The chief product officer of a cross-border payments company sits in a quarterly board meeting. The board wants to know why two...
A compliance officer at a European bank receives a vendor shortlist for a new transaction monitoring system. Five providers made the cut....
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...
In January 2024, the SEC approved 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs. Within hours, fintech companies that had prepared commentary were quoted in Bloomberg,...
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,...
The first article a fintech startup publishes generates almost nothing measurable. A few hundred page views. Perhaps a dozen LinkedIn shares. No...
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...
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, maintains a personal blog and regularly shares articles that influenced his thinking on specific markets. When...
A fintech company’s LinkedIn post reaches 5,000 impressions. A contributed article in American Banker reaches 2,000 readers. By raw numbers, the LinkedIn...
Traditional PR measures success in media placements and audience reach. A press release picked up by 50 outlets is a success. A...
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 2022, Klarna cut its workforce by 10% and saw its valuation drop from $45.6 billion to $6.7 billion. Most companies in...
When Adyen published its analysis of platform payment trends in the American Banker in 2023, the company’s enterprise pipeline grew by 30%...
Nubank spent $8 per customer on acquisition in 2023, while the average Brazilian bank spent $42. Nubank had 100 million customers. At...
Wise changed its name from TransferWise in February 2021 and went public four months later at a $11 billion valuation. The name...
In March 2024, Ramp published an analysis showing that the average US company was paying for 3.2 duplicate software subscriptions it did...
Checkout.com was processing $2 billion in annual payment volume when it started publishing detailed analyses of payment acceptance rates across different European...