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👔 Rick Rieder coul be the next Fed chair
Welcome to Fintech Wire — your quick guide to what’s shaping finance and tech today.
What we’ll cover today:
👔 Rick Rieder in Fed chair talks
📉 Trump’s pressure for deeper rate cuts
🚗 Lendbuzz files $1.5B IPO
🔥 Fintech leaders’ takes on the markets
The White House is looking for a new Fed boss. BlackRock’s bond chief Rick Rieder just interviewed with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
🚨 Breaking News
Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s global bond chief, joins the shortlist for Fed chair as Trump pushes for bigger rate cuts next week.
⚡Wire Simplified
Rieder interviewed with Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Trump wants new Fed leadership and major changes to how it operates.
Other candidates: ex-Fed governors Kevin Warsh, Lawrence Lindsey, and James Bullard.
Unlike past chairs, Rieder isn’t a PhD economist.
Markets expect a 0.25% rate cut next week, but Trump demands more.
✔️ Straight to the Point
Rieder’s candidacy shows Trump wants fresh faces at the Fed. Markets brace for drama: smaller cut expected, Trump wants bigger.
🎤 Who should lead the Fed? |
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Boston-based fintech Lendbuzz, which uses AI to judge car loan borrowers, has filed for an IPO targeting $1.5 billion valuation.
🚨 Breaking News
Lendbuzz joins Klarna and Chime in the fintech IPO wave, aiming for $1.5B valuation with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan backing.
⚡Wire Simplified
Lendbuzz uses alternative data to assess creditworthiness for borrowers with thin credit history.
It funds loans through securitization and banks.
IPO planned with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan as lead bankers.
Klarna and Chime also went public recently, with mixed results.
Investors will decide if Lendbuzz deserves its $1.5B price tag.
✔️ Straight to the Point
Lendbuzz bets big on Wall Street love for fintechs. Question is: will investors bite, or pass like Chime’s IPO?
the way Anthropic fumbled Claude Code
will be remembered as one of the dumbest, most expensive misplays in AI tooling
they had the golden goose
now it's just a ghost
remarkable
— Ahmad (@TheAhmadOsman)
6:58 AM • Sep 14, 2025
the great SaaS die-off is coming and BILLIONS will be made...
people with AI coding are CRANKING out clones of every tool you know. every feature gets copied, undercut, and shipped cheaper.
if you’re running a $1m ARR SaaS with 30% margins, you’re trending toward 0% if you stay
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)
3:05 PM • Sep 13, 2025
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