Fintech

Payments when the lights go out

Joachim Samuelsson of CrunchFish discusses different ideas to support digital cash, offline.

Apr 10 • Jame DiBiasio

34:02

What is the agent payments stack?

402. Calling 402! The new global contest for agentic payments, explained.

Apr 1 • Jame DiBiasio

Fragmenting digital finance

Island hopping: innovation is splintering money, so who can put the pieces back together?

Mar 26 • Jame DiBiasio

Repo markets can break a stablecoin

The plumbing matters more than the peg: Part 3

Mar 12 • Jame DiBiasio

A fintech trifecta for VC, with Evan Thorpe

With AI overturning many assumptions, Six Thirty Ventures is on the hunt for fintechs that fit between health, wealth, and privacy.

Mar 3 • Jame DiBiasio

30:15

Stablecoins and the real world of payments

The plumbing matters more than the peg: Part 1

Feb 27 • Jame DiBiasio

China CBDC Yields!

Rich Turrin helps us make sense of Beijing's strategy for the e-RMB, and its relationship with banks, at home and abroad.

Jan 22 • Jame DiBiasio

31:01

Tokenizing China supply-chain assets

Dewu and Evident offer foreign investors new ways to access Chinese real-economy yields.

Jan 20 • Jame DiBiasio

Policy in money: China’s CBDC

This year the e-RMB has been granted new powers: to pay a yield, and to incentivize behavior. This sets a reference point, if not a template, for the…

Jan 15 • Jame DiBiasio

Agentic + P2P Banking: True DeFi

Timo Hotti has done it all in banking: fintech, blockchain, AI. He wants to see true decentralization.

Jan 13 • Jame DiBiasio

36:28

Agentic Open Banking

Jessica Liu, co-founder of Planto, discusses what agentic AI means for open finance and existing data-sharing APIs.

Jan 6 • Jame DiBiasio

30:50

Night of the AI Comet

The stakes for open finance are sky-high as Amazon sues to halt Comet, the agentic AI of Perplexity, from filling orders on its site.

Dec 18, 2025 • Jame DiBiasio

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