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    The We Are Not a Financial Product Era Is Ending

    A generation of fintechs was built on one sentence: we are not a financial product. That sentence was always an argument rather than a fact, and the perimeter it relies on is widening. BNPL, payments licensing reform and the digital assets regime are three chapters of the same story.

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