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Google launches new protocol for agent-driven purchases | TechCrunch
Called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), the system is meant to be interoperable between AI platforms, payment systems, and vendors. (2025)
Software power. How India is using digital technology to project power
Narendra Modi sees his country’s digital public infrastructure as an Indian Belt and Road Initiative | Asia Once known as the “India stack”, the... (2023)
The fight over the future of global payments. Financial fragmentation
Digital payments have transformed domestic finance. Now competition is going global. A challenge to the West’s legacy system, including the Visa-Ma... (2023)
Digital Finance: As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance | Special Report
The fight over payments systems is hotting up around the world. There may be surprising winners, says Arjun Ramani | Special report For centurie... (2023)
The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT | The Economist
America’s foes would rush to alternatives, hastening its financial decline | Finance & economics (2022)
Africa’s fintech firms vie for domination | The Economist
As investment pours in, they are expanding across the continent and into new services | Finance & economics (2021)
Govcoins - The digital currencies that matter
Get ready for Fedcoin and the e-euro | Leaders The rise of e-money… (2021)
Fintech comes to America at last | The Economist
The digital payments boom | Leaders (2021)
Tesla Invests $1.5B in Bitcoin, Plans to Accept Crypto Payments - CoinDesk
The announcement that the crypto world has largely been waiting for is here: Tesla has invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin. (2021)
Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1 Billion From Its Investors - The New York Times
The no-fee trading app, which is popular with young investors, has been strained by the high volume of trading this week in stocks such as GameStop. (2021)
Smooth shopping - Klarna, a Swedish payments unicorn, wants to conquer America
The “buy now, pay later” firm has grown rapidly (2020)
Citi Unveils Sneak Preview of The Citi Plex Account by Google Pay | Business Wire
Today, alongside the launch of the redesigned Google Pay in the U.S., Citi shared a sneak preview of the Citi Plex Account, launching on Google Pay in (2020)
In Defense of the IPO, and How to Improve It
To understand why the popular narrative around IPOs is wrong, you have to take apart the IPO process, how stock markets work, and what the “price” ... (2020)
The rise of the financial machines - Masters of the universe - the Economist (2019)
Forget Gordon Gekko. Computers increasingly call the shots in financial markets (2019)
Chuck Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions | Charles Schwab Online Newsroom
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Almost forty five years ago, Chuck Schwab made investing more accessible to all Americans with the concept of low c... (2019)
Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah | Boston Review
Kenya's poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery. "Across conversations in Kenya’s pubs and What... (2019)
Bitcoin Comes to Whole Foods, Major Retailers in Coup for Digital Currency - 2019 - Fortune
Crate and Barrel, Nordstrom and Whole Foods are among major retailers now accepting Bitcoin via a project backed by the Winklevoss twins. “The r... (2019)
Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune - Bloomberg
The first known case of humans going to court over investment losses triggered by autonomous machines will test the limits of liability. Robots ... (2019)
Tech’s raid on the banks - Banking services - The Economist
OVER THE past two decades people across the world have seen digital services transform the economy and their lives. Taxis, films, novels, noodles, ... (2019)
The Square Strategy Teardown - CB Insights Research
How The Point-Of-Sale Fintech Insurgent Is Quietly Turning Itself Into A Full-Service Bank Payments startup Square is moving beyond the registe... (2019)
Bitwage Now Lets Firms Pay Salaried Staff in Crypto - CoinDesk
A new product from Bitwage makes it easier to handle payroll taxes when paying employees in bitcoin or ether. (2019)
Robinhood Checking Moved Fast and Broke - Bloomberg
Also Goldman and 1MDB, prop trading and sovereign crypto. (2018)
BBVA Puts $150 Million Syndicated Loan on Ethereum Blockchain - CoinDesk
Banking giant BBVA has completed a pilot that put a $150 million syndicated loan for Spain's electrical grid operator on the blockchain. (2018)
Under the Hood of Clearing by Robinhood – Robinhood Engineering
Last week, we announced Clearing by Robinhood — the first clearing system built on modern technology, from scratch, to directly integrate with some... (2018)
Crypto Markets Roiled as Traders Question Tether's Dollar Peg - 2018 - Bloomberg
Crypto Markets Roiled as Traders Question Tether's Dollar Peg - 2018 - Bloomberg (2018)
The Big Problem With Machine Learning Algorithms - Trading -- Bloomberg
The potential for tapping new data sets is enormous, but the track record is mixed. "The Eurekahedge AI Hedge Fund Index, which tracks the retur... (2018)
How I Lost My Faith in Private Blockchains - CoinDesk
It remains to be proven if permissioned blockchains provide a real business benefit at all. Take it from one who used to advise banks on them. (2018)
Coinbase’s New Asset Listing Process - 2018 – The Coinbase Blog
Our goal is to rapidly list all assets that meet our standards and are compliant with local law, while providing our customers with the tools to di... (2018)
TransferGo Opens Payments Corridor to India Using Ripple Tech - CoinDesk
Payment provider TransferGo has announced it is launching a remittance corridor to India that uses Ripple technology for near real-time transactions. (2018)
