The stablecoin arm of Stripe recently announced its conditional trust charter approval from the OCC and a partnership with business payments fintech Payoneer.

Bank employees are likely adopting the OpenClaw AI assistant on the sly to boost productivity, but the tool's deep integration exposes networks to cyber threats.

About 70% of bank CEOs said in a recent survey that they are the AI decision makers in their companies. The reasons for this range from the huge impact AI can have on an organization to the fear of missing out. 

The fintech deal market has started to return to pre-pandemic levels, according to recent Pitchbook data, with boosts from big deals like Revolut's fundraises.