Here are the most read news stories from our daily newsletter today:

• How Square’s Alyssa Henry Used The ‘Amazon Playbook’ To Amass A $550 Million Fortune – Forbes
• America’s financial institutions have failed Black and brown communities. Killer Mike has a solution – Fast Company
• OCC conducting review of overdraft policies, acting comptroller says – Banking Dive
• Financial insight platform Zeni raises $34M Series B – finLedger
• Feedzai adds behavioural biometrics to its arsenal with acquisition of Revelock – Finextra
• Neobank launches real-time cryptocurrency conversion – Banking Dive
• Ripple’s blueprint to modernize Europe’s payments infrastructure – American Banker
• Insurtech Hippo Now Valued at $5B after Going Public via SPAC, Company to Focus on Tech, Data, Engineering – CrowdFund Insider
• New CBDC report highlights potential opportunities and challenges of introducing a Central Bank Digital Currency in the U.S. – TearSheet
• DeFi Report from ConsenSys: 2.91M Unique Ethereum Addresses Using Decentralized Finance Protocols in Q2 2021, a 65% Growth from Q1 – CrowdFund Insider