Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026
What the fintech newsletters in this directory covered on Capital Markets that week — drawn from 8 posts across 6 newsletters, and nothing else.
Crypto and digital assets featured prominently across several newsletters. Stack and Story covered bitcoin ETF flows twice, noting a $3.8B run that still left the category red for 2026, and separately a $731M day tied to a Fed bet. Fintech Futures reported that BitGo bolstered its trading and capital market services through the acquisition of the NYDIG unit. Bankless covered a dispute in which AMC's CEO criticized Robinhood's stock tokens while AMC shares rallied.
Traditional capital markets and payments companies were also covered. American Banker Fintech published two items: one examining how prediction markets resemble online betting, and another on a California bank that ended a waiting period by selling low-yielding bonds. Fintech Radar's issue #173 covered multiple developments, including Stripe walking away from PayPal, Vanguard's purchase of Altruist, and Google entering capital markets, without elaborating further on each.
Linas's Newsletter addressed PayPal and Stripe, noting that PayPal rejected Stripe at $60.50 and now trades at $53, alongside coverage of Affirm's Q4 2026 results, describing a $1.6B profit that is 90% tax-related, a 5.8% figure described as decisive, and a view that AFRM stock is priced for the bull case.
Across these newsletters, the "Capital Markets" tag last week spanned crypto ETF flows and acquisitions, disputes over stock tokenization, bank bond sales, prediction markets, and earnings and stock-price commentary on PayPal, Stripe, and Affirm.
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