Marcel van Oost

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Your AI assistant is getting a little closer to becoming your financial assistant too. U.S. users can now connect their financial accounts to Grok through Plaid, giving the AI access to their spending, savings, investments, and cash flow data. That means you can ask Grok questions

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Happy Monday! Some pretty big news to kick off the week, and this one comes from a friend of mine in New York. Dee Choubey, founder and former CEO of MoneyLion, has officially come out of stealth with his next act: OpenReserve. And it's not

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Revolut is getting closer to becoming a real bank in the U.S. The fintech has received conditional approval from the OCC for a national bank charter, clearing a major regulatory hurdle on its way to a planned 2027 U.S. launch. That could give Revolut a

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Expanding into the U.S. is one thing. Getting the regulatory infrastructure to actually operate there is another. OpenPayd is making a serious move on that front. The financial infrastructure provider has added 43 U.S. Money Transmitter Licences through the integration of MSB USA, giving its

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Mollie and GoCardless are officially joining forces, creating a payments and financial services group serving more than 350,000 businesses across 30+ markets. What I find interesting is the logic behind the deal: businesses still have cards with one provider, bank payments with another, banking somewhere else,