Chime on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/chime/Recent content in Chime on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:29:36 +0000Ramp Hits $60B, Chime Buys a Bank, and Robinhood Chain Prints $1.7B a Dayhttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-10-fintech/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:29:36 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-10-fintech/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 million in cash, pulling its banking infrastructure in-house under a national charter. Robinhood Chain, the Arbitrum Orbit L2 for tokenized equities, now shows $1.7 billion in daily DEX volume and $15.5 million in daily app fees. PayPal is letting developers mint application-specific stablecoins backed by PYUSD, and Block has applied for a federal trust bank charter. Meanwhile, only 23% of US consumers trust GenAI to handle payments, and a $240 million bitcoin scam ring has been charged.