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Agentic commerce is HERE📍 Finally... And with that, I couldn't be more excited (and proud of the Basis Theory team!) to launch BT/AI (2.0) - Basis Theory, for agents One secure & compliant platform to handle everything your agent needs from calling APIs to interacting with customer data to making payments 🤖 💳 Available today: 🟢 Agentic Payments - with full support for Visa Intelligent Commerce, Mastercard Agent Pay, Stripe SPTs + Link, Stablecoins and more 🟢 PCI Agent Runtimes - secure access to Vercel, OpenAI, Anthropic, LlamaIndex, Meta or any other model 🟢 Browser Proxy & Aperture 🟢 Agent Credential Proxy Coming soon: 🟡 Managed Auth 🟡 PCI LLM Router Check it out here: https://basistheory.ai/ Shout out Lucas Chociay, James Armstead, Radilson Gomes, Eryn Lueders, Joey Aguirre and all of our partners Tanner Riche Seemal Zaman at Visa, Gene Reda Sherri Haymond at Mastercard, Jeff Weinstein at Stripe, Alchemy, Allowance (YC P26), CartAI, Crossmint, Locus (YC F25), MoonPay, Sponge (YC W26) and more!

We've been building something new Basis Theory 🚀, and the new site is live: https://basistheory.ai Agents are starting to do real work. They buy things, sign in, call APIs, and work with customer data. All of that needs a credential, and right now the easy path is putting a card number, password, or API key somewhere the agent can read it. We want agents to be able to act without ever holding the secret. That's what we're building now: a platform where agents can operate securely. The original credential stays with you, and the agent gets a scoped, revocable credential for one job, in whatever format the destination accepts. The first pieces: - Agentic Payments: an agent can pay without seeing the card https://lnkd.in/dF3ExW92 - PCI Agent Runtimes: run the agent code you already have on card data, inside a PCI Level 1 environment https://lnkd.in/d22_rgAC - Browser Proxy: your browser automation can pay at checkout without the card number ever passing through your code https://lnkd.in/dQZqedNU Coming soon: - Browser Aperture: an agent can shop a site and check out inside the limits you set - Agent Credential Proxy: an agent can call an API without holding the key Managed Auth and a PCI LLM Router are next, with more to come after that. If you're building agents and running into this, I'd love to hear how you're handling it! Happy coding! 🙂

O Brasil jamais será uma democracia decente enquanto tolerar que sua elite burocrática viva como dona do Estado e não como servidora dos cidadãos. Os números não mentem. As instituições que deveriam protegê-los, sim. E quando o colapso vier — e virá —, lembre-se: eles sabiam. Sempre souberam. Apenas escolheram seus privilégios sobre seu país.

A década que começa não será decidida por quem cresce mais rápido, mas por quem se adapta melhor. Sistemas flexíveis continuam em pé. Os rígidos resistem até a realidade forçá-los a mudar — geralmente tarde demais. China enfrenta impossibilidades matemáticas internas enquanto o mundo reorganiza as regras externas. Não é conspiração; é aritmética encontrando história. A matemática sempre vence. A questão é estar do lado certo da equação.

Participating in Bloomberg's Chief Future Officer, alongside our Group Chief Executive Bill Winters, has been a great opportunity to tell the Standard Chartered story. It is a unique tale, 170 years in the making, and is something that we are both deeply passionate about. The episode showcases what we know: that our role as a super connector for our clients, helping to facilitate the flows of trade, capital, and services across an interconnected and agile global network, is extremely valuable. And in a more complicated, multipolar world, our clients need our services even more, a point that is reflected in our strong and consistent performance quarter after quarter. We and all our colleagues around the world are proud of what we have achieved to date, and recognise there is more still to be done. Our Corporate & Investment Bank and wealth management offering are driving sustainably higher returns. Together, they sit at the heart of our proposition, offering cross-border solutions to corporate, institutional and globally-minded Affluent clients. They demonstrate that globalisation is far from diminished. It just moves in different, more diversified ways. We recently announced that we hit our three-year return on tangible equity target a full year in advance and upped our level of ambition. Our strategy is working and is producing results for our shareholders, in service of our clients and markets. Many heartfelt thanks to Anna Edwards, Seth Magalaner, and the Bloomberg team for spending time with us to understand our story and help share why we’re confident about our future growth trajectory. Watch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/ebTZ-VhA #Leadership #Finance #ChiefFutureOfficer

