About a month ago, Visa and Mastercard both announced they had reached a historic settlement with the merchant community in their almost-20 year legal saga over interchange rates and card rules. It seemed like this case, which has been around for most of the careers of people now

🛬 in San Francisco this week, let me know if you’re around and want to talk about fintech, track days, fatherhood or interdimensional space travel

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Two fintech conferences in SF at the same time - love to see it!

Every weekend should be a 3 day weekend.

Epic.

Incredible writing. Thank you, @jamalichaidani. “It’s a field hospital with no doctors and no war.” “I didn't expect to fall in love with SF, but it's like falling in love with someone who is in the throes of a deep addiction, and you know any relationship would be impossible.“

Save the date for Unite Summit 🏔️ At this invite-only event, we’ll gather leaders who are building the future of embedded finance: banking executives, industry influencers, fintech founders, regulators, and policymakers. Unite is not a sales pitch. Rather, we’ll share

In the last 50 years, every President with an approval rating lower than 45% at this point in their first term was a one term president. Biden's approval rating is now 38% (so was Trump last time, and he lost).

Understatement.

Evolve and Synapse collectively enabled 100+ fintech programs with 10M end-users. Much of that data has been breached. How to protect yourself? • Enable MFA • Unique passwords for each site/app • Use passkey login where possible • Lock credit files • Add fraud alert to

My flight from Amsterdam to DC today apparently hinges on the ability of United to get someone living in western Greenland to go sit in the control tower of Sisimiut Airport while we fly overhead on a Sunday. This seems unlikely.

Heading back to the U.S. today after a great week with our Flagship Advisory Partners team in Amsterdam (one of our four global offices). It was a pleasure to be in Amsterdam again (I lived there ten years ago) and see that it continues to offer a unique blend of history, creativity, and

This is not OK. Why doesn’t anyone seem to care?

Nothing reminds me like I’m back in America quite as much as seeing a $6 charge for luggage carts.

We don’t share pictures of our 15 month old on social media but, thanks to ChatGPT’s anime machine, please enjoy this gem.

People rag on McDonalds but Starbucks has the worst fast food in America. (Coffee is fine, food is consistently disappointing. It’s one of the biggest product-brand disconnects that I can think of.)