This week’s Top of Stack surfaces signals across AI, banking, and healthcare, along with standout client coverage on topics like embedded tax, virtual cards, and the future of health insurance.
Whether you’re navigating investor expectations, planning your communications strategy, or preparing for Web Summit Vancouver, these are the stories shaping what’s next.
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News Trends to Watch
AI & Tech
- Mashable: What is agentic AI and why is everyone talking about it?
- Financial Times: We still don’t know how much energy AI consumes
Finance & Investment
- WSJ: Jamie Dimon Says Tariffs Might Inflict More Economic Pain Than Investors Realize
- CBS News: Mortgage rates climb back above 7% after Moody’s U.S. debt downgrade
- MarketWatch:Moody’s puts several U.S. regional banks on downgrade review over commercial real-estate concerns
Ranking the Top Digital Banks by AI Visibility
We’ve analyzed 60 fintech Digital Banks / Neobanks to uncover who leads in AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, and why most are falling behind.
Healthcare
- TIME: When Fighting with Your Insurance Company Becomes a Full-Time Job
- Employee Benefits News: Trends in employer provided health insurance premiums coverage
- Healthcare Dive: UnitedHealth downgraded by investment banks
Clients in the News
- Fast Company: Health insurance is fundamentally broken. Here’s how to fix it from the ground up (Ansel)
- Finopotamus: Business Banking – How Virtual Cards Empower Small Businesses (Extend)
- Fintech Front Lines: Embedded Tax – How April is Creating a New Category (April)
- Wealth Management: Investing Platform Seeds Raises $10M in Series A Funding (Portage Portfolio Company)
- LinkedIn’s The Finance Files: Fintech firms continue their push into short-term consumer lending, taking share away from banks (Daffy)
Hot Upcoming Events
- Web Summit Vancouver is taking place in Vancouver from May 27–30, spotlighting innovation across the tech sector.
- WSJ The Future of Everything Festival lands in NYC May 28–29, exploring what’s next in culture, tech, and business.
- WSJ CEO Council Summit NYC also runs May 28–29 in NYC, uniting global leaders to discuss strategy, policy, and growth.
- Stablecon by TWIF NYC closes out the month on May 29 in NYC, diving deep into the future of stablecoins and financial infrastructure.
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