Squarespace has expanded beyond website building to offer a growing suite of financial tools for small businesses, including payments, capital, and a new integrated balance account with a Visa debit card.
On the Tearsheet Podcast, director of product Corey Zettler explains the company's build-vs-partner approach, what it's learned from three product launches, and how it plans to deepen its financial services offering for service.
Four big bank developments dominated headlines this week: one focused on small businesses, two on AI innovation, and one quashing an acquisition rumor.
These moves suggest the largest US banks are reorganizing around a thesis: identifying where value is now created and how distant they are from fully internalizing it.
Client–bank relationships have long revolved around a destination model: clients log in, navigate dashboards, export data, assemble insights. Grasshopper Bank is rewriting that dynamic by moving from a destination to a ‘layer’.
The digital bank has launched its MCP server to bridge a critical gap: letting clients use modern AI tools with their financial data without sacrificing banking security or control.
The digital wallet space is crowded, but Paze is betting that consumer trust in banks — not tech giants — is the unlock.
In this episode, Serge Elkiner, General Manager of Paze at Early Warning Services, breaks down how the bank-backed wallet is building toward critical mass through merchant expansion, issuer growth, and a deliberate focus on the consumers other wallets haven't won yet.
Stripe is making moves to dominate every layer of payments, from a potential PayPal acquisition to AI billing tools and stablecoin infrastructure.
Stripe processed $1.9T in volume, its new AI billing tool tracks LLM usage in real time, and its x402 integration lets AI agents send and receive stablecoin payments autonomously.
