<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Plaid on BriefTechNews.com</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/plaid/</link><description>Recent content in Plaid 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, 08 Oct 2026 13:12:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/plaid/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Valon hits $2.3B, Stripe rewires for machine spend, and the CFTC drafts exchange rules</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-08-fintech/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:12:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-08-fintech/</guid><description>Valon closed a $150 million Series D at a $2.3 billion valuation after booking $200 million in ARR over six months, capturing one out of every six US mortgages on its ValonOS platform. Stripe is overhauling its payment primitives for machine-to-machine commerce, promoting Privy CEO Henri Stern to anchor a unified crypto and fiat developer stack. Meanwhile, the CFTC unveiled proposed regulations to force leveraged crypto platforms into a federal supervisory regime, and Modern Treasury applied for an OCC national trust bank charter to unify fiat settlement with stablecoin custody.</description></item></channel></rss>