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...
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...
A compliance officer at a European bank receives a vendor shortlist for a new transaction monitoring system. Five providers made the cut....
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 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 active thought leadership programmes achieve 3.3 times stronger market presence scores than non-publishing competitors, according to a 2024 Kantar...
A payments infrastructure company based in London processes transactions across 14 countries. Its product handles currency conversion, compliance checks, and settlement in...
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...
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,...
In 2021, Brex, the corporate card startup, spent millions on a Super Bowl advertisement featuring a talking dog. The ad was entertaining....
Adyen, the Dutch payment processor, spent just 0.3% of revenue on sales and marketing in 2023 while growing revenue 21% year-over-year. The...
Traditional PR measures success in media placements and audience reach. A press release picked up by 50 outlets is a success. A...
Jamie Dimon publishes a 60-page annual letter to JPMorgan shareholders that takes weeks to prepare. The letter is not required by regulation...
When Brex published its analysis of corporate card spending patterns across 30,000 startups in 2024, the report did not mention Brex’s own...
In 2019, Wells Fargo’s fake accounts scandal had been public knowledge for three years, yet the bank was still losing customers at...