Marcel van Oost

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a week after Trump signed the Genius Act into law, Tether is already plotting a U.S. return: four years after being booted from New York and slapped with $60 million in fines. This time, the world’s largest

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Two of Wall Street’s biggest names, Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon, took a major step in rewriting how institutional money moves. They’ve launched a platform allowing institutional clients of BNY to buy tokenized money market funds, recorded on Goldman’s blockchain infrastructure. The big idea?

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Airwallex, Mesh, Rapyd, and Revolut just got the green light from Israel’s Securities Authority to operate as licensed payment service providers. This opens the door to a new chapter for Israel's FinTech market. These companies can now expand their services to include transferring funds,

Hey FinTech Fanatic! What is going on with Wise? Taavet Hinrikus, one of the FinTech co-founders who stepped down in 2021 (but still holds a 5.1% stake), is urging shareholders to vote against shifting Wise’s primary listing out of London. He’s raising concerns about transparency, as the

Hey FinTech Fanatic! It’s shaping up to be a rough week for the card giants. Türkiye’s Competition Authority has launched an antitrust investigation into Visa and Mastercard, probing whether they have blocked local payment providers from facilitating international merchant transactions, thereby bypassing their fees. Meanwhile, in the UK,

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Fresh off a wave of AI-driven demand and Apple’s web payment policy shift, Paddle has raised $25M to fuel its next phase of growth. The Merchant of Record platform is doubling down on enterprise features, global expansion, and go-to-market firepower, with a new Austin office and