Qapital Research

Vertical Thesis

Draft

Fintech

Payment rails, stablecoin disintermediation, and neobanks getting to durable economics.

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Companies in Coverage

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Sub-themes

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Trail signals (90d)

2026-05-20

Thesis updated

Our thesis

Draft. Three legs: legacy payment networks (Visa/Mastercard) are durable but no longer cheap; stablecoins are a real disintermediation vector with regulatory clarity emerging; neobanks have to prove unit economics now that rates aren't doing the work.

Sub-themes we track

Payment rails

V/MA duopoly economics + stablecoin threat.

Stablecoins / crypto rails

Coinbase as toll bridge, regulatory tailwind.

Neobanks

SoFi, Nu, Wise — who reaches durable double-digit ROE first.

B2B payments

Cross-border + treasury — the unloved compounders.

Indicators we monitor

  • Volumes on V/MA network
  • Stablecoin in-flow / outflow data
  • Neobank cohort retention + revenue-per-user
  • Stablecoin regulatory milestones (GENIUS, MiCA)

Recent trail signals

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