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...
Fintech companies with strong media visibility grow revenue 2.6 times faster than competitors with equivalent products but lower visibility, according to a...
A payments infrastructure company based in London processes transactions across 14 countries. Its product handles currency conversion, compliance checks, and settlement in...
Fintech companies with active thought leadership programmes achieve 3.3 times stronger market presence scores than non-publishing competitors, according to a 2024 Kantar...
When Plaid was a seed-stage startup in 2013, its co-founders published detailed technical articles about banking API infrastructure before the company had...
When Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse published an op-ed in the Financial Times arguing for regulatory clarity on cross-border crypto payments, the article...
When Stripe announced its $6.5 billion Series I raise in March 2023, the funding round generated over 2,000 media articles within 48...
In January 2024, the SEC approved 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs. Within hours, fintech companies that had prepared commentary were quoted in Bloomberg,...
Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe, maintains a personal website with curated reading lists, book recommendations, and essays about technology and economic growth....
When Plaid published its annual “Fintech Effect” report, it did not include a single mention of Plaid’s product. The report surveyed thousands...
HubSpot spent $47 million on content marketing in its first decade and built a business worth over $30 billion. The company’s blog,...
When Revolut was a pre-launch startup in 2014, co-founder Nikolay Storonsky secured an interview with Business Insider that generated several thousand sign-ups...
In 2021, Brex, the corporate card startup, spent millions on a Super Bowl advertisement featuring a talking dog. The ad was entertaining....