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Stripe Buys Parafin, Robinhood Ships Trading Agents, and 23-Hour Equities Arrive
Stripe has agreed to acquire embedded lending infrastructure provider Parafin to bring programmatic credit directly to its 18,000 platform clients. Robinhood …
Kalshi Eyes $40B Valuation, Stripe Preps Tempo, and Apple Pay Lands in India
Kalshi is in talks to raise $1 billion at a staggering $40 billion valuation as prediction markets transition into full-scale financial exchanges. Apple Pay …
Monzo's £10B Nubank talks, Muse vs. Amazon, and ACH's quiet takeover
Monzo is in early talks with Brazil's Nubank about a £8-10 billion sale, a deal that would hand the UK neobank's 16 million customers to a Brazilian parent and …
Ramp's AR Push, Muse Buys on Shopify, and the CLARITY Act's Death
Ramp launched Accounts Receivable to close the contract-to-cash loop, going head-to-head with the ERP integrations that slow down collections. Shopify will let …
SEC Greenlights Tokenized Stocks as Stripe Shows the SaaS-Pocalypse Never Came
The SEC is preparing to allow public companies to issue tokenized shares, a first for US capital markets, with dividends and voting rights traveling on-chain. …
Klarna Leases Your Next iPhone, Robinhood Wants Your Vote, and Tabby Is Worth $6.5B
Klarna is now powering Apple's US device leasing program, financing the $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo and $1,199 iPhone 18 Pro on 12- or 24-month terms, a major …
OpenAI's Banking Bot, Chime Buys a Bank, and the Stablecoin Flood
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a GPT-6 Astra-powered tool built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore that automates junior banker work like …
Ramp Hits $60B, Chime Buys a Bank, and Robinhood Chain Prints $1.7B a Day
Ramp is in early talks to raise $1 billion at a $60 billion valuation, up from $44 billion just three months ago. Chime agreed to buy Stride Bank for $590 …
Revolut gets a US charter, Anthropic bulks up to $15B
Revolut cleared the OCC for a national bank charter and plans a $95M Connecticut launch in H1 2027. The same morning, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Google all had …
Kalshi goes to Flushing Meadows, banks rush a stablecoin, Bolt begs for cash
Prediction market Kalshi signed a multi-year deal to become the first official prediction-market partner of the US Open, with tennis trading volume reportedly …
Stripe and Advent walk away from a $53B PayPal bid; Walmart flips on Apple Pay
Stripe and Advent International have abandoned their pursuit of a $50B+ acquisition of PayPal after the board rejected their $60.50-per-share offer, sending …
Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B, Anthropic shops a $10B revolver, and Klarna loses a quarter of its value
Klarna shares fell nearly 25% after a Germany warning highlighted how thin US trading liquidity can punish foreign fintechs. Stripe closed its largest-ever …
Washington piles into crypto while Airwallex bets on agents and banks insure against hallucination
Washington escalated its crypto push in a single week: Trump hosted Coinbase, a16z, Ripple, and Kraken at the White House to lobby for the CLARITY Act, the CFTC …