Transition finance is ultimately about energy — how the world meets rapidly growing demand while dramatically reducing emissions. It sits at the heart of decarbonisation and at the centre of long-term economic competitiveness. Across our markets, energy demand is rising fast. Businesses and economies need reliable power to grow - and they also need cleaner, more efficient solutions that will build resilience, helping to facilitate further investment. Balancing these two realities brings both complexity and enormous potential. This is exactly where Standard Chartered plays a distinctive role. We’re a bank built to navigate complexity - across markets, sectors, and technologies — and to convert that complexity into clear, actionable financial solutions. Transition finance sits at the centre of many of our clients’ growth strategies. In our latest video, Ben Daly, Quentin Savinaud, and Sherry Shi outline how we’re helping them to lead in this space, supporting decarbonisation and creating long-term economic value through our unique cross-border and transition finance expertise. #TransitionFinance #energy #CrossBorder

Maybe you need cash to leave a holiday tip, or maybe you just arrived two hours too early for your flight and have some time to kill. Either way, if you’re at the Ontario International Airport and need cash, you can rely on PNC. We’ve expanded our presence to offer the only ATMs in ONT, and you can find them by baggage claim in Terminals 2 and 4. We’re thrilled to partner with another stalwart in the region to help make life a little more #BrilliantlyBoring for residents of the I.E. We might not be able to remove all the stress that holiday travel can bring, but every little bit helps. We’re committed to doing our part.

At PNC, we pride ourselves on being steady and dependable. And while we can't help the flyers who mixed up their holiday travel plans and booked a trip to Ontario, Canada instead of Ontario, California, we can make the travel experience a little smoother for everyone else. PNC has the only ATMs inside the Ontario International Airport, conveniently located in the baggage claim of Terminals 2 and 4. So if you need a bit of extra cash for a last-minute stocking stuffer or to leave a bigger holiday tip, PNC is here to offer dependable retail solutions.

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This is really alarming! 🔎📊 In Germany, most people do not invest their money productively. ✔️ 71% keep their savings in traditional savings accounts - so, 29% of people simply keep cash in their bank accounts ✔️ Only ~20% invest in capital markets such as ETFs or stocks ✔️ And less than 2% invest in private markets This means that almost four out of five people are steadily losing purchasing power to inflation. 📉🔥 And this is even worse: Of the 20% of Germans who invest in capital markets, only around 28% are women. This gender investment gap is something we urgently need to address, as it further widens the gender wealth gap over time. 📚🗞️ On International Women's Day, this is an important reminder that: Women should feel confident about investing. ✨🥂 Research consistently shows that women are excellent investors - they are often less emotional, more strategic and more oriented towards the long term than men. These are exactly the qualities that make great investors. ⚡️🚀 NAO #Startup #Berlin #FinTech #Investing #AssetManagement

Disruptive innovation for your portfolio. Today, I’m in Zurich meeting our partners from ARK Investment Management LLC. 🔎📊 Many thanks to Cathie, Stu, Florian, Thomas and the research team for their super invaluable insights. 🙏✨ NAO #Startup #Berlin #FinTech #PrivateMarkets #AssetManagement

"Who is still using Smalltalk?" I've been asked that question for years, usually with more skepticism than curiosity. The assumption is simple: once the industry stops talking about a technology, it must be fading away. That assumption is wrong. VAST is a Smalltalk-based development platform used to build and maintain long-lived enterprise systems. Smalltalk is one of the original object-oriented languages, and one of its defining traits is a live programming environment where developers work directly with running systems. It powers systems that still perform critical business functions in many of the world's largest enterprises, spanning finance, insurance, healthcare, and government. I’ve seen this from a few angles: customer, engineer, and now CEO of Instantiations. I’ve watched a lot of technologies come and go. Big promises. Big budgets. Big marketing hype. Then silence. Meanwhile, VAST kept doing the work. I've spent years deep in that stack: from VM internals and JIT optimization to developer tooling and OS integration. That is not trendy engineering. It is durable engineering. And durable engineering is what survives after the trend cycle burns through another generation of tools. Being both an engineer and a business owner changes how you see this. Novelty without responsibility creates churn. Stability without evolution creates decay. The discipline between those extremes is understanding where customers actually feel pain, where real value can be created, and where that value supports a commercial case to keep investing. Doing good business brings you more business. Not because you chased the newest architecture. Because you solved problems customers actually had. Real modernization is not about proving you are current. It is about making sure critical systems keep serving the business without losing the knowledge that made them valuable in the first place. I never spent much energy worrying about whether Smalltalk was dead. Plenty of people told me, very confidently, that it was. Many of the articles declaring it dead are now old enough to be legacy systems themselves. I decided it was not. So we kept going. We kept finding people who wanted to do serious work on serious systems. When we couldn't find them, we grew them. We invested in smart, curious people who learned the platform, then invested back into our customers and company. That is how mature technology stays alive. Not by nostalgia. By renewal. AI will accelerate that learning curve. But it will not solve the real risk in long-lived enterprise systems: Knowledge decay. When teams stop understanding a system, replacement starts to look inevitable. Often, the system did not fail. The stewardship did. The technology did not become worthless. The organization stopped doing the hard work of renewal. In enterprise software, endurance is not luck. It is a competitive advantage earned over decades. #ResponsibleEvolution #Smalltalk

