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The Payments You Don’t See: How Invisible Fintech Is Powering Your Favorite Apps

Alpesh Patel, strategic partnership director at Cartex and a veteran of the global payments industry, unpacks how invisible fintech is reshaping conversion, reliability and revenue across modern apps. With embedded payments now extending far beyond fintech into marketplaces, media and mobility, Patel explains why every company is becoming a payments company, and what it takes to get the infrastructure right.
By Alpesh Patel
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The Future of Crypto Trading Is Hybrid: CeFi and DeFi Unite

Ignacio Aguirre Franco, CMO at Bitget, the world’s largest universal exchange (UEX), examines why the next generation of crypto trading depends on hybrid CeFi-DeFi models. Aguirre Franco explains how interoperability, unified workflows and shared liquidity are enabling safer, more efficient and seamless trading, unlocking the full potential of both traditional and crypto-native assets.
By Ignacio Aguirre Franco
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Why Real-World Utility, Not Meme Coin Mania, Will Drive Crypto’s Next Wave

Maksym Sakharov, group CEO and co-founder of WeFi, examines why the next phase of crypto growth won’t be driven by meme coins or speculative manias, but by the rapid rise of stablecoins, tokenized assets and decentralized on-chain banking. Sakharov argues that real-world payments and robust infrastructure will define crypto’s evolution into a mature parallel financial system.
By Maksym Sakharov
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Regulators Start the Clock, Engineers Build the Rails: Can the Creator Economy Scale?

By Murad Salikhov
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A Hedge Against Instability: Private Markets Are Replacing Traditional Safe Havens

By Julien Wolff
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The Next Generation’s Declaration of Economic Independence

By Roy Swan
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The Positive-Sum Revolution: Dismantling the Myth of Zero-Sum Economics

By Roy Swan
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Markets in Flux: Geopolitics Redraws the Map of Global Investing in 2025

By Julia Khandoshko
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The Great Exit Crisis: The Succession Planning Gap in Small Business

By Mark Valentino
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The New Safe Haven: How High-Net-Worth Investors Are Rethinking Liquidity In 2025

By Eugenia Mykuliak
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Crude Realities: Energy Markets Are Betting on Chaos

By Igor Isaev
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Blockchain Comes to USAID. Will It Survive Washington?

By Arthur Azizov
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Michael Porter’s Cure for America’s Self-Inflicted Economic Wounds

By Roy Swan
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Major Banks’ Private Credit Push Is Reshaping Modern Corporate Finance

By Vincent Curotto
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Fintech’s Gender Gap: Why Progress Isn’t Moving Fast Enough

By Valentina Drofa
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The Smartest Investment: How ‘Quality Jobs’ Drive Profits

By Roy Swan
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Private Credit’s Big Squeeze: How the Arms Race for Scale Is Reshaping the Market

By Vincent Curotto
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An American Sovereign Wealth Fund Could Be the Missing Piece in Supporting Working Families

By Roy Swan
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Weathering the Market: Why Climate Data Is the Future of Commodity Trading

By Igor Isaev
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The Price of Fairness: How DEI Can Fuel America’s Economic Revival

By Roy Swan
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What Heirs Need to Know to Establish a Lasting Inheritance

By Charline Burgess
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The Battle Against Fraud and Money Laundering: How Can Banks Stay Ahead?

By Roman Eloshvili
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Why Are We Miserable? The Hidden Impact of Perception and Inequality

By Roy Swan
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Elevating Women in Leadership: An Allyship Guide for Men

By Trish Dyl and Sasha Krstic
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