This week’s Top of Stack connects the dots across AI, finance, and healthcare – surfacing sharp editorial insights and bold client moves, from embedded capital and virtual cards to healthcare access and insurance reform.
Whether you’re positioning your fintech for growth or navigating regulatory headwinds in healthcare and AI, these are the signals shaping reputation, investment, and opportunity.
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News Trends to Watch
AI & Tech
- Axios: Behind the Curtain: The scariest AI reality
- Forbes: Yeah, Yeah, Agentic AI—What You Really Need To Know, Who’s Making It Happen
- Reuters: Tech giants’ indirect emissions rose 150% in three years as AI expands, UN agency says
- The New York Times: Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
Politics and Regulation
- Business Insider: We finally got a detailed look at how America’s businesses are managing through Trump’s tariff whiplash
- Fedscoop: White House AI czar on race with China: ‘We’ve got to let the private sector cook’
- PYMNTS: Stablecoin Bill Set for Congressional Showdown Over 122 Amendments
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Finance & Investment
- Chief Investment Officer: Private Foundation Tax Could Change Charitable Giving
- Financial Times: Private equity firms overhaul exit strategies as IPO market slams shut
- PYMNTS: How Embedded Finance, AI and Automation Are Redefining B2B Payment Networks
Healthcare
- Forbes: Healthcare Access Challenges: The Clinical Connection
- Forbes: Best Health Insurance Companies Of 2025
- KFF: How Will the 2025 Reconciliation Bill Affect the Uninsured Rate in Each State? Allocating CBO’s Estimates of Coverage Loss
- KFF: Understanding the Intersection of Medicaid and Work: An Update
Clients in the News
- Fintech Newscast: Ep 257- Daffy CEO Adam Nash (Daffy)
- The Fintech Times: Fundbox Rebrands to Reflect Partner Support as it Empowers US SMBs (Fundbox)
- Fintech Weekly: From Strategy Rooms to Codebases: Interview with Ben Borodach (april)
- Soar Payments: Modernizing B2B Payments With Virtual Cards – Andrew Jamison (Extend)
- Axios: OatFi lands $24M to unlock credit in B2B payments (Portage Portfolio Company)
- Institutional Real Estate Inc: Sagard Real Estate names Belah Terentjev director, acquisitions (Sagard Real Estate)
- Kiplinger: Direct Indexing Expert Explains How It Can Be a Smarter Way to Invest (Frec)
- TechRound:Experts Share: How Is AI Influencing Advertising? (Avenue Z)
Hot Upcoming Events
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- The Litquidity Classic by Litquidity with hosts Brightwave and Avenue Z on 6/28 in NYC brings together Wall Street’s most influential to face-off in a padel tournament.
Trends move fast. Influence moves faster.
Every signal in this week’s stack points to shifting expectations, rising urgency, and growing white space for those ready to lead. If your brand has a perspective, now’s the time to share it. From newsroom to boardroom, influence favors those who speak early and show up often. We can help you shape the conversation and be heard.
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