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102 articles on fintech, AI and M&A markets from M&A House, newest first — market news, analysis, podcasts and reports, each on a page of its own.

October 2026

• BaaS: What the Synapse Shortfall Shows About the Cost of a Missing Ledger
• JPMorgan Tops the 2026 Evident AI Index Again: UBS Is the Only European Bank in the Top 10
• A Banker Wrote Down 12.8% to 17.8%: Where a Discount Rate Comes From
• Two Data Rooms, Four Months Apart: Reading One Real Tender Offer File
• A Tender Offer Runs on Two Clocks: Ten Business Days at a Time
• Cost of Equity for a Fintech: Five Published Premiums, One Date, 249 Basis Points Apart
• OKX Raises Again at $25B: Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered Pay the Same Price ICE Paid in March
• Old Glory Bank Holds 2.69% Capital Against Assets. The FDIC Gave It Two Weeks for a Plan

September 2026

• Outmarket Raises $34.5M Four Months After Its Series A. The $335M Valuation Rests on One Source
• Valley National Pays $340M for Bluevine. What It Is Really Buying Is $2.1B of Cheap Deposits
• EMI License 2026: Guide for UK and EU Electronic Money Institutions
• UK EMI Regime Reforms 2026: Key Changes for Companies
• The Partner Takes 47%: What Banking as a Service Costs One Real Bank
• Polymarket Wants Europe to Call It Finance. I Opened Their Site and Found the Argument.
• How to Outbid PE Without Overpaying
• M&A Playbook for High-Volume Acquisitions
• What Buyers Want and Why M&A Pitches Keep Missing It
• How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It - 20VC with Harry Stebbings
• Daniel Dines on Why Work Processes Not Models Will Be The Most Valuable Asset in AI - 20VC with Harry Stebbings
• Meta's Muse Hits #1 | Menlo Sounds the AI Bubble Alarm | Keith Rabois vs Airwallex: Who is Right? - 20VC with Harry Stebbings
• How a $5B founder is using AI - My First Million
• 7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t - My First Million
• People are doing $100M+ in sales on this app - My First Million
• Sam Altman's coach: no startup fails from lack of effort - My First Million
• ECB to Invest Part of Own Funds in Tokenised Securities via Pontes
• Embedded Finance Revenue Forecast to Reach $617 Billion by 2031
• BlackRock Sees Stablecoins Powering AI Agents, But Demand Has Yet to Arrive
• Europe's Fintechs Discuss Sovereignty While Most Still Rely on American Clouds
• Santander Wins Fed Approval to Acquire Webster Financial
• Shawbrook H1 2026: Profit Rises 16% as AI Reduces Underwriting Costs
• Google Cloud Debuts Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services
• How Banks Can Adopt AI Without Losing Customer Trust
• Revolut Bundles ChatGPT Go Into Paid Plans Through OpenAI Deal
• How Tokenized Private Credit Could Reach $17.5 Billion
• SoFi Becomes First National Bank to Launch Stablecoin Settlement Across Mastercard’s Global Network
• The Become-a-Bank Trend: Why Fintechs Are Seeking Banking Licenses
• Fintechs Conquered Payments in India. Now They’re Eyeing Credit
• Affirm CEO Says AI Underwriting Rollout Did Not Require Staff Cuts
• Sovereign Wealth Funds Help Bridge MENA Growth-Capital Gap, Paymob Says
• Startups Are Still Acquiring Startups, Led by Ultra-High-Valuation Unicorns
• FT Partners & Blue Dot Investors: The Coming FinTech Liquidity Supercycle
• Baselayer Raises $35 Million To Verify AI Agents
• OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna With Lower Costs and Fewer Mistakes
• Five AI Safety Sessions Every Founder Should Have on Their Disrupt 2026 Agenda
• Snorkel AI Triples Valuation to $3.5B as AI Data Demand Booms
• 20VC with Harry Stebbings - Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
• 20VC with Harry Stebbings - Why every startup should be doing this | Speechify Founder & CEO, Cliff Weitzman
