Here are the most read news stories from our daily newsletter today:
- Walmart partners with PayNearMe, Green Dot to launch faster cash bill-pay in August – Banking Dive
- Crypto Lender BlockFi in Talks to Raise Funding at $5 Billion Valuation – The Information
- It’s Official: El Salvador’s Legislature Votes to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender – CoinDesk
- LendingClub Shuffles Executives as it Focuses on Digital Bank Mission – CrowdFund Insider
- Regions buying industrial loan company EnerBank USA – American Banker
- PitchIt Podcast #7: Nathaniel Harley of MANTL – LendAcademy
- A new fintech unicorn: Scalable Capital raises $180m from Tencent – altfi
- Should banks have more technologists than Microsoft? – The Finanser
- Goldman Sachs joins $28 million round in Blockdaemon – Finextra
- Marqeta’s Huge IPO Shows That Fintech’s Boom Will be Sustained by Convenience – Finextra