by Michael E. Dehn | Oct 14, 2026 | Federal Reserve implications, Government impacts and rulings, Industry news
Metro Pulse can be framed as a bipartisan, community-based counterweight to ideological “de-banking”: rather than allowing national banks, hyperlocal gatekeepers, or government-aligned pressure to determine who may participate in the financial system, it grounds...
by Michael E. Dehn | Oct 9, 2026 | Banking and finance, Industry news, News of the day
The Credit Union Advantage: Making Stablecoin Education a Community Relationship Source credit: This commentary builds on Austin Payne’s “The Stablecoin Awareness Gap Is a Leadership Opportunity for Credit Unions,” published by Wide Open Ventures on October 7, 2026,...
by Michael E. Dehn | Oct 6, 2026 | Banking and finance, Government impacts and rulings, Industry news, News of the day
The bond-market pressures described by Graham Stephan can hurt banking and the economy through three linked channels: falling values of existing fixed-rate assets, more expensive funding and refinancing, and weaker demand for credit. The principal risk is not an...
by Michael E. Dehn | Oct 5, 2026 | Banking and finance, Banking and media considerations, Crypto considerations and insight, Fintech insights, Industry news, News of the day, Stablecoins
Simon Taylor’s “Fintech is Dead” is best understood not as an obituary for digital finance, but as a framework for the next banking architecture: AI-driven decisions, tokenized records of value, and agent-mediated distribution. Properly adapted and maintained, the...
by Michael E. Dehn | Sep 30, 2026 | Banking and finance, Industry news, Mindset motivations, News of the day
Attribution and framing The supplied article is “Elon Musk Makes A Move On The Banks,” published by ZeroHedge on September 29, 2026, under the byline Tyler Durden and identified in the text as authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times*. Its central thesis—that...
