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Big congrats to Evan Leaphart and the Kiddie Kredit team on the merger.

Thanks for being part of This Week in Fintech! ♥️

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Visa partnered with Allium Labs to launch the Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard in order to track global stablecoin usage.

U.S. regulators seized Pennsylvania's Republic First Bancorp and agreed to sell it to Fulton Bank.

More weekly news below! 👇

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🇲🇽 We had a great time at this week's Mexico City Fintech Happy Hour.

Want to work with us on our next one? Reach out to @milesnextdoor and Ramon Escobar!

This shows the top US debit card issuers by purchase volume in 2023. See The Bancorp at #6? That’s Chime . In other words, in 11 years Chime has gone from #13,000 to #6.

What’s more, Chime is growing >30% YoY vs. the field which is growing high single digits YoY. That means…

Capital One agreed to acquire Discover for $35.3 billion this year, with JPMorgan reportedly among the suitors. American Express won't be pursing a similar route.

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Fintech boats are the new theme!

We're bringing our canal cruise to London Fintech Week with our friends at @Evervault.

Come set sail with This Week in Fintech on June 13th.

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🗞️This Week in Policy from This Week in Fintech:
European Parliament nods to #AML reg, restricting self-hosted #crypto wallets & #cash transactions🔑💵
Consensys sues U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for oversight of Ethereum Foundation🔗
Visa-Mastercard swipe fee settlement sparks merchant backlash💳
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Chime has ~2x the number of active members (~30M) as the Ethereum ecosystem has in active addresses (~15M)

Yet we hear 100x more about ETH

Guess if Chime were public that might change. But interesting as always how human attention and incentive biases work

SNAP is the largest federally-funded food assistance program in the US.

Despite studies showing the program’s strong positive impact on recipients’ health, only ~350 online retailers accept SNAP vs ~250k brick-and-mortar stores -- why?

New This Week in Fintech:

thisweekinfintech.com/signals-why-do…

Goldman in Talks to Unload GM Credit-Card Partnership to Barclays

Deal including roughly $2 billion of card balances could be struck by summer

wsj.com/finance/goldma…

Great to see everyone at last week's Bangkok Fintech Cruise!

Thank you to Saison Capital and Citi for working with us to bring together the Southeast Asian fintech community.

Another $150M fintech fundraise

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🔥The latest This Week in Fintech UK & Europe is out 🔥

Check out all the latest fintech news across UK & Europe including highlights below and more!

Can you guess the European city?

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