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Your week in fintech, delivered. 📰

Who gets to control the next era of payments?

Stripe welcomes AI agents. Amazon puts up barriers. Ramp seeks a bank charter.

This Weekly Edition connects eight stories across AI, banking and financial inclusion. A thread 👇

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Money20/20 USA 2026 is over, but which announcements actually mattered, and which fintech trends are overhyped? 👀

@NikMilanovic is joined by @CallMeGillette, @katieeperry and @SashaFintech in The Financial News Network studio to unpack the biggest news, launches and talking points from this year’s conference in Las Vegas.

Among them: a post from Tommy Nicholas, CEO at Alloy, which got fintech talking:

“What if we all just didn't go to Money 2020 next year and agreed to meet in like San Diego or something instead?”

The panel weighs in on the biggest news, hype & hot takes: https://t.co/Y4Yh6CLbmK

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Wow... Sign of the times.

Americans love prediction markets.

🚨 @Kalshi Hits a $40B Valuation in $1B Funding Round

👉Prediction market Kalshi secured $1 billion in new funding led by @Sequoia and @Wellington_Mgmt, catapulting its valuation to $40 billion.

This marks an 82% valuation jump in just five months (up from its $22B valuation following a @coatuemgmt-led round) as the company rapidly moves beyond its core event-trading roots.

A few thoughts:

1️⃣ Expansion into TradFi & Perpetual Futures

Kalshi is expanding directly into traditional financial markets. Following @CFTC approval, the platform launched perpetual futures covering crypto, equity indexes, and metals, aiming directly at traditional exchange giants like @CMEGroup and ICE.

2️⃣ Growing Regulatory Heat

The massive raise comes alongside intense legal pushback.

Utah’s Attorney General recently filed criminal charges against Kalshi and two executives, alleging illegal online gambling operations amid the company’s push to outpace competitors like @Polymarket.

3️⃣ A Broader Shift?

Despite regulatory friction, institutional backing highlights a major trading market shift: prediction platforms are evolving into mainstream, multi-asset derivatives exchanges.

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Real customer. Fake evidence. AI makes it easier.

In a Socure survey, curiosity ranked above financial need among respondents who admitted AI fraud.

@nickster2407 asks: how do you stop false claims without making genuine customers fight for a refund?

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Hummingbird has acquired AML detection company Quantimon to tackle one of compliance's biggest challenges: false positives.

Quantimon reports a 67% reduction in false positives using its technology.

Hummingbird CEO Joe Robinson tells The FNN's @martinezamethys how AI, human oversight and further acquisitions could shape the future of financial crime compliance.

Read the full story: https://t.co/imWdM1ssk1

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This Week in Fintech is now The Financial News Network! Check out the new site, new team additions, and much more.

Congrats @NikMilanovic and team!

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There’s no agenda, just time to meet people, exchange ideas, and see where the conversation takes you.

Whether you’re looking for your next business partner, connecting with potential investors, or catching up with industry peers, we’d love to see you there.

A big thank you to @CMS_law for bringing the fintech community together.

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Congrats @NikMilanovic and the @FNN_HQ team!

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A Bloomberg vet as Editor in Chief. A USA Today reporter on breaking news. Money20/20's video lead behind the camera.

This Week in Fintech is now The Financial News Network, and we're just getting started.

See what comes next at 👉 https://t.co/Js8qwWCH0O

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Big news:

This Week in Fintech is now The Financial News Network - @FNN_HQ.

Same team, same editorial independence, much bigger ambitions. Our new home: https://t.co/8X0UcXlXvs

How we got here and what’s next 🧵

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If AI agents start handling our money, will charitable giving be part of the plan?

The obvious question is how much AI-created wealth will go to charity. @adamnash of @DaffyGiving sees another: what happens when AI moves from giving financial advice to taking action?

🎧 Hear the full conversation on the This Week in Fintech podcast with host @SashaFintech, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Get the full story: https://t.co/n9KtSmYYwG

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Just in: Ripple and Robinhood are partnering to expand RLUSD across retail and institutional finance.

RLUSD is live on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp, with Robinhood app availability planned later this year.

The deal also includes institutional settlement, treasury management and expanded trading and financing through Ripple Prime.

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If an AI agent is supposed to shop anywhere on your behalf, who decides where it can actually go?

Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse. Shopify partnered with it. TWIF reporter @martinezamethys tells @sashafintech why deals between platforms could shape the future of agentic commerce as much as the AI itself.

Then @adamnash of @DaffyGiving discusses making charitable giving more accessible, and whether AI agents could eventually help people give.

🎧 Catch the latest episode: https://t.co/2OgmAZprRU

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Businesses hedge the price of oil. Will they need to do the same for AI compute?

“Compute is becoming more and more of a commodity.”

This week on TWIF Spotlight: Fintech X AI, @Jillwillnyc speaks with @bavaria_kush, Co-founder of @OrnnExchange, about building a financial market for the computing power behind AI.

As businesses depend on more compute, they’ll need to buy capacity, sell what they don’t need and manage changing costs. Ornn is building a compute marketplace and price indices to support that market.

How do you price GPU capacity when the technology keeps changing? Who is already hedging the risk?

Hear how AI demand could create a new asset class and what financial infrastructure it needs.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts👇

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News: Revolut has launched personal loans in the UK, taking on Barclays, Lloyds and HSBC.

Loans range from £2,000 to £25,000, with a wider rollout planned across its 14M UK customers.

Credit cards are next, with mortgages also on the roadmap.

Source: Reuters

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@NikMilanovic @newsient @os7borne You’re caught up. 📰

Go deeper into agentic payments, stablecoins, fintech funding and the deals reshaping financial infrastructure.

Read the full stories on This Week in Fintech:
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Your weekend round-up, delivered. 📰

AI agents and stablecoins are entering more business workflows. Investors and acquirers are backing the tools behind them.

Four articles connecting the launches, funding and deals shaping fintech. Your Monday catch-up 🧵👇

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@nikmilanovic unpacks Money20/20’s product launches and security questions.

@newsient follows the capital behind business finance and trading infrastructure.

@os7borne connects Asia’s record IPO with expanding payment networks.

The announcements, and why they matter. 👇