Banking

American Banker Fintech published the largest volume of posts last week, covering a wide range of banking topics. These included regulatory and legal matters such as small firms' reactions to the SBA's new size standards, a discrimination suit involving a former US Bank executive, a payment processors lawsuit tied to Florida gambling, and coverage of Warsh's forward guidance stance. The newsletter also touched on cybersecurity in the context of Chinese hacking campaigns, personnel moves like a former Tennessee congressman joining Truist, state-level elections relevant to banks, and business developments including Affirm's growth relative to credit cards, Stripe and Advent's suspended pursuit of PayPal, and Global Payments' small business efforts. Additional items addressed wealth management topics such as Roth IRA conversions after the OBBBA, Edward Jones's hybrid robo-advisor push, a trust unit launch at an Orlando bank, tax-free Social Security withdrawal strategies, and new advisor-focused valuation calculators. The newsletter also reported on Municipal Credit Union's chatbot development, BMO's U.S. profit push, and a Houston check theft case involving postal carriers.

Linas's Newsletter focused heavily on artificial intelligence and its intersection with fintech, publishing multiple posts on Revolut Research and proprietary data as a competitive moat, alongside coverage of Stripe's ownership of a Legal OS startup, Anthropic's IPO pitch, Nvidia's chip purchasing behavior, and questions about paid AI models. The newsletter also covered Revolut's EURR stablecoin, GLM-5.3-Flash's multimodal capabilities, a guide to using Claude Fable 5 for consulting work, and an analysis of Klarna's Q2 2026 growth figures and stock performance.

Other newsletters each addressed a narrower set of topics. Fintech Business Weekly covered Colorado's lawsuit against EarnIn over its business practices. The Signal published on behavioral intelligence topics, including attaching it to organizational goals, budgeting for it, and website data collection. Net Interest covered Guggenheim. Fintech Notebook reported on the Finastra breakup situation. Banking Dive Newsletter covered RTP's international expansion and Treasury's work on quantum-resistant encryption for financial firms. Fintech Snark Tank covered SoFi's checking account strategy. American Banker Fintech, alongside its other coverage, also addressed indebted Americans and settlement services, and pressure on banks from Google and Apple's youth-oriented offerings.

David M. Brear published a post titled "Where the magic happens," and Andrew's Angles covered job specifications as an indicator of communications priorities at large fintech firms. Together with the other newsletters, these posts reflect a week of coverage spanning banking regulation, legal disputes, wealth management, payments, cybersecurity, and a substantial focus on AI's role in fintech.