🍷 The fine wine market is recovering. Here's what the data actually shows. We've just put together The Market Recovery Collection - a fine wine syndicate built specifically to capture the early stages of what historically follows a correction like the one we have just experienced. A few numbers worth knowing... 📈 Since 2004, every fine wine market reset has been followed by a multi-year expansion. Boom periods average +52% over three years. Busts average -13% over 1.3 years. The asymmetry is persistent and it's the core of the investment thesis. Right now, three things are converging that we haven't seen together since 2022: 1️⃣ Trade prices have risen for two consecutive quarters for the first time in three years. 2️⃣ Bid-to-offer ratios are up 109% year on year 3️⃣ The proportion of investment-grade wines with falling list prices has dropped from 32% to 20%. We built the portfolio using our WIS model - utilising 40.4 million historic price points and 36,000 backtest simulations - targeting the wines most likely to lead the recovery across Burgundy, Champagne, Bordeaux and beyond. Gain diversified exposure to the wine markets from just £3,000. Historic backtested CAGR net of fees is 12%. The full deck is in the comments if you want to go deeper. -- Capital at risk. Fine wine is an unregulated asset class and the value of your portfolio may fall as well as rise. Follow the journey over at WineFi 🍷

No matter the size of your business, too much time is still being invested in manual tasks that no longer need to exist. OTC & Physical trade capture is just one of them. "We’ve seen strong results, with 25 traders booking over 50,000 trades on the platform. This has reduced trade input time by 85%, lowered errors, and improved daily operations.’ That's Darnell Bortz, Director of Natural Gas Trading at Koch Energy Services, describing what changed once trade capture & booking went live on their desk. It's a no-code setup, which is why a proof of concept can be running within days rather than months, connected to the desk's existing chat and ETRM without a development project behind it. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/diYjbkDW

Most people never think about where their energy or food comes from, let alone how it gets traded. For those working in the markets, they know it doesn't just happen. Every trade relies on a complex network of systems, people and touch points. What you've seen us demonstrating for US Natural Gas isn't gas specific. It's the core capability of ipushpull's Chat Data Mining platform: capturing conversational data, understanding what's being agreed, and transforming it into structured, actionable records. Whether it's Oil, Power, Agriculture, Metals or Financials, the asset may change - but the gaps between the conversation and a booked trade has remained largely manual. Until now. https://lnkd.in/e3cwCYkv https://lnkd.in/diYjbkDW

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The crypto markets have been absolutely chaotic these past few weeks. Reflecting back on Token2049, I had an incredible time joining Jack Cullinane at Ripple and Michael Higgins from Hidden Road for a lively stablecoin panel at the vibrant High House overlooking the beautiful Singapore CBD skyline. We dove deep into the increasing demand for stablecoins. At Independent Reserve, we’re witnessing a massive uptick in interest after recent changes in the regulatory landscape. I shared some practical insights on their growing role and offered guidance for institutions eager to explore stablecoin use cases. The fantastic food, exquisite wine, and friendly vibes made the event unforgettable. I would also like to extend my gratitude to the Independent Reserve SG team for surprising me with a birthday cake. #Token2049 #Stablecoins #Crypto #ripple

One of the most frequent questions I field in my role is whether the market cycle has peaked. While I can't offer a definitive answer, there are compelling reasons to remain optimistic about the markets. Two major news events caught my eye this week. The first is J.P. Morgan's endorsement of BTC and ETH as collateral. This move signals institutional recognition of these assets' strength in the same way people use houses as security for a mortgage. In essence, J.P. Morgan can now extend loans backed by digital assets, just as a local bank enables financing with real estate. The second is Mt. Gox postponing its repayment deadline. Though unfortunate for creditors, this delay is bullish for BTC prices, as it defers near-term selling pressure. I also came across a fascinating indicator on CoinMarketCap that tracks sentiment and potential overheating to signal a possible market top. Remarkably, zero out of 30 top signals have triggered. Of course, the market remains influenced by broader global risks and macroeconomic conditions, but there's genuine cause for optimism heading into a strong fourth quarter for cryptocurrencies. After all, Q4 has historically been BTC/USD's strongest period, delivering an astonishing average gain of 57.7% since 2015. Catch up on this week’s top crypto news: https://lnkd.in/gPdYF2nt

