Fintech founders rarely ignore regulation outright. The more common pattern is subtler: they treat regulatory exposure as a moving boundary that can be managed later, once product-market fit, transaction volume, or geographic reach justifies the cost. For a while, that judgment can look rational. The company launches, partners sign, customers arrive, and no regulator objects….
Revolut gets an OCC thumbs up to launch a US bank, but lending ambitions are another issue. Technically, financial technology company Revolut is already a bank across several regions—it holds licenses in the U.K., France, Mexico and Australia. Now, in the U.S. market, it is one step closer to bankhood. The London-based startup announced Thursday…
There is a stretch of about ten days after somebody dies that almost no household has planned for. Not emotionally, which is understandable, but financially, which is fixable. It works like this. Someone dies on a Tuesday. By Thursday the family is expected to make decisions that carry a five figure price tag. By the…
America is betting on stablecoins while other nations favor safer digital currencies. This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. CFOs and corporate treasurers face a dilemma when selecting which digital currencies to use. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are backed by the issuing central bank’s balance sheet and the full…
Gradients can look super different depending on what color space you have them interpolate in. It’s sRGB by default, and there is a decent chance you’ve never even thought about it. But it’s a small syntax change to change that, as Keith Grant documents. One of those is not better than the other. Maybe it’s…
Freelancing is becoming a larger part of the skilled workforce. Upwork’s Future Workforce Index found that skilled freelancing grew from 28% of skilled knowledge workers in 2025 to 38% in 2026. As more people take on independent work, more freelancers are signing client contracts without a legal background. The right contract can protect your pay,…
August employment report brings mixed blessings for the U.S. economy. U.S. employers added a robust 162,000 jobs in August, signaling an employment rebound, even as finance-sector jobs declined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Employment Situation Summary. The sectors with the most job growth were leisure/hospitality (62,000 jobs), government (35,000 jobs), private education/health services…
‘For us, moderation is one component of a much larger picture. The real question is how technology can help publishers produce, distribute, moderate and monetise social content much more efficiently.’– Henning Rosenstengel, co-founder and CEO: MainSent; managing director: Ippen Digital social media business unit For the better part of the past decade, most publishers have…
Combining finances does not have to mean combining every dollar. For many couples, the better arrangement is a shared financial layer: both people know how household bills are being handled, both contribute toward common goals, and both can still keep some spending and accounts separate. A household money system is simply a set of rules…
By Branko Brkic World News Day, 28 September 2026 In my life I have watched communities, organisations, and entire countries lose their grip on truth. I was just starting my book publishing career in Yugoslavia in the mid-’80s when the shared facts that held our society together for 40 years came apart, piece by piece,…