Crypto Trading 101: The Fibonacci Retracements - CoinDesk
CoinDesk unpacks and explains Fibonacci retracements, a tool used to predict potential price support and resistance, for crypto traders. (2018)
Visa Launches AI Agents for Shopping
Visa announced that it is allowing customers to use AI platforms to make purchases and is collaborating with Anthropic, Microsoft Corp, OpenAI and ... (2025)
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
Imagine that financial services could be built like Lego blocks — that developers could easily combine different pieces to discover hundreds of new... (2023)
How Robinhood Makes Money (Jan 2019)
Robinhood, an investing app valued at over $5 billion, says it's trying to "democratize America's financial system" by making investing accessible ... (2020)
How Robinhood Really Makes Money (Dec 2018)
Want to join our free STOCKHUB discord chat? Here is the link https://discord.gg/MkquuN7 After yesterdays video on the Robinhood app 3% savings acc... (2020)
TED talk: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the co... (2018)
What gives a dollar bill its value? - Doug Levinson | TED-Ed
TED-Ed Published on Jun 23, 2014 The value of money is determined by how much (or how little) of it is in circulation. But who makes that dec... (2018)
The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services | a16z
a16z Published on Jan 21, 2018 Traditional banking services have fallen flat for an enormous segment of the population -- whether because they’... (2018)
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech | a16z
a16z, Published on Oct 25, 2017, Financial services startup, or fintech, are innovating across broad categories — in core banking, new financial s... (2017)
How Credit Card Processing Works - Transaction Cycle & 2 Pricing Models
How Credit Card Processing Works : http://www.bancardsales.com How Does Credit Card Processing Work This video explains how credit card payments ar... (2017)
A Brief History of Credit Cards (or What Happens When You Swipe) | a16z
a16z General Partner Alex Rampell helps solve the great mystery of what actually happens when you swipe your credit card?! He takes us from the beg... (2017)
TED talk: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the co... (2017)
How Stripe's COO approaches company building
In this episode of Resources for Humans, Jack sits down with Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer, Claire Hughes Johnson, who spent over a decade at Go... (2018)
Future of ICOs, Cryptocurrency & VC | This Week in Startups
This Week in Startups, E773: Future of ICOs, Cryptocurrency & VC with Brock Pierce (Blockchain Cap, Block.one) & Vinny Lingham (Civic) @ LAUNCH SCA... (2017)
Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)
Listen now (77 min) — Geoff Charles is VP of Product at Ramp—the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time. In today’s podcast, we will discuss:... (2023)
Offshore Finance - What the ‘Pandora Papers’ Mean for Bitcoin - CoinDesk Podcast
Listen to this episode from CoinDesk Podcast Network on Spotify. A new 2.94 terabyte data leak doxes tens of thousands of offshore accounts of prom... (2021)
The Federal Reserve is thinking about a digital dollar - Marketplace
Plus, what shoe sales are telling us about the economic recovery, President Joe Biden is asking federal agencies to gauge the financial risk of cli... (2021)
20VC Podcast: SPACs. What Are They? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape?
Listen to this episode from The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Spotify. Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder & Partner @ ... (2020)
16 Minutes on the News #7: Apple Card, BEC Scams Federal Indictment – Andreessen Horowitz
This is episode #7 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why ... (2019)
a16z Podcast: Fintech for Startups and Incumbents – Andreessen Horowitz
In this episode — which originally aired as a video on YouTube — a16z general partner Alex Rampell (and former fintech entrepreneur as the CEO and ... (2019)
a16z Podcast: All about Stablecoins – Andreessen Horowitz
The history, evolution, and use of money revolves around the important concept of debt: It's what allows us to "time travel" and build toward the f... (2018)
a16z Podcast: Market Shifts – Andreessen Horowitz
NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman runs one of the world’s largest financial services companies, including the NASDAQ stock exchange that’s home to more tha... (2017)
Ramp - Corporate Cards for Startups & New Businesses
Ramp's finance automation platform is a game-changer for startups with a corporate card solution. We provide more than your average business credit... (2023)
Pilot.co - Hire Anywhere | Global payroll, benefits & compliance - pay contractors and employees worldwide
Easily onboard and pay contractors and employees worldwide, in one platform. Pilot is your all-in-one payroll and HR solution for your global team.... (2023)
Splitwise - sharing expenses with anyone
Splitwise is a free tool for friends and roommates to track bills and other shared expenses, so that everyone gets paid back. On the web, iPhone, a... (2022)
Wren | Offset your carbon footprint
Wren helps you calculate and offset your personal carbon emissions through a monthly subscription. (2022)
Frontier - An advance market commitment (AMC) to accelerate carbon removal
Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy an initial $925M of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030. It’s funded by Stripe, Alpha... (2022)
Pilot.com - Bookkeeping and tax for startups and small businesses
Focus on your business, knowing that our expert bookkeepers, aided by software superpowers, are taking care of your books. (2021)
Crypto Trading 101 - full set of guides - CoinDesk
CoinDesk unpacks and explains Fibonacci retracements, a tool used to predict potential price support and resistance, for crypto traders. (2018)