What was it like to work inside Elon Musk's DOGE? The cost-cutting initiative promised transparency, but most of its actions have been shrouded in secrecy.For months, there were reports of software engineers and Trump loyalists entering agencies and accessing sensitive data. DOGE also helped the Trump administration lay off thousands of government workers. NPR reporters have been trying for months to get anyone from DOGE to talk on the record. Now, Sahil Lavingia, a former DOGE staffer assign...| NPR
The USDC stablecoin issuer ended its first trading day at a 167% jump from its $31 IPO price.| TechCrunch
Welcome back to Fintech Takes! I’m Alex Johnson, and today we’re unpacking stablecoins with James Wester, co-head of payments research at Javelin Strategy & Research. James isn’t new to the space—he’s led strategic communications for blockchain, crypto, and digital currencies at PayPal (highly relevant to our conversation!) and has been a market research analyst at […]| Fintech Takes
An hour before a scheduled procedural vote in the U.S. Senate on the GENIUS Act, which would establish a federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, the President and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), Rebeca Romero Rainey, issued a statement. The statement begins: On behalf of the nation’s community bankers, ICBA urges the […]| Fintech Takes