Global fintech investment hit $53 billion in 2025, a 21% increase from the prior year, according to Innovate Finance. After three consecutive...
Global fintech will grow at 18.20% annually from 2025 to 2034, according to Fortune Business Insights, reaching $1.76 trillion by 2034. For...
Europe and North America combined control less than two-thirds of global fintech revenue, yet North America’s 32% share comes with an outsized...
You swipe your contactless card on a London bus and the transaction completes instantly. The payment processor runs the transaction through fintech...
Throughout 2024 and into early 2025, the Bank of England raised interest rates repeatedly, pushing the base rate to 5.25% by August...
While headlines focused on fintech funding slowdowns in 2023 and 2024, the UK fintech sector was quietly generating increasing revenue. Companies weren’t...
For a decade, the conversation about fintech capital had a predictable conclusion: America wins. Silicon Valley and Wall Street commanded the lion’s...
The chief product officer of a cross-border payments company sits in a quarterly board meeting. The board wants to know why two...
In March 2024, OpenAI announced a partnership with Stripe to handle payment processing for ChatGPT’s subscription services, a deal that placed Stripe...
Fintech companies produced 78% of the financial product innovations that reached market in 2025, according to a CB Insights report that tracked...
More than 75% of banks worldwide now list fintech partnerships or in-house fintech development as a top-three strategic priority, according to a...
A mid-sized bank in the Philippines needs to launch a digital savings account within six months. Building the required infrastructure internally would...
Three engineers leave a bank to build an API that automates trade finance document verification. They spend fourteen months building the product,...
An investor reviewing fintech deal flow in early 2026 searches LinkedIn for “embedded lending infrastructure.” Two companies appear in the results. The...
Two payments companies launch in the same year, targeting the same market: cross-border B2B transactions for mid-sized importers. Company A ships a...
A compliance officer at a European bank receives a vendor shortlist for a new transaction monitoring system. Five providers made the cut....
A fintech startup spends eleven months building a compliance-ready lending API. The product works. The documentation is clean. The engineering team has...
A neobank processes a batch of international transfers three hours late on a Friday afternoon. By Saturday morning, screenshots of failed transaction...
A payments startup founder spends her Saturday morning writing a breakdown of cross-border settlement costs. She includes figures from a public central...