Author
Reeves Birner
Independent market analyst, sharing data driven insights on financial trends in tech and global economies
Stories by Reeves Birner
Embedded Finance in the US: inside the $148 billion category turning every app into a financial product7 min · Read 
What the Data Shows About Launching a VC Fund Without an MBA or Finance Degree16 min · Read 
Evidence Shows Why Wealth Creation Begins With Value Creation8 min · Read 
AML analytics in 2026: how a $2.9 billion software category guards $3 trillion in daily US bank flows7 min · Read - PropTech in the US: how a $40 billion category is rebuilding the way real estate is bought, leased, and operated7 min · Read
- Financial infrastructure systems in the US: how RTP and FedNow built a two-rail real-time payments backbone6 min · Read
- Financial systems and institutions in the US: how banks, credit unions, and the regulator constellation hold up the system6 min · Read
- Python for finance in US FinTech: adoption benchmarks, talent demand, and what banks are spending6 min · Read
- R for finance inside US FinTech: where it still wins, who is still hiring for it, and what the data says6 min · Read
- APIs in US financial services: 13 billion daily calls, the FDX consolidation, and what slows adoption6 min · Read
- America’s Place in the Global FinTech Landscape, Honestly Mapped5 min · Read
- DeFi in America 2026: Where the Quiet Reset Has Left Real Use Cases Standing6 min · Read
- Tokenization of Assets in America 2026: From Pilot to Plumbing in Capital Markets6 min · Read
- Blockchain for Payments in America 2026: Where the Rails Are Quietly Real6 min · Read
- Stablecoin Mechanisms in America 2026: Why the Reserve Model Won and What Comes Next6 min · Read
- Digital Banking and Neobanks in the U.S. 2026: Where the Profitable Players Now Sit6 min · Read
- BNPL Systems in the U.S. 2026: Where the Category Stopped Being a Gold Rush and Started Being a Business6 min · Read
- Open Banking Infrastructure in the U.S. 2026: How CFPB 1033 Is Reshaping the Plumbing6 min · Read
- Digital Wallet Infrastructure in the U.S. 2026: What the Tap-to-Pay Boom Looks Like Underneath6 min · Read
- Contactless Payments in the U.S. 2026: Why a Slow Country Finally Caught Up6 min · Read
- Peer-to-Peer Payments in the U.S. 2026: Where the Volume, Profit, and Fraud Are Now6 min · Read
Payment Service Providers in the U.S. 2026: How the PSP Stack Got So Crowded6 min · Read - Merchant Services in the U.S. 2026: Why the Old Acquirer Stack Is Finally Cracking6 min · Read
- AI for Financial Decision Making Now Touches Most Major US Bank Workflows6 min · Read
More executive interviews
Founders, CEOs and technology leaders talk about what they build, how they fund it, and where AI, finance and data are taking their industries next.
Terence McMenamin
Pre-IPO Employees: Sell, Hold or Borrow? Techdollar CEO Terence McMenamin on Beating the Lockup Trap
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Grigorii Danileiko
The Secret to Grigorii Danileiko’s Success: Improving the Usability and Reliability of Enterprise Platforms
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Louis Régis
Inside Propr: How Louis Régis Is Taking Perp Prop Trading Onchain
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David Lucatch
GRND.io: David Lucatch on Staking, Rewards & Where Gold Fits Into Web3
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