״לבחור -משמעו לוותר על כל מה שלא בחרת״ מכירים את המשפט הזה? אז הנה וריאציה שפגשתי בה: ״לבחור כלי AI למפתחים בארגון - משמעו לוותר על כל הכלים שלא בחרת״ בתקופה האחרונה, צצים כמעט בכל יום כלי AI חדשים למפתחים, עם הבטחות מדהימות לשיפור הפרודוקטיביות, שבאופן טבעי רצינו להטמיע בקרב 9,000 המפתחים שלנו ב- Intuit. בתור מי שכבר שנים בודקת ובוחרת עבור עצמי כלי פרודוקטיביות שונים, אני יודעת שזו משימה לא פשוטה. ואם לבחור עבור עצמי זה אתגר, שהרי לבחור עבור אלפי המפתחים שלנו את כלי ה- AI שישרתו אותם הכי טוב - נשמע כמו משימה בלתי אפשרית! בסיפור שלנו, על אימוץ והערכה של כלי AI למפתחים ב Intuit Israel (שהתחיל כבר ב 2023!), שיתפתי היום בשמחה בכנס Geektime גיקטיים Vibe 2025 על הבמה (כן, משם התמונה :) המטריקה הכי מעניינת בעיני היא Code line acceptance rate שזה אומר - כמה אחוזים מתוך שורות הקוד שכלי ה AI הציע, אכן אושרו על ידי המפתח האנושי (ונכנסו ל PR). מטריקה מעניינת נוספת היא Last 7-day active users - כדי לבדוק עד כמה הכלי אכן בשימוש שוטף אצל המפתחים שלנו. ומילה אחרונה על עלויות: ההערכות היום הן שעלות כלי AI למפתח לשנה נעה בין 300-500$ לכלי. עם זאת, צריך לצפות שהמחיר הזה יעלה בחדות: גם כי ברוב המקרים נרצה לתת לעובדים שלנו יותר מכלי אחד וגם מפני שעם הזמן כנראה שכמות צריכת הטוקנים תעלה בקצב מהיר יותר מהירידה במחיר שלהם… ואם מעניין אתכם להשתלב בארגון שמשקיע ברצינות ובעקביות בפלטפורמת הפיתוח שלו, מוזמנים להכיר מקרוב את Intuit Israel: https://lnkd.in/dH4JtUZ3 Shout out to Alex Worden and Amit Kaushal from the CodeAssist group under Tylor Arndt, sharing with me their stories and data. Thank you guys!

לפני כמה ימים, באמצע הקפה של הבוקר במשרד, חברה שואלת אותי: "צופית, מה את מגדירה כהצלחה?" על פניו שאלה פשוטה, לא? אמרתי לה - את תופתעי לשמוע, אבל הצלחה מבחינתי לא קשורה לטייטלים נוצצים, מספרים מרשימים, כפיים, לייקים. בשבילי זה לשים מטרה שאני רוצה - ולעמוד בה. ככה פשוט. בלי "יום אחד", בלי ״כשהילדים יהיו גדולים״, בלי ״אחרי החגים״. ואיך אני עושה את זה? לוקחת מטרה ענקית ומחלקת אותה לתת-מטרות: רוצה לדבר בכנס? קפיצה גדולה מאוד מאזור הנוחות… אז רק אשתתף בסדנה לכתיבת אבסטראקט, אחרי זה רק אשלח אותו, וככה -מפה לשם - מצאתי את עצמי השנה מדברת בשלושה (!) כנסים גדולים. אני רוצה להיות הורה נוכחת ולא לחכות לפנסייה עם טיולים מוגזמים, אבל - איך יוצאים לטיול ענק עם קראוון בארצות הברית עם פעוטות?? מתחילים בקטן (!) - תרמיל וילדה אחת בת חצי שנה ביפן, ממשיכים לטראקים של 8 ק״מ בנחל תבור, אחרי זה מסע באיטליה ומשם הדרך לטיולי קראוונים מהחלומות כבר היתה סלולה. וכל זה לפני שהילדים חגגו 5. ואת יודעת מה? זה טוב לי. כי הצבתי יעד. עשיתי דרך. ואני גאה בה. וזה הדלק שמזין את החלומות הבאים. ומה עוד צריך? מקום עבודה שידע להסתכל על כל הדרך, וגם יכיל את זה שאני מרשה לעצמי פעם בשנה להיעלם לחודש ולטייל. מקום כמו Intuit Israel מוזמנים להיכנס ולהכיר מקרוב: https://lnkd.in/d2Rr2PQg והקפה של הבוקר מה איתו? לפעמים הוא מהמשרד, לפעמים מהבית, ולפעמים עם נוף עוצר נשימה. #IntuitCareers #Mysuccess #WorkLife #Coffee

