Retrospective and Refinement of 2025 (Plus prep for the Big Fintech Quiz of the Year!) 📺

A look back at the Top 5 editions of 2025, my favourites in different categories, what to expect next year, and a reminder about the 2025 Fintech Quiz…

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November 2025

The Rise of FintechDevCons (and an Agentic Commerce update)

A deep look at a growing trend for big fintechs, the value of a well executed developer conference, Checkout.com's new releases, and my refreshed…

Nov 7 • 

Jas Shah

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October 2025

The Fintech Product Builders Toolkit

A curated guide of past editions covering the tools, psychology, and frameworks that'll allow you to build products that last, and that customers will…

Oct 24 • 

Jas Shah

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BVNK: Bvnking on Stablecoin

A deep dive tracing BVNK’s journey from 2021 to today, unpacking its product stack, exploring the value of infrastructure, and mapping how stablecoins…

Oct 3 • 

Jas Shah

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August 2025

A Stablecoin Primer: Money for the Digital Age

A deep look at stablecoin, the history of money, how stablecoins remain stable, the different layers supporting this digital currency, how the different…

Aug 29 • 

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Everything’s gonna be AI right? Part 1 [From the Archive]

An AI primer, examples of AI and not-AI, the different types of AI, Fintechs using it in earnest, logical uses in Financial Services and more

Aug 15 • 

Jas Shah

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A Taxing Time for Fintech: JPMorgan, Data Tolls, and the Open Banking Value Chain

An in depth look at the value Open Banking and Aggregators have created, the suspected 'real' reasons JPM are imposing this tax, and context on the…

Aug 1 • 

Jas Shah

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July 2025

Fintech: Under the Hood hits 5k! 🎉

Some reflections, a thank you, and a few of your (and my) all-time favourite reads.

Jul 25 • 

Jas Shah

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Under the Hood🛠 - How SEPA Request to Pay works

A deep dive on a new layer that leads the way for Programmable Payments, the three big use cases, and how it works under the hood.

Jul 11 • 

Jas Shah

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June 2025

The Regulations That Shaped Fintech

A deep look at the historic data, fraud and banking regulations that shaped fintech's past & present, and a detailed look at the recent regulations that…

Jun 27 • 

Jas Shah

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Agentic Commerce Is Here. Agentic Finance Is Next.

Why Agentic Commerce won't kill the checkout page, how agents work, what the Agentic Commerce stack will look like, and looking ahead to Agentic Finance

Jun 13 • 

Jas Shah

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May 2025

Checkout.com: Closing the Payments Acceptance Gap

A deep dive into Checkout.com's origins, timeline, current product stack, their recent releases, analysis of their mission statement, and what I think…

May 30 • 

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