Top Fintech News Stories for March 9, 2021

Here are the top news stories from our daily newsletter today:

• Banking Brands Don’t Understand What Google Wants – The Financial Brand
• Walmart’s Fintech Ambition: A Super App, Not The ‘Bank Of Walmart’ – Forbes
• Synctera stacks C-Suite to help connect community banks and fintechs – FinLedger
• From Neobanks to Embedded Finance: defining a new future for banking – Finextra
• Key trends in financial services: the pre- and post- pandemic view (free research) – The Finanser
• Chinese Fintech Giant JD Technology Is Reconsidering Potential $3B IPO due to Nationwide Regulatory Crackdown – Crowdfund Insider
• Fed Policy Is Smothering Private Lending – The Wall Street Journal
• There are good reasons for business leaders to invest in bitcoin – The Financial Times
• Mastercard Grows Network Of Tech Partners To Provide Digital Solutions – PYMNTS