• 20VC with Harry Stebbings - The $100 Billion AI Assistant Race That Will Replace Apps on Your Phone
• a16z - What Happens When AI Develops Mathematical Taste?
• All-In Podcast - GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
• Lex Fridman - Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux
• Fintech Takes - Can You Standardize Bank-Fintech Risk?
• Provoke Media - Let's Get Serious About AI
• 11:FS - Singapore puts $173m behind fintechs, Plum picks Upvest, and US regulators tighten th...
• 11:FS - When money moves 24/7, can treasury keep up? With J.P. Morgan
• Cornerstone International Alliance - Building a Business Buyers Will Pay a Premium For (Part 1)
• Flippa - Making Ideas Remarkable & Scaling Ventures with Charles Lee
• GenAI Threatens Investment Firms From Both Sides
• Why Static Fraud Rules Are Failing Growing FinTechs
• Blee Raises $20M to Govern AI Marketing Content
• Mastercard, Backbase Team Up to Accelerate AI-Native Banking
• Chime to Acquire Stride Bank for $590m
• M&A Science - We Signed the LOI. Then the Buyer Cut the Deal Nearly in Half
• Can Synthetic Securitisation Support Economic Growth?
• How One Hedge-Fund Manager Built an AI-Agent-Powered Firm
• Stripe to Buy OpenRouter as Fintech Expands Deeper Into AI
• Jim Cramer Says Investors Are Too Focused on AI Stocks
• Autodesk Acquires AI-Powered VFX Startup Wonder Dynamics
• Monzo and Nest Launch Self-Employed Pension Savings Project
• When Evaluating an M&A Opportunity, Consider the Broader Digital Ecosystem
• Mistral AI Raises $3.5B at $24B Valuation in Record European AI Round
• AI for America’s Small Businesses | Lassie
• Which Investors Have Backed The Most 2026 Unicorns?
• A General Counsel Built An AI Startup For Corporate Legal Teams
• London Stock Exchange Partners With Payward on Tokenized Public Equity Architecture
• The $1.5tn Wealth Shift: Capgemini on the Personalisation Gap
• Meta Debuts Muse AI Agent: Will Consumers Trust It?
• How to Ensure an Ethical Acquisition for Your Startup
• Cross-Border Payments: Out of the Commodity Trap, Into the Future
• Over $1.3bn Raised Across 12 FinTech Deals In A Powerful Week
• Upwind Becomes First Unicorn in Modern Cloud Security
• Multi-Market Growth Is Multiplying Compliance Risk, Fast
• Why Regulators Are Betting Big on Cloud and AI
• Citi Becomes First US Bank to Process Live Swift Ledger Transactions
• OpenAI Confirms Wiki Incident and Plans New Disclosure Framework
• a16z Brings Growth Fund to $8.5B Days After Launching New $1.1B Fund
• Startup ARR Is Less Secure as Enterprise AI Buying Patterns Shift

August 2026

• Stablecoin platform Fasset hits $1bn valuation

July 2026

• Visa, Stripe and 140 Others Back New Open USD Stablecoin to Challenge Tether
• AI Software Development Startup 8090 Nabs $135M Funding Round
• Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 AI Model with Coding, Safety Upgrades
• FV Bank Expands Beyond Digital Banking: Launches Unified Fintech Platform
• Paysafe Research: Experience-Led Spending Reshapes Summer Travel in 2026

June 2026

• UK Fintech and iGaming Are Colliding Faster Than Anyone Expected
• Analyst says Bitcoin may peak sooner than anticipated
• Securing the bottom line: Why integrated payments protection is the new growth strategy
• The a16z Show - The New Rule for Picking AI Winners
• All-In Podcast - The first trillionaire in the world, the Anthropic Fable ban, new oligarchs
• Lex Fridman - Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494
• The Exit Podcast - The Secret to a Multi-Billion Dollar Exit & Why You’re Doing It Wrong
• M&A Science - What really works in integration of M&A | Intel, Coursera, Ansys та UKG
• Tech M&A Podcast - Episode 104: Inside the Deal with Heriberto Garcia