Here are the most read news stories from our daily newsletter today:
- Sales soar at Klarna rival Laybuy as buy-now-pay-later sector hots up – AltFi
- Mainstream DeFi is ‘inevitable’: US currency comptroller – Cointelegraph
- Ant Group Moves Ahead With $35B IPO After China’s OK – PYMNTS
- JPMorgan Chase Takes Aim at Square and PayPal With a New Payments Service – Barrons
- Why Central Banks Want to Create Their Own Digital Currencies Like Bitcoin – The Wall Street Journal
- Visa Launches “Visa Tap to Phone” in More Than 15 Markets With Plans to Expand into the U.S. – Crowdfund Insider
- How PayPal’s approach to crypto breaks with precedent – American Banker
- Asset managers in $300bn drive to build private lending funds – Financial Times
- What really happened between Monzo and Starling: Anne Boden set to recount in new book – Sifted
- The end of free bank accounts is bad news for Monzo and its rivals – Wired