Every time I sit inside a dealership, one thing becomes obvious fast: Your entire operation lives or dies at the desk. Fast pencils win deals. Slow, inconsistent pencils lose them. After meeting with several dealer groups recently, the pattern is clearer than ever — and the solution is here.

El Informe de Interbanking sobre las Transferencias de Sueldos en Argentina tuvo una gran recepción en los medios de comunicación 📰 Hace una semana lanzamos nuestro 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗼𝘀 y marcó un punto de inflexión para nosotros: nos consolidó como fuente de información clave para entender la dinámica del sistema financiero y su impacto en todas las regiones. Esta iniciativa se suma a nuestros Índices semestrales que ya son un clásico para entender el comportamiento de la industria. Lo desarrollamos con la intención de aportar una mirada más profunda sobre las dinámicas salariales en Argentina… y la repercusión superó todas las expectativas: el informe se multiplicó en medios y portales especializados de todo el país. 🚀 Periodistas y referentes del sector lo tomaron como una nueva fuente para analizar cómo evolucionan los pagos de sueldos según provincia, actividad y tamaño de empresa. Con más de 2,3 millones de transferencias procesadas en nuestra plataforma solo en octubre, el informe refleja de manera muy clara el avance de la digitalización y la bancarización en miles de organizaciones que gestionan sus sueldos a través de Interbanking. Ver cómo esta información trasciende la comunidad #B2B y se instala en la conversación pública reafirma que estamos en el camino correcto: generar datos que aporten valor real al ecosistema financiero y corporativo. Gracias a todos los medios y periodistas por amplificar este trabajo y acompañarnos en la transformación digital del país. 👉 Si todavía no lo viste, acá podés acceder al informe completo en IBCampus: https://lnkd.in/dMJrBtkR #TransferenciasDeSueldos #Interbanking #B2B #TesoreríaDigital

Vamos colocar dois números lado a lado. CAC: o custo para adquirir cada cliente. LTV: o valor que ele gera ao longo do tempo. A conta só fecha se ele ficar. Mas a cada mês, destruímos essa matemática. Tratamos o cliente inadimplente como se ele fosse um ex-cliente. Quando ele é apenas um cliente em pausa. A cobrança agressiva, como scripts robotizados, régua de pressão e tom impessoal, destrói em segundos o que o Marketing investiu meses para construir. A Harvard Business Review é clara: Adquirir um novo cliente custa de 5 a 25 vezes mais do que reter um existente. E aumentar a retenção em 5% pode elevar os lucros de 25% a 95%. A gente insiste em tratar a cobrança como o departamento do fim da linha. Mas ela não é. Comecei nesse setor há 30 anos. E sempre acreditei que a cobrança deveria ser uma extensão do CX. Não o lugar onde o relacionamento morre. Mas onde ele pode ser resgatado. A chave para aumentar LTV pode estar justamente nos clientes que já conquistamos, mas estamos perdendo pela forma como cobramos.

A sua operação passa no teste dos "3 As" da cobrança digital? Vamos auditar sua operação em exatos 30 segundos. Não precisa abrir nenhuma planilha, só responda com honestidade a estas três perguntas: 1. AUTONOMIA (O cliente se serve?) Seu cliente consegue negociar e gerar boleto às 2 da manhã de um domingo? Se a resposta é "não", você gera atrito onde deveria haver fluidez. 2. ADAPTAÇÃO (A régua muda sozinha?) Se o cliente ignora o WhatsApp, sua régua insiste ou muda a estratégia automaticamente? Tecnologia estática já nasce obsoleta. 3. ACOLHIMENTO (O tom é respeitoso?) Sua mensagem gera medo ou alívio? Na hiSofi, tratamos como "clientes em iliquidez", não "devedores". Sem respeito, você perde o LTV. A conta é: se faltar um desses pilares, você não está recuperando crédito. Mas sim perdendo dinheiro. Quer ajuda para implementar os 3 As? Mande DIAGNÓSTICO aqui nos comentários ou conheça nossa tecnologia em: https://www.hisofi.com/.