Fintech’s having a week. AWS goes down and drags half the industry with it, Aspiration’s cofounder pleads guilty, and suddenly every neobank is realizing their brand reputation might be their real currency.

In this episode of Fintech Stacks, we unpack how cloud dependency became fintech’s biggest single point of failure, what Aspiration’s legal mess means for “mission-driven” banking, and why companies like Stripe and Klarna are building digital defense squads to fight fake news and online attacks.