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Past issues

Issue #19: AI Agents to Scale 1000% & Banking Goes (Mr)Beast Mode (11/12/2025)

Issue #18: The Distillery Thanksgiving Special: The Tech Trends to Watch (and Ignore) in 2026 (27/11/2025)

Issue #17: 2026 Tech Trends, Apple's Satellite Expansion & the Bank of England's Stablecoin Rulebook (13/11/2025)

Issue #16: AWS & Microsoft Outages Raise Cloud Questions, as World Bank Eyes ASEAN Digital ID (30/10/2025)

Issue #15: Salesforce & Amazon Push AI Agents, as Revolut Gets Stuck in Limbo (16/10/2025)

Issue #14: Holafly's $500 Million eSIM Boom & SWIFT Embraces Blockchain (02/10/2025)

Issue #13: The $4.3bn Messaging Fraud Threat & UK Plans Stablecoin Caps (18/09/2025)

Issue #12: Texas Cracks Down on SMS & UK Banks Bet £1.8bn on GenAI (04/09/2025)

Issue #11: Monzo Goes Mobile & Thailand's Big Crypto Bet (21/08/2025)

Issue #10: New B2B Payment Trends & Did WhatsApp Just Kill A2P SMS? (07/08/2025)

Issue #9: Airtel Goes After SMS Scammers & the EU Calls Out Crypto (24/07/2025)

Issue #8: Monzo's £21m FCA Fine & AI Goes Deep Sea Spying (10/07/2025)

Issue #7: Robocalling's Terrifying Future & Elon Musk Wants to Be Your Banker (26/06/2025)

Issue #6: The UK's Great Banking AI Experiment & Infobip's Messaging Trends (12/06/2025)

Issue #5: Vodafone-led Partnership to Launch Pay by Bank in Germany (29/05/2025)

Issue #4: MEF & Home Office Plot A2P SMS Fraud Fightback (15/05/2025)

Issue #3: Apple & Meta Fines, CPaaS Trends, and a New Digital ID Monopoly? (01/05/2025)

Issue #2: Vodafone-Three TV, Digital ID, Flying Taxis & Quantum Leaps (17/04/2025)

Issue #1: US Banks Get the Green Light to Go Crypto (03/04/2025)