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The Geopolitics of Fintech and the Iran War
Exploring how money gets caught up in modern warfare
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Why do brands love the FIFA World Cup?
Banks and fintechs are using the tournament to build their profile at home and abroad
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Why you will get surcharged in New Zealand
And other things I learned in Aotearoa
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Can American Express do what Visa and Mastercard cannot? (with agentic commerce)
Understanding the advantages of a closed-loop network for new payment paradigms
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Polygon is ready for agentic commerce
CEO Marc Boiron on why legacy payment infrastructure wasn't built for AI agents, and what can best replace it
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Finally made it back from the other side
Also building and launching payments dashboards
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Thinking and building in fintech with AI
The biggest shift in AI since ChatGPT?
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Resilience and Innovation: Ukraine's Fintech Ecosystem
How did payments infrastructure hold up in the midst of war?
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Dollarising the world — coin by coin
The rise of stablecoins and the startups poised to capitalise
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