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😮 What should you listen to next? Fintech can mean everything from payment infrastructure to venture funding. Instead of ranking five very different podcasts, we matched each one with the question it helps answer. ↗️ “What changed in fintech this week?” Fintech Insider by 11:FS Monday news roundups and Thursday deep dives covering banking, payments, crypto, and digital financial services. A good starting point when you want a broad view of the industry. 💵 “Where is banking heading?” Breaking Banks Conversations with bankers, founders, and industry innovators about digital banking, new business models, and the forces reshaping financial services. 🛫 “How are fintech companies built and funded?” Wharton FinTech Podcast A student-led show featuring founders, investors, and industry thinkers. Choose this one for conversations about startups, investment, and the ideas developing across global fintech. 📇 “What are major financial institutions building next?” In the Vault by a16z The a16z Fintech team speaks with financial industry leaders about emerging technologies, strategic decisions, and innovations that could shape the sector’s future. 📈 “What is really happening behind the headlines?” Fintech Business Podcast Jason Mikula and his guests unpack regulation, bank-fintech partnerships, crypto, and industry business models. Best suited to listeners looking for a more analytical, insider perspective. Your next commute now has a syllabus. Which podcast are you starting with? For the practical side of digital finance, explore Capitalist ⚡

🌍 Stablecoins just went mainstream — Mastercard and Western Union bet big on them, while Cloudflare and OpenAI are quietly rewiring how AI agents pay and advertise. ⏩ 1. Mastercard closes $1.8B acquisition of BVNK, Ripple's stablecoin partner Mastercard completed its acquisition of BVNK, a London-based stablecoin infrastructure provider, strengthening its stablecoin payments, payouts, and settlement strategy for banks and fintechs. ⏩ 2. Western Union launches Stablecard with Visa and Rain Western Union and Rain launched Stablecard, a stablecoin-based remittance product integrated directly with the Visa network, working across 37 countries. ⏩ 3. Cloudflare unveils programmable wallets for AI agents Cloudflare introduced Cloudflare Wallets, letting AI agents autonomously pay for APIs and online content using stablecoins — a step toward "agentic commerce." ⏩ 4. OpenAI and Yelp strike official partnership, launch new agentic ad format OpenAI and Yelp signed a deal bringing Yelp's reviews, ratings, and business data into ChatGPT's local search. Separately, OpenAI began testing "Agent" ad campaigns, where clicks open a live conversation with an advertiser's AI agent instead of a website. #digest

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The Capitalist team is flying to Jakarta — we'll be at Indonesia Blockchain Week 2026 on August 12–13 at the Jakarta International Convention Center (JICC), Southeast Asia's largest Web3 summit. 📣 If you're around, come say hi! We're happy to talk about payments, card infrastructure, White Label and API solutions, fintech and Web3 trends — or anything else on your mind. Let's swap contacts and find ways to work together. 📍 Jakarta International Convention Center 📆 August 12–13, 2026 If you want to arrange a meeting, please contact @anna_capitalist. See you in Jakarta! 🟢