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The Payments You Don’t See: How Invisible Fintech Is Powering Your Favorite Apps

Alpesh Patel, strategic partnership director at Cartex and a veteran of the global payments industry, unpacks how invisible fintech is reshaping conversion, reliability and revenue across modern apps. With embedded payments now extending far beyond fintech into marketplaces, media and mobility, Patel explains why every company is becoming a payments company, and what it takes to get the infrastructure right.
By Alpesh Patel
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The Future of Crypto Trading Is Hybrid: CeFi and DeFi Unite

Ignacio Aguirre Franco, CMO at Bitget, the world’s largest universal exchange (UEX), examines why the next generation of crypto trading depends on hybrid CeFi-DeFi models. Aguirre Franco explains how interoperability, unified workflows and shared liquidity are enabling safer, more efficient and seamless trading, unlocking the full potential of both traditional and crypto-native assets.
By Ignacio Aguirre Franco
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Why Real-World Utility, Not Meme Coin Mania, Will Drive Crypto’s Next Wave

Maksym Sakharov, group CEO and co-founder of WeFi, examines why the next phase of crypto growth won’t be driven by meme coins or speculative manias, but by the rapid rise of stablecoins, tokenized assets and decentralized on-chain banking. Sakharov argues that real-world payments and robust infrastructure will define crypto’s evolution into a mature parallel financial system.
By Maksym Sakharov
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What Global Businesses Can Learn from Europe’s Long-Game Innovation

By Arturo Bris
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From Profit to Purpose: The Next Generation’s Values Are Rewriting the Rules of Success

By Ted Swimmer
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Inside the Global Race to Build Gold Vaults for the Next Monetary Order

By Mamadou Kwidjim Toure
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RWA Platforms Keep Launching—Then Hitting the Same Regulatory Wall

By Corey Billington
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Decentralizing the Dollar: A Financial System Beyond Washington

By Anurag Arjun
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The New Meaning of “Sustainable Growth” in the Post-A.I. Boom

By Chris Spratling
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The Tokenization Boom Can’t Scale Without Cross-Chain Coordination

By Edwin Mata
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Why Liquidity Risk Is the Overlooked Blind Spot in Institutional Portfolios

By Alex Tsepaev
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Tariffs, Turbulence and Tightropes: The Next Chapter in Global Energy Investment

By Igor Isaev
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Fraud Detection Fails: How Banks Break Trust—and How to Fix It

By Roman Eloshvili
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The Missing Link in Crypto Adoption: Everyday Payment Rails

By Innokenty Isers
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How Institutional Investors Are Redefining Crypto Markets

By Gracy Chen
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Big Tech Is Turning Blockchain Into a Corporate Toll Road

By Arthur Azizov
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Goldman Sachs’ Marco Argenti On Why Early-Career Workers Are Key to A.I. Management

By The Editors
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The Best Crypto Experience Is the One Users Never See

By Innokenty Isers
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Understanding the New Paradigm of Natural Capital Investment

By Dr. Rich Stockdale
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Why “Permanent” Tax Cuts Are a Temporary Advantage for High-Net-Worth Investors

By Spencer Carroll
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The Institutional Era of Crypto Demands New Risk Standards

By Julien Wolff
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Asia’s Fintech Revolution: Mobile Banks Are Reshaping Finance

By Maksym Sakharov
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From Shortcut to Systemic: Why Stablecoins Need Real Infrastructure

By Konstantin Anissimov
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Trust Is the New Innovation: Why Reputation Is Now Fintech’s Most Valuable Currency

By Valentina Drofa
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