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The State of Fintech Venture: What's Growing, Stage by Stage

AI took 86% of US venture dollars in H1. It took 49% of pre-seed. The funding story changes with your stage and your market.

Niall Dennehy

Credit Unions Have a Stablecoin Advantage

Aug 11, 2026

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11 min read

Credit Unions Have a Stablecoin Advantage

Banks Will Struggle to Match

Niall Dennehy

The Great Wealth Transfer Will Be Tokenized

Aug 2, 2026

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9 min read

The Great Wealth Transfer Will Be Tokenized

$124 trillion is about to change hands in America through a settlement system that still runs at the speed of paper

Niall Dennehy

Jul 26, 2026

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7 min read

145 Million Members. $2.5 Trillion

Why Fintech Is Waking Up to Credit Unions

Niall Dennehy

Stripe Does Not Want PayPal. It Wants the Last Mile of the Digital Dollar

Jul 19, 2026

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6 min read

Stripe Does Not Want PayPal. It Wants the Last Mile of the Digital Dollar

Stripe spent fifteen years avoiding the consumer. Its $53.4 billion bid for PayPal changes that.

Niall Dennehy

Jun 25, 2026

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8 min read

Wall Street on the Blockchain

The $4.7 quadrillion market operator bringing securities onchain

Niall Dennehy

We're Raising in Public. It's Buying More Than Capital.

May 30, 2026

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7 min read

We're Raising in Public. It's Buying More Than Capital.

A founder's dispatch from inside a live Spark Venture Funding campaign

Niall Dennehy

A Blueprint for Ireland's Personal Investment Accounts (PIAs)

May 11, 2026

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8 min read

A Blueprint for Ireland's Personal Investment Accounts (PIAs)

How to unlock €172 billion without building another scheme for the wealthy

Niall Dennehy

May 4, 2026

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7 min read

Europe's $24 Trillion Reckoning

Wero, The Digital Euro, and Euro Stablecoins

Niall Dennehy

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The State of Fintech Venture: What's Growing, Stage by Stage

Credit Unions Have a Stablecoin Advantage

The Great Wealth Transfer Will Be Tokenized

145 Million Members. $2.5 Trillion

Stripe Does Not Want PayPal. It Wants the Last Mile of the Digital Dollar

Wall Street on the Blockchain

We're Raising in Public. It's Buying More Than Capital.

A Blueprint for Ireland's Personal Investment Accounts (PIAs)

Europe's $24 Trillion Reckoning

Synaptic Finance