2 Aug 2019

AI Innovation

Lili CTO Liran Zelkha on building AI that disappears

• AI in fintech is shifting from in-app features to ambient, API-driven capabilities embedded in tools customers already use.
• Lili CTO Liran Zelkha discusses building trust into AI design and using AI to bring CFO-level financial intelligence to small business owners.

10-Q

The Week in Market Moves

• This piece tracks notable public company developments through Thursday's close and how markets reacted to them.
• The prior week’s prominent moves came from Wells Fargo, Paymentus, PayPal, SoFi, and Citigroup.

Partner Content, Payments, Podcasts

Stablecoin infrastructure is rewiring cross-border payments 

• Stablecoin rails are maturing into production-ready infrastructure, giving fintechs and enterprises a faster, cheaper path for cross-border payments.
• Regulatory clarity and bundled compliance APIs have lowered the barrier enough that the question is no longer whether to adopt, but where to start.

10-Q, Member Exclusive

Coinbase is building on a dual-engine structure, but trading still sets the tone

• Coinbase is working to expand beyond its crypto identity into a broader financial services platform, but the shift is still too early to call a clean transition story.
• A dual-engine model best captures Coinbase at present: trading is the volatility engine, subscriptions and infrastructure the baseline.

Artificial Intelligence, Member Exclusive, Payments

How agentic commerce is making execution, intent, and credit actionable inside payments

• Agentic commerce is narrowing the gap between execution, intent, and credit within payments.
• Across the payments stack, companies like Stripe, American Express, and Affirm are applying agentic AI to smooth the path from intent to execution.