In late 2018, a compliance technology startup called ComplyAdvantage faced a problem common to fintech companies operating in unsexy but essential market...
In February 2015, Monzo did not yet have a banking license, a mobile app, or a single customer. What it had was...
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In March 2019, Adyen’s co-founder Pieter van der Does made an unusual decision for a company that had just posted record revenue...
When Brex launched in 2018 with a corporate credit card for startups, the company entered a market dominated by American Express, which...
In September 2021, Klarna became the official payment partner of the Chicago Bears, placing its logo on the NFL team’s stadium, jersey...
In January 2023, Jaidev Janardana stepped down as CEO of Zopa, the British digital bank, after guiding the company through a transformation...
In October 2019, a relatively unknown British fintech company called Checkout.com closed a 230 million dollar Series A round at a 2...
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In 2017, Ripple Labs faced a credibility crisis that threatened to undermine years of technical development. The company had built a cross-border...
In April 2014, Patrick McKenzie published a 4,000-word essay on Stripe’s company blog explaining why American businesses found it so difficult to...
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On November 8, 2022, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao posted a single tweet announcing that his company would liquidate its holdings of FTT,...
In August 2016, a startup called Wealthsimple ran an experiment that contradicted everything its competitors believed about acquiring high-net-worth customers. Instead of...
In October 2020, Cathie Wood published a 15-page research paper through ARK Invest titled “Big Ideas 2021” that included a section predicting...
In June 2019, Transferwise, now Wise, took out a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times that consisted entirely of a table comparing...
In early 2017, Kabbage co-founder Rob Frohwein faced a growth challenge that his company’s marketing team could not solve through conventional channels....
In 2014, a compliance technology company called Comply Advantage published its first annual report on global financial crime trends. The report was...
In May 2020, during the first months of the pandemic, a small British fintech called Tide faced a crisis that threatened its...