by Michael E. Dehn | Apr 20, 2026 | Banking and media considerations, Business Applications, Crypto considerations and insight, International banking impacts, News of the day, Stablecoins
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/2026/04/17/musks-x-money-how-it-could-win-and-why-it-wont/ Ron Shevlin’s Forbes piece argues that X Money can win on distribution and integration, but that the U.S. environment makes a WeChat-style super app far harder to...
by Michael E. Dehn | Apr 10, 2026 | AI and bank marketing and branding, Banking and finance, Federal Reserve implications, Government impacts and rulings, International banking impacts, News of the day
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15722135/trump-bank-chiefs-ai-model-mythos.html The article’s core risk is that a highly capable AI model could amplify cyberattacks, fraud, and operational disruption for banks, while also increasing...
by Michael E. Dehn | Mar 24, 2026 | Banking and finance, International banking impacts
The article argues that the Iran war–driven energy shock of 2026 primarily threatens US banking and investment through higher and more volatile inflation, weaker growth, and shifting sectoral winners and losers rather than through an immediate financial‐system...
by Michael E. Dehn | Mar 17, 2026 | Banking and finance, Banking and media considerations, Crypto considerations and insight, Fintech insights, Industry news, International banking impacts, Stablecoins
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/mastercard-acquiring-stablecoin-startup-bvnk-in-crypto-bet.html Mastercard’s BVNK deal effectively validates your Metro Pulse® DataWeb thesis: if BVNK is the “stablecoin OS” for global value movement, Metro Pulse is the...
by Michael E. Dehn | Feb 19, 2026 | Banking and finance, Federal Reserve implications, Government impacts and rulings, International banking impacts
Mason Sexton’s “144-Year Master Cycle” essay for Paradigm Pressroom’s 5 Bullets argues that the chaos of the mid‑2020s is the mathematically predictable late stage of a 144‑year monetary order, not random noise, and that this convergence of long and short cycles is...
