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Adam Willems

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Writer and Reporter at Freelance

Reporter at The Stranger

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  • 2 days ago | heyfuturenexus.com | Adam Willems

    With vestiges of the Biden regulatory interregnum fed into the woodchipper, fintechs, neobanks, and commercial businesses have set their sights on Trumpian banking policy, gauging the feasibility therein to secure banking and pseudo-banking charters in an effort to maximize consumer LTV and, in some cases, further whittle the long-standing boundary between commerce and banking.

  • 2 weeks ago | heyfuturenexus.com | Adam Willems

    Since his swearing in on March 14 as the fifth Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), construction mogul William J. Pulte has executed major policy and personnel changes.

  • 2 weeks ago | heyfuturenexus.com | Adam Willems

    Even the most cursory survey of fintech-focused news headlines paints a concerning picture. Deals are down, public markets (plus global trade) possess the same teeter-tottering volatility as a ride at Six Flags, and major IPOs-to-be have been indefinitely rain-checked.

  • 2 weeks ago | heyfuturenexus.com | Adam Willems

    Being a first mover hinges on timing. Introducing a new product or service before everyone else, leveraging that head start to entrench yourself in the market before others follow suit, requires being first, sure — but timing can also be a double-edged sword. There’s such a thing as being too first, too fast: launching a product before demand for it exists at all, like AT&T’s “Picturephone,” a 1970s predecessor to current video-calling systems.

  • 2 weeks ago | heyfuturenexus.com | Adam Willems

    It all came to a grinding halt three months ago.

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Adam Willems @functionaladam
19 Apr 25

RT @jason_paladino: WaPo just published a letter from Mahmoud Khalil, currently in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana. Gift link in fol…

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Adam Willems @functionaladam
30 Mar 25

RT @simongandrew: One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop y…

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Adam Willems @functionaladam
28 Mar 25

RT @bigblackjacobin: https://t.co/PxeuUdl60f