Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026
What the fintech newsletters in this directory covered on Banking that week — drawn from 43 posts across 12 newsletters, and nothing else.
American Banker Fintech was the most active publisher on banking topics, covering a wide range of stories including new bank formation efforts by Georgia investors, a bank ID vendor traced to a dark web license sale, international banks' stablecoin plans and OpenPayd's US market entry, a New Mexico bank poised for sale after its owner couldn't repay debts, Citi's use of Swift blockchain to extend tokenized deposits, comments from Pulte calling credit bureaus "cartel-like," a Walmart-linked fintech's expansion into auto lending, tax traps tied to in-kind charitable donations, GAO findings on disclosure gaps from the 2023 bank failures, and an SEC move to nullify a pay-to-play ban for federal contracts. The newsletter also addressed community banks' position in the CLARITY Act debate, comparisons between prediction markets and online betting, potential blacklisting of UAE branches of Banque Misr by US banks, AI-tracked meeting data suggesting advisors aren't the listeners they think they are, Zerohash's refiled trust bank charter application, the death of a Bank
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