
Alpaca Grabs $135M as Tokenized Stocks Need Plumbing
Alpaca raised $135M to scale the custody, clearing and API rails behind tokenized U.S. stocks.
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Alpaca raised $135M to scale the custody, clearing and API rails behind tokenized U.S. stocks.
A 33-year retailer shutdown and stablecoin collaboration reveal institutional capital flowing away from traditional retail into fintech infrastructure
Stablecoin infrastructure is positioning itself as the solution to decades-old cross-border payment inefficiencies rooted in 1970s-era batch processing systems.
Merchants struggle to tap the massive cross-border payments opportunity as infrastructure complexity undermines seemingly simple transactions.
As OpenAI, Amazon, and Apple compete for dominance in AI, the real battleground isn't applications—it's financial infrastructure and payment rails. What's at stake for banks and fintechs.
Standard Chartered's fintech arm enters GSR as first external shareholder, signaling institutional finance's pivot toward blockchain infrastructure and the infrastructure gap haunting crypto markets.
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As global commerce accelerates, chief financial officers confront a painful truth: legacy payment infrastructure can no longer sustain the pace of international business. The reckoning has begun.
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