Here are the most read news stories from our daily newsletter today:
- NY attorney lasers Bitcoin’s key funding mechanism – Financial Times
- Banking Challengers Starling and Branch Provide Reasons to Break Up with Your Old Bank – Crowdfund Insider
- ‘Digital assets are here to stay’: BNY Mellon embraces crypto – American Banker
- New FDIC CIO: ‘Technology is the best enabler of banking the unbanked’ – Banking Dive
- Fintechs are desperate to reach Gen-Z. Here’s how they’re using social media and influencers like Charli D’Amelio to tap into the next generation of customers – Business Insider
- Green Dot warns bump from stimulus checks was likely a one-off – American Banker
- U.S. Payment Tech Platform Promise Secures More Than $20 Million through Series A Funding Round – Crowdfund Insider
- If it walks like a bank, talks like a bank and smells like a bank, then it’s a bank – The Finanser
- How COVID has Accelerated the Future of SME Lending – The Financial Brand
- Petal Takes In $126.6M Debt Facility To Provide Access To Credit – Crunchbase News