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Apple Retakes Top Valuation Spot as Wall Street Rewards Smart AI Spending

July 17, 2026
Apple, AI
Regulators Hear Arguments on Tokenized Stock Ownership
Blockchain // July 13, 2026

Federal regulators are hearing arguments over how stocks should move to blockchain rails, CoinDesk reported Monday (July 13). One of the arguments comes from the Securities Transfer Association (STA), a trade group representing transfer agents and its members, including major Wall Street institutions, according to...

Robinhood CEO Pushes UK to Adopt US-Style Retail Stock Tactics
Markets // July 02, 2026

Robinhood’s CEO says the U.K. should look to the U.S. to increase retail stock ownership. “Think of it as similar to where the US was 30 to 40 years ago,” Vlad Tenev said in a Bloomberg Television interview in London published Thursday (July 2). He cited things like employer-sponsored...

Robinhood Takes On Coinbase as Stock and Crypto Overlap
Cryptocurrency // January 12, 2026

Are Robinhood and Coinbase contemporaries in the digital asset space, or rivals? A report Sunday (Jan. 11) from The Information argues it’s the latter, with the companies increasingly competing head to head: Coinbase is entering the stock trading space, Robinhood is expanding its crypto offering,...

Possible ‘Crypto Winter’ Chills Investors as Bitcoin Continues Fall
Cryptocurrency // December 02, 2025

The winter season starts this month, but bitcoin investors are worried it could be joined by a “crypto winter.” The ongoing downturn in the cryptocurrency market is worsening, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (Dec. 1). Bitcoin, the most popular crypto token, fell more than...

Interviews & Exclusives
FinTech IPO Index Gains 1.4% as Katapult Bounces on Credit Agreement

October 10, 2025
The FinTech IPO Index gathered 1.4% over the past five sessions, as platforms led to the upside ahead of next week’s official start to earnings season. Katapult Holdings shares leaped ahead by 28.2%. The company recently entered into a limited waiver under its Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement dated in June after it […]

Kraken’s Payment Chief Hints at What Will Redefine Crypto’s Role in Financial Services

June 17, 2025
Building the plumbing for the next generation of financial services is the goal of the cryptocurrency sector. Innovations in money movement need infrastructure to scale, and crypto as a service...

Trump’s Tariff Freeze: What Could Have Happened if They Stayed in Place?

April 10, 2025
Hate to say you read it here first, but here’s a prescient quote left on the cutting room floor from PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster’s interview with QED Investors partner Amias...

FinTech IPO Index Breaks Even Despite Volatile Trading Week

September 13, 2024
Economic data remained the key driving force behind stocks this past week, and the FinTech IPO Index was no exception. But despite volatile trading action throughout the group, the Index...

Quick Reads
Apple Retakes Top Valuation Spot as Wall Street Rewards Smart AI Spending

July 17, 2026
Apple has become the world’s most valuable company for the first time since April 2025, overtaking Nvidia, which had held the top spot since June 2025, Reuters reported Friday (July 17). The iPhone maker was valued at $4.88 trillion Friday, with its shares holding steady, while Nvidia’s valuation declined about 3.5% to $4.86 trillion, according […]

Regulators Hear Arguments on Tokenized Stock Ownership

July 13, 2026
Federal regulators are hearing arguments over how stocks should move to blockchain rails, CoinDesk reported Monday (July 13). One of the arguments comes from the Securities Transfer Association (STA), a...

Robinhood CEO Pushes UK to Adopt US-Style Retail Stock Tactics

July 02, 2026
Robinhood’s CEO says the U.K. should look to the U.S. to increase retail stock ownership. “Think of it as similar to where the US was 30 to 40 years ago,” Vlad...

Robinhood Takes On Coinbase as Stock and Crypto Overlap

January 12, 2026
Are Robinhood and Coinbase contemporaries in the digital asset space, or rivals? A report Sunday (Jan. 11) from The Information argues it’s the latter, with the companies increasingly competing head...