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Why you will get surcharged in New Zealand
And other things I learned in Aotearoa
May 20
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Can Revolut compete with American Express?
Jun 2, 2025
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Why Ryanair wants you to Pay by Bank
Sep 24, 2025
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How Geopolitics Shapes Fintech in 2026
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Resilience and Innovation: Ukraine's Fintech Ecosystem
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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
May 12
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How Geopolitics Shapes Fintech in 2026
How almost every trend in payments is shaped by geopolitics. An exploration of chokepoints, resilience, and why fintech is getting messier.
Jan 31
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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
Apr 16
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Finally made it back from the other side
Also building and launching payments dashboards
Apr 13
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Matt Jones
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Thinking and building in fintech with AI
The biggest shift in AI since ChatGPT?
Feb 23
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Matt Jones
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Resilience and Innovation: Ukraine's Fintech Ecosystem
How did payments infrastructure hold up in the midst of war?
Feb 14
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Matt Jones
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Dollarising the world — coin by coin
The rise of digital dollars. Whether governments are ready or not, they are reshaping the financial system.
Feb 8
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Matt Jones
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What's going on with the UK's favourite bank?
The state of Monzo in 2026. Giving away football shirts for a penny and automating your savings. Monzo's marketing isn't like other banks.
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My Most Read Posts of 2025
What resonated and why
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