<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Fintech on BriefTechNews.com</title><link>http://brief-tech-news.com/categories/fintech/</link><description>Recent content in Fintech on BriefTechNews.com</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright &amp;copy;2021 &lt;br&gt; Designed &amp;amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:33:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://brief-tech-news.com/categories/fintech/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B, Anthropic shops a $10B revolver, and Klarna loses a quarter of its value</title><link>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-fintech/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:33:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-fintech/</guid><description>Klarna shares fell nearly 25% after a Germany warning highlighted how thin US trading liquidity can punish foreign fintechs. Stripe closed its largest-ever acquisition, taking OpenRouter and its eight million users behind one API, while telling investors staying private is now a strategic advantage. Anthropic is lining up a $10B+ revolving credit facility ahead of an IPO that could match SpaceX&amp;rsquo;s $75B raise, and Google Cloud, Revolut and Coinbase each shipped new AI or tokenization infrastructure for finance.</description></item><item><title>Washington piles into crypto while Airwallex bets on agents and banks insure against hallucination</title><link>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-fintech/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:12:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-fintech/</guid><description>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 said it will build its own regime if Congress stalls, and the SEC proposed a fundraising framework with a $75 million annual exemption. JPMorgan cut ties with Polymarket in October 2025 over regulatory concerns, a Lloyd&amp;rsquo;s-backed startup began selling up to $10 million in AI-hallucination liability coverage, and Airwallex raised $320 million at an $11 billion valuation to pivot into &amp;ldquo;autonomous finance.&amp;rdquo; Citadel unwound more than 80% of the risk it absorbed from Leopold Aschenbrenner&amp;rsquo;s Situational Awareness fund via $4 billion in block trades, and Ripple priced a $275 million investment-grade bond to fund US prime brokerage.</description></item></channel></rss>