How does building a fintech startup work? A step-by-step guide to validation, bank partners, compliance, and funding in the US financial market...
America runs on platforms, from the apps that move your paycheck to the marketplaces that lend to small firms. Platform economics in...
To see how platform economics works, follow a single payment from your phone to a shop and back. Your app, the merchant,...
Buy a couch online and the checkout offers to split it into four payments. Open a ride-hailing app and it hands you...
A US fintech founder spent a recent industry panel describing her product strategy as “five principles, applied in order, every quarter.” The...
If a US consumer could see only one piece of information about a fintech app before deciding to use it, the most...
A US neobank that charges no monthly fee, pays the customer a positive interest rate, and still earns a margin on every...
A single American payroll deposit, $2,500 sent from a Cincinnati employer to an employee in Tampa, can pass through eight separate corporate...
The fintech ecosystem is the hidden network behind every digital payment. See how its layers connect and what it means for US...
Inside Charles Schwab’s San Francisco offices a few years ago, the most productive engineering team did not actually work for Schwab. It...
A Wells Fargo branch on a Tuesday afternoon in suburban Phoenix used to handle roughly eighty walk-in customers a day. Today the...
the rise of fintech infrastructure platforms represents a $150 billion opportunity, according to industry analysis by Boston Consulting Group. Fintech infrastructure providers...
Bank-fintech partnership deals reached a record 1,200 globally in 2024, according to CB Insights’ State of Fintech report. That figure represents a...
Digital banking platform revenue grew 42% year over year in 2025, reaching $28 billion globally, according to Juniper Research’s annual fintech platforms...
Bank spending on fintech partnerships exceeded $27 billion in 2024, according to McKinsey’s Global Banking Annual Review. That figure includes technology licensing...
Global spending on financial technology infrastructure reached $135 billion in 2024, according to Boston Consulting Group. That figure covers the APIs, cloud...
The time required to launch a new financial product has dropped from an average of 18 months in 2015 to under 6...
Financial institutions spent an estimated $650 billion on technology in 2024, according to McKinsey’s Global Banking Annual Review. That figure includes both...
Fintech companies now provide core infrastructure for an estimated 70% of new financial products launched globally, according to a 2025 report by...