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Elena Vasquez

Fintech Correspondent · Covers Fintech, Payments, Stablecoins · Contact the newsroom

Elena Vasquez covers payments, banking technology, and the fintech companies rebuilding financial plumbing for businesses and consumers.

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StablecoinsA stablecoin transfer button, on 82 million Galaxy devicesOCTOBER 12, 2026

Mobile MoneyLondon's biggest listing in five years opens below its priceOCTOBER 10, 2026

BankingRevolut points its listing at the USOCTOBER 9, 2026

CloudThe Dutch tax office keeps its mail at homeOCTOBER 7, 2026

Data CentersThe forest came down before the assessmentOCTOBER 6, 2026

Layer 2From $3.7m a month in fees to about a thousandOCTOBER 4, 2026

EnforcementNine hundred and fifty million raised, twenty-seven from AmericansSEPTEMBER 30, 2026

StablecoinsThe charter picks the arithmeticSEPTEMBER 26, 2026

StablecoinsTwo hundred and seventy-seven questionsSEPTEMBER 25, 2026

StablecoinsTen days of maturity, and a pile of goldSEPTEMBER 24, 2026

PaymentsSoFi settles its card book in its own coinSEPTEMBER 22, 2026

PaymentsThe payments layer buys its plumbingSEPTEMBER 21, 2026

PaymentsBrazil closes one door to stablecoinsSEPTEMBER 20, 2026

BankingChime buys the bank it was rentingSEPTEMBER 15, 2026

PaymentsIndia's payment rail goes looking for borrowersSEPTEMBER 12, 2026

RegulationIndia's central bank argues against making fintechs into banksSEPTEMBER 11, 2026

PaymentsVisa opens settlement data to DeFi lendersSEPTEMBER 8, 2026

BankingTabaPay buys a bank to close the loopSEPTEMBER 8, 2026

RegulationTreasury drafts the stablecoin perimeterSEPTEMBER 8, 2026

PaymentsThe swipe fee settles, for nowSEPTEMBER 7, 2026

RegulationWages before payday get a rulebookSEPTEMBER 7, 2026

RegulationOpen banking goes back to draftingSEPTEMBER 6, 2026

PaymentsTreasury was built on floatAUGUST 24, 2026

RegulationThe sponsor bank takes the hitAUGUST 23, 2026

LendingEmbedded credit meets its cost of fundsAUGUST 22, 2026

PaymentsInstant payments become table stakes in B2BAUGUST 12, 2026

PaymentsWhen software spends: payments build an authorization layer for AI agentsAUGUST 8, 2026

FintechEmbedded finance finds its natural habitat in vertical softwareAUGUST 5, 2026

TokenizationCorporate treasuries experiment with on-chain operationsJULY 30, 2026

PaymentsCross-Border payments enter a genuine price warJULY 28, 2026

FintechBanks start sharing fraud signals at network speedJULY 14, 2026

StablecoinsDeposit tokens are the banks' answer to stablecoinsJUNE 17, 2026

Institutional CryptoCustody, crypto's safest business, enters a price warMAY 22, 2026

FintechCash-Flow underwriting reaches the credit invisibleMAY 15, 2026

StablecoinsStablecoin Reserve reporting converges on common standardsMARCH 6, 2026

PaymentsCrypto payment rails compound quietly in emerging marketsFEBRUARY 14, 2026