Posted by Alumni from Substack
January 29, 2026
' Hey, Linas here! Welcome to another special issue of my daily newsletter. Each day, I focus on 3 stories that are making a difference in the financial technology space. Coupled with things worth watching & the most important money movements, it's the only newsletter you need for all things when Finance meets Tech. If you're reading this for the first time, it's a brilliant opportunity to join a community of 370k+ FinTech leaders: All of them became launch partners for Anthropic's MCP Apps, a feature that lets Claude render their interfaces directly inside the chat window. Users can now drag Asana tasks, edit Figma diagrams, query Amplitude charts, and send Slack messages without ever leaving Claude. For two decades, SaaS has bundled three things: data, logic, and interface. The interface was the moat. Users learned your workflows, memorized your shortcuts, and built muscle memory around your menus. Switching costs weren't just about data migration - they were about cognitive... learn more