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Hey FinTech Fanatic! AI agents are starting to do more than answer questions. They’re beginning to make purchases, change accounts and act on behalf of customers. That creates a pretty big problem for financial institutions: how do you know an AI agent is legitimate,  and that the action it’

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Remember when I mentioned that MNT-Halan was preparing for an IPO? Well, we now know what that IPO might look like. The FinTech unicorn is looking to raise 7.84 billion Egyptian pounds, or around $150 million, through an IPO priced at 24.5 pounds per

Hey FinTech Fanatic! OpenPayd is getting ready to take its next big step: a Nasdaq listing in the U.S. The UK-based payments infrastructure company is in the final stages of its proposed merger with Titan Acquisition Corp., with CEO Iana Dimitrova saying the deal is expected to close

Hey FinTech Fanatic! One of the biggest FinTech stories today is MNT-Halan raising more than $82 million through securitised debt issuances as its active loan portfolio approaches $1 billion. The numbers give you a sense of the scale: MNT-Halan had EGP 46.7 billion ($947 million) in active

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Sibos is officially over.  And wow...there was a lot to keep up with.  AI agents. Stablecoins. Tokenisation. Instant payments. New partnerships. More AI. And enough announcements to make sure nobody's inbox had a quiet week.  I wasn’t in Miami this year, but I’

Hey FinTech Fanatic! One of the biggest FinTech stories today is Kalshi reportedly heading toward a $40 billion valuation in a new funding round. That would be a huge jump from the $22 billion valuation it reached in March, and almost four times the $11 billion valuation from last December.

Hey FinTech Fanatic! One story that caught my attention today is Mastercard’s latest move into agentic commerce. Mastercard is expanding Agent Pay with new trust and intelligence services designed to help banks and merchants understand when an AI agent is making a payment, what it is trying to do,