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Looking much better and in auction.

Its a blue day today for RBD. MMs already moved up.

Good Morning. Hope all are well. Here is hoping to a good day today.

Net worth of $500million.

Https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/how-bots-banking-and-stablecoins-will-dominate-fintech-in-2026

evening chaps.

I've added TRUE to my portfolio from yesterday. Possibly double up from these levels so good luck.

Not too much selling below 6.5p. So lets see if this is the bottom.

Stop losses can be useful, however have not used one is years.

Added PR1 to my portfolio yesterday at around 2p. Not researched it so a bit blind.

Lets see where it goes and i'll take a look tonight.

The fintech environment looking very exciting. Which is why MBO is an essential part of the portfolio.

Https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paypal-stripe-other-fintech-giants-080456699.html

PayPal, Stripe and other fintech giants flex crypto muscles — ‘2026 is going to be massive’

Fintech firms are betting big on crypto in 2026.

“2026 is going to be massive,” Leonid Bashlykov, crypto head of product at Revolut, said on LinkedIn when talking about the neobank’s plans.

A lot of interest here, and RCGH has the launch coming, up.

That article is big for Fintech.

If MBO can incorporate blockchain with virtual banking then its huge.

RGCH are doing their launch this quarter and i think it will be v positive tiddlers like these.

The revolut IPO should add real impetus.

Https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paypal-stripe-other-fintech-giants-080456699.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJSNn24duQc_eQobDjo4OlY6SwIqgaWsSwDMyk-gEzD8-vZLaw0sED-3Gu4tVNMgFOmvRfZoYMa6ARPJ16yWmbAsVwQKFkqp3KMYMA4OIcPRk5JyuIRIteZBnKXIn9-ElUtbodzwY3r0YE6aD0KLuan6rkQPL8_DjAt5RUKHAMBH

PayPal, Stripe and other fintech giants flex crypto muscles — ‘2026 is going to be massive’

Thu, January 8, 2026 at 8:04 AM GMT 4 min read

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Fintech firms are betting big on crypto in 2026.

Having muscled into digital assets like never before in 2025, tech companies operating at the intersection of crypto and old-school finance now plan to strengthen their hold on the $3 trillion market.

“2026 is going to be massive,” Leonid Bashlykov, crypto head of product at Revolut, said on LinkedIn when talking about the neobank’s plans.

From hiring to launching bespoke blockchains, here’s how five of the most influential fintech firms are seizing the day in 2026.

PayPal

PayPal CEO Alex Chriss is busy integrating blockchain solutions across the $56 billion payment giant.

Chriss told Fortune in December that the push comes as the 30-year-old venture must reinvent itself to stay relevant in an ever-changing world.

“If you were to build the payments ecosystem from scratch today, it wouldn’t look like the way it does today,” said Chriss. “You would start to use some sort of blockchain, or some sort of thing that probably looks a lot like stablecoin.”

PayPal is aiming to beef up its crypto team. The company is looking for a senior manager of crypto business development to help it “write the next chapter of money,” according to a recent job posting.

That being said, PayPal is no stranger to digital assets.

It launched its own stablecoin, PYUSD, in 2023. In 2025, the total amount of PYUSD in circulation skyrocketed by 600% to $3.6 billion, according to DefiLlama. It now makes up for 1.6% of the stablecoin market.

Stripe

Stripe is expected to roll out Tempo, its highly anticipated layer 1 blockchain, in 2026, following its December launch on a public testnet.

It’s a bold move for the $106 billion fintech firm, which revealed its crypto ambitions in 2024 through a $1.1 billion acquisition of the stablecoin startup Bridge.

At 7p now.

6.8p to buy.

Having said that don't forget that MBO did 2p to 50p in 2 days. So anything is possible.

Admittedly I did. But the share price needs to settle and reduce volatility.

I made a post of a share i held, the longest. I bought below 1p and it went to 70p over the course of a number of years. I did not sell any even when it went to 70p initially. 1p to 4p, back down to 2p, then up to 7p. Then an rns from 7p to 21p and back down to 8p,.and so on.. up till 70p. If i was a good trader i would of made an absolute mint. I did make a bit but not as much as i expected.

Let MBO find a level that it can settle at so it can make the next leg up.

As expected this is settling between the 7-9 mark. Its a good sign for the medium term as sellers will eventually leave. IMO its the fintech sector this year that will do pretty well.

Some decent buys there today so far. Moving more on the illiquidity aspect.

Good post and some very interesting findings.