets is building infrastructure for institutional trading on prediction markets that operate around the clock. Its platform aims to reduce the risk that margin calls force traders to liquidate positions during volatile periods.
Institutional participation will depend on better risk controls than many retail-focused prediction markets currently offer.
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Reducing forced liquidations could remove a key barrier to institutional capital entering prediction markets.
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Call Federal Credit Union has launched Mahalo Banking's Thoughtful Banking platform, adding self-service tools, stronger security and accessibility features, and a redesigned member experience.
The rollout gives Call Federal a broader digital service layer while reducing reliance on staff
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Credit unions are using modern digital platforms to compete with larger banks on convenience and security.
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Lumin Digital has commercially launched Lumin Signal, a tool that shows banks and credit unions how retail and business users navigate digital banking and lets institutions act on those insights within the platform.
Lumin is moving from providing digital banking infrastructure to helping institutions optimize user behavior inside
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Digital banking providers are competing on measurable user engagement, not just basic online functionality.
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Ripple and alternative investment manager Brevan Howard are expanding their relationship to include prime brokerage services. The move broadens their collaboration across traditional finance and digital assets.
Adding prime brokerage takes the relationship beyond a narrow blockchain partnership and toward institutional trading
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Prime brokerage would make digital assets more usable for professional investors by connecting trading activity to institutional financial infrastructure.
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The discussion examines how banks can support small and medium-sized enterprises with increasingly international payment and transfer needs. It features Pratik Khowala of Mastercard's Transfer Solutions business at Sibos 2026 in Miami.
SMEs need cross-border services that are faster, more transparent and easier to manage than traditional
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Cross-border payments are becoming a competitive battleground for banks as SMEs demand the same convenience and visibility available to larger firms.
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Polly launched PollyOS, a platform that combines mortgage pricing and eligibility with Polly Hedge and a relaunched Loan Trading Exchange.
Polly is consolidating core capital-markets workflows into one system rather than selling pricing, hedging and
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A unified workflow could make mortgage pricing and risk management faster, more connected and easier to automate.
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Trading on Robinhood Chain briefly surged during a memecoin frenzy before volumes fell 96%. The episode adds Robinhood and Circle to the list of financial companies exposed to the rapid boom-and-bust cycle of speculative crypto assets.
The collapse shows how quickly memecoin activity can inflate transaction volumes and then disappear without
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A 96% volume collapse exposes the fragility of memecoin-driven growth for crypto platforms and their partners.
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Earnnest has named Russell Smith as CEO and Rick Altizer as vice chairman. The company says it has processed 1 million transactions and $4 billion in volume since 2019.
The leadership changes come as Earnnest reaches a scale milestone in digital real estate payments.
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The appointments pair a new operating leader with a transaction base that gives Earnnest a stronger platform for scaling in real estate payments.
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Tokenization could reduce settlement delays and intermediary friction in financial markets, but the transition may remove liquidity-management mechanisms that institutions currently rely on.
The central trade-off is speed versus liquidity resilience. Faster settlement could reduce counterparty exposure, yet
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Tokenization could make markets faster while raising the cost of liquidity during stress.
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A PYMNTS Intelligence study finds that rewards should be a higher technology priority for credit unions, with 27% of consumers expressing a relevant preference in the research.
The finding puts member engagement, not just back-office modernization, on credit unions' technology agenda. Credit
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Rewards are becoming a competitive requirement for credit unions, not a peripheral marketing feature.
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