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Simon Taylor

Tempo
@sytaylor
Nerd in AI and Finance. Ranting @ fintechbrainfood.com - Views 100% my own
London, UK
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Joined January 2009
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    @sytaylor
    Simon Taylor
    Tempo
    @sytaylor
    Aug 7
    17 of America's biggest banks just put deposits onchain and skipped stablecoins. The reason is a 50-year-old trick, and stablecoins are about to steal it back
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    🧠 Netting is all you need*
    What's better, an instant payment or one that takes two days? You'd think the obvious answer is instant, but it depends who you ask. For a merchant, instant is everything. Today, they often make a...
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  • @sytaylor
    Simon Taylor
    Tempo
    @sytaylor
    15m
    Agree I think the bigger narrative is how AI and payments tokens start to collide with passkeys
    @mewwts
    Mats
    Dune
    @mewwts
    1h
    Might get cancelled for this but I’m very bearish on agentic micropayments.
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  • @sytaylor
    Simon Taylor
    Tempo
    @sytaylor
    57m
    CAPTCHA me if you can Staring an AI deep fake of Leo Dicaprio
    @sharifshameem
    Sharif Shameem
    @sharifshameem
    7h
    Astra has successfully beat all 48 levels of the “I’m Not a Robot” game:
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  • @sytaylor
    Simon Taylor
    Tempo
    @sytaylor
    1h
    🚨 JUST IN: DBS and Citi moved US dollars from Singapore to New York on a Saturday. Tokenized deposits settled on SWIFT's ledger in minutes. This is the second live transaction on SWIFT's ledger (HSBC and Standard Chartered went first in August). Citi says UOB is next this
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    Made with AI
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  • @sytaylor
    Simon Taylor
    Tempo
    @sytaylor
    7h
    Where is the "Please confirm you are a robot" ??
    @jeff_weinstein
    Jeff Weinstein
    Stripe
    @jeff_weinstein
    17h
    this is getting increasingly slapstick. there's a real trust and technical problem to solve across the internet and @stripe can help. if you're a business with a lot of new inbound agent traffic and want to know (with permission!) who the user is behind the agent, plz reach out.
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