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Digital Asset Settlement Just Lost Its Format Problem, as Partior and OpenAssets Prove Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits Can Trade Atomically

August 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Olivia Park

Senior reporter covering payments infrastructure, embedded finance, and treasury technology. Embedded Finance

Embedded Finance

Bond Trading Infrastructure Is Consolidating Into One Platform, as ICE Agrees to Buy MarketAxess for $5.7 Billion

August 2, 2026 4 min read

Theo Aslanian

Staff writer covering banking platforms, fintech regulation, and lending innovation. RegTech

RegTech

The Bank-Fintech Partnership Model Faces a Second Reckoning, as Lineage Bank Draws a New FDIC Consent Order Over Its Synapse-Era Growth

August 1, 2026 5 min read

Olivia Park

Senior reporter covering payments infrastructure, embedded finance, and treasury technology. Payments

Payments

Wholesale Tokenization Crosses Into Real Money, as Lloyds and CaixaBank Settle Live Cross-Border Deposits

July 31, 2026 5 min read

Theo Aslanian

Staff writer covering banking platforms, fintech regulation, and lending innovation. RegTech

RegTech

The Bank-Charter Rush Reaches the Infrastructure Layer, as Increase Buys a Community Bank to Stop Renting One

July 30, 2026 5 min read

Editor

AI in Hiring

The Future of Work

The Quiet Revolution Inside HR: How AI Agents Are Quietly Replacing the Recruiter

In boardrooms across the Fortune 500, autonomous hiring agents now schedule interviews, screen résumés, and negotiate offers — sometimes without a single human in the loop. We spent six months inside the companies leading the shift.

July 29, 2026 12 min read

Theo Aslanian

Staff writer covering banking platforms, fintech regulation, and lending innovation. RegTech

RegTech

Frontier AI Is Forcing Banks Into Collective Cyber Defense, and Singapore’s MAS Just Built the Model

July 29, 2026 5 min read

Theo Aslanian

Staff writer covering banking platforms, fintech regulation, and lending innovation. Payments

Payments

Stablecoin Infrastructure Just Entered Its Patent Era, as Circle Buys the Largest Blockchain Portfolio in the US

July 28, 2026 5 min read

Editor

AI in Hiring

Analysis

Workday’s Bold Bet on the Agentic Workforce

The HR giant's new platform promises to handle 80% of routine people-ops tasks. We tested it.

July 27, 2026 8 min read

Theo Aslanian

Staff writer covering banking platforms, fintech regulation, and lending innovation. RegTech

RegTech

The Bank Charter Rush Reaches AI-Native Underwriting, as Upstart Clears Its First OCC Hurdle

July 27, 2026 5 min read

Olivia Park

Senior reporter covering payments infrastructure, embedded finance, and treasury technology. Embedded Finance

Embedded Finance

Employee Benefits Platforms Are Betting AI Can Outrun Regulatory Drag, and Edenred Just Showed the Math

July 26, 2026 5 min read

Theo Aslanian

Staff writer covering banking platforms, fintech regulation, and lending innovation. RegTech

RegTech

Bank Charters Split Into Two Tracks for Fintechs, as Wise Gets Rejected and Flex Bets on the Industrial Route

July 25, 2026 5 min read